Album Review: Hertz Kankarok – Make Madder Music (Self Released)
Hertz Kankarok reappears from the darkness with a new opus entitled Make Madder Music. Four songs, more than 34 minutes of oppressive, slow and pitch-dark extreme metal
Album Reviews 2018
Album Review: Red Swamp – Desertdrive (Hunnia Records)
Hungarian stoner-sludge metal bandits Red Swamp might be familiar to anyone keeping a keen eye on the eastern european underground scene, their recent second LP, titled “Desertdrive” was released this year on 4/20 (a number any self-respecting listener of the genre should be familiar with)!
Album Review: Six Feet Under – Unburied (Metal Blade Records)
Death metal veterans Six Feet Under have released a new album of previously unreleased material. Out now, the short album is called Unburied and was released via Metal Blade Records.
Album Review: Kreiviskai – Nonregnum (Cold Dungeon Records)
Nonregnum is the second full-length album made by Kreiviskai, the band from Tver, playing at the intersection of folk, ritual and ethnographic-ambient genres.
Album Review: Devildriver – Outlaws ‘Til The End: Vol. 1 (Napalm Records)
Imagine groove-metal played at an intense pace. Imagine that sound but covering some of music’s most famous country songs. Well, what you’ve just pictured is Devildriver’s Outlaws ‘Til the End: Vol. 1.
Album Review: Khôrada – Salt (Prophecy Productions)
Rising from the ashes of Agalloch and Giant Squid, a new group is born: Khôrada. Featuring former Agalloch members Don Anderson (guitar), Jason Walton (bass) and Aesop Dekker (drums) alongside ex-Giant Squid guitarist / vocalist Aaron John Gregory, Khôrada creates colossal, textured, and emotionally powerful music. The group will release its debut album, ‘Salt’ on July 20th 2018 via Prophecy Productions.
Album Review: Sunset Forsaken – Chameleon Waters (Musica Productions)
Chameleon Waters is the debut album by death/doom project, Sunset Forsaken which was founded by Andrey V. Tollock of Haissem fame. The new album will be released at the end of July by Russian label Musica Productions.
Album Review: Black Fast – Spectre of Ruin (eOne)
There isn’t a single clean passage, moody interlude, orchestral intro, or shoegazing break on Black Fast’s unapologetically destructive third album, Spectre of Ruin. From start to finish, thrash metal fury is the business of Black Fast… and business is very good. The album will be out on July 13th 2018 via eOne.