Photo Digest: The Near-Endless Onslaught of Inferno Metal Festival 2024
Norway’s Inferno Metal Festival is a yearly celebration of extreme metal that always commands a stunning lineup. This year was no different, with a selection of legacy metal acts like Candlemass, Dimmu Borgir, and Cynic joined by a ridiculously stacked lineup of black metal – everything from Saor to Winterfylleth and Gorgoroth – plus a...
More True Than Time Thought: Dungeon Synth Live!
The Second Wave(Northeast Dungeon Siege in Worcester MA, 3/28-4/1) [Note: More photography for both shows is available on Kap’s blog – Synth Digest] I am just joking about the second wave of dungeon synth, by the way (I also have a joke about post-dungeon synth.) Though if you were to entertain the idea of dungeon...
Walk Through Fire Snuff Out the Sparks of Hope on "Till Aska" (Track-by-Track Rundown)
Walk Through Fire has never been a band I’d seek out for joy, but their new album Till Aska is another step forward for the band — forward, into a dark, bottomless pit. Sad, bleak, and slow, Till Aska pushes sludge to its breaking point, instilling the ethos and melancholy of funeral doom into the...