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 Mayhemic, Vanessa Funke, and Monument of Misanthropy, you can do that too!
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Mayhemic – Toba Review
In yet another tale of a metal subgenre rapidly stagnating, blackened thrash finds itself needing revitalizing. But where there’s a riff, there’s a way.
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Mythologik – Blood in the Sky Review
Texan duo Mythologik proclaim that Blood in the Sky features a mix of melodic blackened death metal musical tendencies with aggressive/soaring vocals like 80s thrash metal. And you know what, these Texans have some of those 80s thrash metal tendencies in the music too. We reckon, anyway. Grab the thrash bull by the horns!
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This Week In Metal, 2024 Week 6
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 Madder Mortem, Dissimulator, Spiritual Deception, Spectral Voice, Vitriol, and Drowned, you can do that too!
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Dissimulator – Lower Form Resistance Review
It riffs. The amount of times an album has been explained to me with just these two words is staggering. The quality of “having riffs” is enough for many a metalhead, thrashers in particular, to fall in love with an album. That said, Dissimulator riffs. But is that all?
Read moreThis Week In Metal, 2024 Week 5
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 Unsouling, Massa Nera & Quiet Fear, Caligula’s Horse, Sovereign, and Hoplites, you can do that too!
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Sovereign – Altered Realities Review
I am not normally a thrash fan. Usually, I think of it as nothing more than a wild government conspiracy theory, but when a thrash album manages to get me to take off the tinfoil hat, it’s real special. Have Sovereign actually managed to alter Cosmo’s thrash perception?
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Sylosis – A Sign of Things to Come Review
Metalcore was always present in Sylosis’ concoction of genres but it always tilted more towards the older Hardcore leaning bands. Opening song “Deadwood” is like an autostereogram of small amounts of Dyscarnate stomp and shouted Slipknot vocals that gradually come into focus in a Linkin Park refrain. But in the end, does it even matter? Find out in this review…
Read moreThis Week in Metal, 2023 Week 35
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 Nuclear Power Trio, Grand Cadaver, Massen, Soen, Blut aus Nord, and Exmortus, you can do that too!
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Crypts of the Unknown: 2024 Vol. 1
