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. . . Normally I don’t do pre-release hype, but I want the world to know about Foscor’s Groans to the Guilty. I’ve gushed about Foscor here and here, and judging from the promo trailer above, I will likely love the new record as well. The song in the trailer is called “Searching a Seal […]

2xLP w/ included A4 booklet Sometimes reverb rules. Seven Chalices (Noevdia/AJNA Offensive/Dauthus, 2009) recalls classic “wet” sounds like Pleasure to Kill, Hell Awaits, and early Bathory. Five of its 11 tracks are interludes, forming almost a quarter of the record. This could be as bad as hip-hop, but the interludes are as interesting as the […]

by Cosmo Lee I never thought I’d hear bands that sounded like Blut aus Nord or Deathspell Omega. Yet Dissociated Human Junction (Panik Terror Musik, 2007) has three, plus BaN themselves. Fortunately, it’s pretty much impossible to copy BaN or DO, so this split is a product of inspiration, not theft. Spain’s Bloodoline turn in […]

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7EHe8xROSzk] Catalan black metallers Foscor have released a video for “I Tornà de les Cendres”, from their album The Smile of the Sad Ones, which I wrote about here. The video takes place in a spa in Catalonia called the Balneari de la Puda (built in 1870, abandoned in 1958). Its atmosphere is thick like […]

Black metal can be both the ugliest and most beautiful kind of metal. I’ve never bought into the glowering demeanors and spiky wristbands; the more armor one wears, the more vulnerable one feels. This frailty has yielded some of the most gorgeous guitars I’ve ever heard. Strip away the distortion, and you hear guys sitting […]

Antigama A bunch of new writing up – at Metal Injection, I’ve got reviews of Polish grinders Antigama, Norwegian black metal band Throne of Katarsis, and Los Angeles prog metallers Redemption, as well as interviews with Spanish band NahemaH and shredder Laura Christine from San Diego death metallers Warface. Antigama – Neutral BalanceNaglfar – The […]

My review of Nahemah’s new album is up at Stylus. After many listens, I realized that Nahemah was like a lusher, less repressed Isis. Up at Metal Injection is my review of old-school (and excellent) Swedish death metal act Flesh. Nahemah – PhoenixFlesh – Baptised on the Demon’s Throne

Geodesic DomePulses in Rhombus Forms Macabre Mementos2005 The promotional copy for this album is hilarious: “Wormed constantly pummels you with a massive onslaught of super brutal death metal throughout this release. There is some crazy concept behind this album that deals with space travel and the human consciousness. The heavy guitars scratch through your ear […]