Besra's Haunting Post-Metal Puts Us In a "Prison Without Locks" (Early Track Stream)
Finnish post-metal group Besra are bleeding hearts in a genre of crushing tones. Their focus lies in their lyrics and vocals, pushing the expected distortion to the background and taking their time with delicate build-ups. It’s a reversal of the usual post-metal style that emphasizes the emotive effects of large soundscapes, and Besra’s newest track...
Uranium Plunges Into Frigid Voids With a "Black Knight Satellite" (Early Track Stream)
The extreme metal arms race is mostly dormant at this point, but Uranium is peddling some seriously contentious new material. Much like their namesake element, they bring an intensely destructive energy: their approach to black metal sees it totally corroded and rusted over into something nearly unidentifiable. On their upcoming album Pure Nuclear Death, industrial...
Frigid Imaginations: Cirkeln Streams New Single "Garden of Thorns"
Slowly in Pippin’s aching head memory pieced itself together…. Of course: he and Merry had run off into the woods…. suddenly they had crashed right into a group of Orcs… Merry and he had drawn their swords, but the Orcs did not wish to fight, and had tried only to lay hold of them, even...