Häxkapell leans into a sound that is unmistakably Scandinavian. But Om jordens blod och urgravens grepp is also a black metal album that pays attention to making most of the trek through this earthy forest path memorable. Can its sadboi chords cast a spell on you?
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This Week In Metal, 2024 Week 45
Another week, another round of metal reviews in the bag. Words are tough, so we assembled the highlights. And if you want to read the latest reviews for the new offerings from The Black Dahlia Murder, Iotunn, Swallow the Sun, Ephialtes, and Morticide, you can do that too! Melodeath for all!
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Swallow the Sun – Shining Review
The deathly doom metal of Swallow the Sun used to be offset with moments of cold beauty and increasingly pop oriented vocal lines, that still managed to feel like a fresh breath visible in the chill air. This has been turned on its head on Shining, a move that in hindsight was well telegraphed over the last two albums the band put out.
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Infestus – Entzweiung Review
Entzweiung is a mix of black metal and post metal that seeks to find the grandest, coldest ideas from both. The word “brooding” springs to mind repeatedly. The result is a set of songs that gradually but surely build into soul-scraping fury — let them infest your ears.
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Crypts of the Unknown: Bergraven – Det Framlidna Minnet
Join us as Metalligator reminisces on Bergraven’s 2019 release Det framlidna minnet. Oh, never heard of it? Well here in the Crypts we specialize in the unknown, the uncelebrated, and the uncovered, no matter how recent or distant. We can’t keep all our dirty little secrets… Yeah, these dusty dips may not be perfect, but how would you know?
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Eden’s Decay – Innerfeind Review
I picked out Eden’s Decay because it sounded suitably dramatic and moody. I prepared myself to be underwhelmed, and hit play. From the first notes of Innerfeind though, I knew I had something—probably because it doesn’t sound much like what most people call melodeath. Perhaps sometimes blossoms spring from decay.
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Metalligator’s Favorite Albums of 2023
The Goat Review presents an annual special: Metalligator’s Favorite Albums of 2023. Find out what our resident artist/writer deems worthy.
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Undulation – An Unhealthy Interest in Suffering Review
Undulation got cred from the hipster-ish side of the metal internet, and they frankly do check out all the boxes. For a Death Metal Band, they are more emotionally driven and the female vocalist does a lot to sell it. Scuttlegoat has an unhealthy interest in Death Metal.
Read moreThis Week in Metal, 2023 Week 40
Another week, another round of metal reviews in the bag. Words are tough, so we assembled the highlights. And if you want to read the latest reviews for the new offerings from Disfiguring The Goddess, Seraphic Entombment, Shining, Steven Wilson, and Arborescence of Wrath, you can do that too!
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Crypts of the Unknown: Loss – Horizonless
