Our This Week in Metal post collects our thoughts on music released in or around this week in the music world. We cover mostly metal, but we consider other genres to allow our writers poseur flexibility. Follow us on Instagram too!
Scuttlegoat's Curmudgeonly Critique
All Things Black is more early Ghost than The Devil's Blood and more Scooby Doo than it is The Omen. Something about the songs can be quite catchy and a lot of it sits in guilty pleasure territory. Deplorable or delicious, or both?
Metalligator's Chomping Commentaries
When Emily Highfield released her debut Suldusk album Lunar Falls, Metalligator wasn't particularly convinced. For its few harsh edges, the folk music did not particularly strike a chord, and the album just flowed by without making much of an impact. But Anthesis? What the folk happened here??
Doom metal that is really progressive tends to be rare, and music bearing this tag will usually refer to a single outside influence that doesn't make much of a mark on the whole. But Dionysiaque's Diogonos is something different, without a doubt.
Anti-Peat's Perplexing Position
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.
Cosmo's Chaotic Curveball
I was pretty excited when Vorga's sophomore album was announced. Sporting another stellar cover art by Adam Burke, it looked to be a direct continuation of their debut. However, it seems that along the way, there were a few mishaps. Will their new output pale in comparison?
