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REVIEW: Arketh – 12 Winter Moons Comes The Witches Brew
Experimentation is a word often thrown around within the extreme metal spectrum, usually when a particular subgenre decides to cross with another. You got black metal crossing with just about any genre these days, its almost common to the point that straight-forward black metal has become somewhat rarer. Though, I don\’t know if there has Continue reading
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REVIEW: Swampcult – The Festival
SWAMPCULT THE FESTIVAL TRANSCENDING OBSCURITY The Festival is a multi-part take on Lovecraft\’s short-story of the same name by the wonderfully obscure SWAMPCULT. I\’ve read the original myself, as I own far more Lovecraft collections then a person should, and a lot of the details are here – albeit a lot of liberties were taken Continue reading
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REVIEW: Heathen Beast – Rise of the Saffron Empire (EP)
HEATHEN BEASTRISE OF THE SAFFRON EMPIRETRANSCENDING OBSCURITY Political events within both the USA and Canada often leave us North Americans jaded and confused. Electing new officials usually boils down to who can lie best about who, what, how much money they have, and how fanatical their backers truly are. It has come to the point Continue reading
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REVIEW: Seedna – Forlorn
SEEDNAFORLORNTRANSCENDING OBSCURITY RECORDSSeedna\’s Forlorn is an exercise in emotion, a swath of myopic themes ranging from the melancholy to that of shattered hopes and endless regrets. It\’s all about depression, and, to me, it\’s about as depressing as an album can get. For some people this is a welcoming experience, and for the most part I Continue reading
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REVIEW: GRAVESITE – Horrifying Nightmares…
GRAVESITE HORRIFYING NIGHTMARES… XTREEM MUSIC Its rare I find bands that aim to, not change, but perfect their genre; rare that a band that does, is able to maintain their own identity. GRAVESITE completely blows my mind with this. It took only one track, the first (\’Submerged in Vomit\’), to get me excited and wanting Continue reading