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AMG’s Unsigned Band Rodeö: Questing Beast – Birth
“AMG’s Unsigned Band Rodeö” is a time-honored tradition to showcase the most underground of the underground—the unsigned and unpromoted. This collective review treatment continues to exist to unite our...
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Eva Can’t – Emisferi Review
Written by Nameless N00b 86 Eva Can’t is ready for a musical expedition. A global, transoceanic expedition, judging by the promo sheet which says that Emisferi is “imagined as a journey from pole to...
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Blood Incantation – Absolute Elsewhere Review
A star was born when Denver’s Blood Incantation launched itself into prominence on its exciting 2016 debut Starspawn. The album’s rugged, sometimes cavernous old school death drew inspiration from...
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AMG’s Unsigned Band Rodeö: Wist – Strange Balance
“AMG’s Unsigned Band Rodeö” is a time-honored tradition to showcase the most underground of the underground—the unsigned and unpromoted. This collective review treatment continues to exist to unite our...
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Dawnwalker – The Unknowing Review
Dawnwalker is a fascinating project. I first encountered the UK group in 2020, on the recommendation of Huck N Roll, who thought I’d enjoy the death-prog-folk leanings of Ages. He was right about that,...
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Yer Metal Is Olde: Opeth – Still Life
With a highly-anticipated new album due on the 22nd of November,1 there’s little introduction required for a progressive metal institution like Opeth. But on the eve of new material, I’m casting my...
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Iotunn – Kinship Review
When Jón Aldará does something, we pay attention. Between Barren Earth, Hamferð and Iotunn, the Faroese friend of the blog has been involved in banger after banger after banger the last few years with...
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Yer Metal is Olde: Mastodon – Leviathan
Back in their early days, Atlanta’s progressive sludge juggernaut Mastodon could do little wrong. I remember perusing my local independent record store and being taken by the striking artwork and...
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Capilla Ardiente – Where Gods Live and Men Die Review
The only thing more metal than the glimmer of bloodied blade in the setting sun is the barbaric howl that reverberates afterward as a determination of victory. Early in heavy metal’s history, that kind...
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VOLA – Friend of a Phantom Review
Denmark’s VOLA is one of the jewels in the crown of progressive metal from the last ten years. Three successive releases orienting around smart, technical, creative and catchy songs with few real...
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Yer Metal Is Olde: Pain of Salvation – One Hour by the Concrete Lake
Music consumption looks much different today than it did in 1999. Hot new radio singles have become algorithmically or otherwise boosted pushes on major streaming services. Deluges of notifications...
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Veilburner – The Duality of Decapitation and Wisdom Review
Asheville, North Carolina’s motto, for the whole time I’d lived there, is “Stay Weird.” For the most part, we Ashevillians take that to heart. So, too, it seems, do Pennsylvania’s weird blackened death...
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Sleepless – Through Endless Black Review
Bands who seek to echo heavy metal’s past walk a fine line between regressive repetition and studied homage. Consequently, in a world where source material for these sounds spans the course of decades,...
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Opeth – The Last Will and Testament Review
Little introduction is required for the progressive metal institution that is Sweden’s Opeth. In a career running over 30 years in length and spanning 13 previous studio albums, they have demonstrated...
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Bedsore – Dreaming the Strife for Love Review
Fresh on the heels of other progressive death accolades in the comeback-record-sphere,1 Bedsore has staged a lesser-hyped return of their own. Four years on the books since 2020’s Hypnagogic...
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Septaria – Astar Review
Written By: Nameless_N00b_87 It’s hard to believe Gojira’s From Mars to Sirius will be celebrating its twenty-year anniversary next year. The now famous metal quartet from Bayonne, France has ascended...
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Athena XIX – Everflow Part 1: Frames of Humanity Review
Before Fabio Lione rose to prominence with [(Luca) Turilli(/Lione)’s] Rhapsody [of Fire] and Angra, Athena—stylized now as Athena XIX1—served as another potential vehicle into the growing European...
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Stuck in the Filter: August and September 2024
I am a stubborn bitch. I work my underlings hard, and I won’t let up until they dig up shiny goodies for me to share with the general public. Share might be a generous term. Foist upon is probably...
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The Old Dead Tree – Second Thoughts Review
The hibernal cool-down of December brings with it the urge to succumb to an early setting sun and frozen morning air.1 And with this desire for thick socks, fuzzy blankets, and warm, spiced beverages...
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Amiensus – Reclamation: Part 1 [Things You Might Have Missed 2024]
Amiensus really blessed us this year. Their fourth and fifth full-lengths dropped as the two parts of epic Reclamation. Each a beautiful work of art of their own, together, they’re a shining example of...
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