Bit of a mouthful that style description. Don't let it put you off though, Castevet's sound has always been a bitch to accurately describe but one thing's for sure: this is a top quality record. If their début wasn't already brilliant enough (which it was), Obsidian pushes the envelope even further and expands on their scorched-Earthen sound with a flawlessly organic progressive edge, with influences from Virus and Enslaved, if their sound is anything to go by.

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Endorsed by: X-Ray Rod, Nefarious, BloodTears, R'Vannith, Troy Killjoy

Yeah it sometimes drags and can be a drag, but when everything comes together on this, you'll get lost in it. 77 minutes... of some okayness and some epicness.

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Endorsed by: !J.O.O.E.!, Marcel Hubregtse, Abattoir, X-Ray Rod, BitterCOld

Sorry Dream Theater, Fates Warning make us wait for their albums much longer, but release much better music.

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Endorsed by: BloodTears, Dane Train, Introspekrieg, Yaniv

Long gone are the Arcturus copycat days, now Vulture Industries just released their most personal album to date. Soaring, theatrical, twisted, deeply emotional, awesome.

Try here or there!

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Endorsed by: psykometal, Ivor, R'Vannith, Auntie Sahar, BloodTears

Definitely my favorite of the decade+ long comeback album craze that has been happening lately.

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Endorsed by: Troy Killjoy

The recent Finnish trend for the bizarre and psychedelic continues. All that's good in the worlds of black, doom, and mindfuck compiled into 35 minutes of gloomy chaos.
Listen over here.

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Most probably the best comeback album since 2004. Whichever Carcass album you used to like, you will find somehting for you here.

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Endorsed by: BloodTears, ScreamingSteelUS

There's not much I can say about SubRosa that I haven't said before. They are undoubtedly the best at what they do in the female-membered doom circuit, and More Constant Than The Gods is the perfect follow up to their sophomore album. If you like moody, psychedelic sludge metal with eccentric female vocals and oddly dissonant violin then this is the album for you.

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Endorsed by: X-Ray Rod, R'Vannith, BloodTears

52 minutes of raw, chaotic Black Metal from Iceland that is as haunting as it is hypnotizing. Fantastic songwriting, amazing atmosphere, great debut!

Listen here

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Endorsed by: !J.O.O.E.!, psykometal, Daniell, BitterCOld, X-Ray Rod, Marcel Hubregtse, Troy Killjoy, wormdrink414

Deathgrind you say? And from Poland? Hell yea, I'll check it out.

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Endorsed by: X-Ray Rod

Blah blah, death metal, blah cavernous and evil, blah de blah blah pride of the UK scene blah awesome blah.

LISTEN blah

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Endorsed by: X-Ray Rod, Marcel Hubregtse, Nefarious, wormdrink414

I guess you could say that, on many accounts, I have been Court In the Act of headbanging to this album like a crazy person.

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Endorsed by: R'Vannith, Daniell, Marcel Hubregtse, psykometal, wormdrink414, Introspekrieg

Did you have a rough monday?
Feel free to ruin your whole week with this.

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Endorsed by: !J.O.O.E.!, Marcel Hubregtse, Nefarious

It's not groundbreaking, it's not genre-defining, it's not brutal, surprising, innovative. It's, simply put, cool. And that's all it needs to be to please me.

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Endorsed by: psykometal, Introspekrieg

At times overwhelming to the senses, Tacit will make you look inside yourself with dizzying melodies; it will make you convulse with the bursts of energy it unleashes and it will leave a mark, a scar if you will, that you will want to revisit frequently. It is a colossus of soothing ambiences to get lost in.

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Endorsed by: R'Vannith, Ivor, X-Ray Rod