Civil War - Invaders
Review by ScreamingSteelUS

8.4

Civil War’s fourth album defies expectations not only by its very existence, but by its dynamism and spirit – although I have been tempted for the sake of gripping emphasis to describe Invaders as a “resurgence,” which it is from a certain perspective, it is more accurately the first proper surge I have heard from this band.

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Verberis - Adumbration Of The Veiled Logos
Review by RaduP

 

Generally one of the first questions that noobies ask when getting into extreme metal is "What's the difference between black metal and death metal?", and that's something that, at this point, we should be able to confidently answer. But when both genres play with dissonance and atmosphere, they can intertwine into inseparability. Like on Verberis' Adumbration Of The Veiled Logos.

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Bríi - Corpos Transparentes
Review by RaduP

 

Corpos Transparentes makes it hard to believe that there was a time where it wasn't obvious that one-man bands Bríi and Kaatayra were actually the same one-man.

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Process Of Guilt - Slaves Beneath The Sun
Review by musclassia

8.2

Over the last few years, I have gotten prematurely excited on more than one occasion about a new music announcement, only to re-read the band name and see that it’s from Portrayal Of Guilt (no offence to the Texans). Finally, the announcement that I’ve actually been hoping for has come: here’s the new Process Of Guilt album.

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Krallice - Psychagogue
Review by RaduP

 

And just when I though Krallice was finally settling down, Psychagogue happened.

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Inexorum - Equinox Vigil
Review by RaduP

 

Even though both "melodic death metal" and "melodic black metal" are genre tags that get used fairly often, the former is pretty well-established as a separate genre, to the point where you'd get scoffed at for calling Insomnium a "death metal band" but not a "melodic death metal band". The distinctions between "melodic black metal" and "black metal" are a bit muddier, but Inexorum try to make them a bit clearer.

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Esoctrilihum - Consecration Of The Spiritüs Flesh
Review by RaduP

 

Seven albums in less than seven years should start feeling a bit stale by now, especially with how long their runtimes were. But Esoctrilihum knows not to make the exact same album twice. Consecration Of The Spiritüs is not just the shortest one, but the most violent one too.

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Michael Romeo - War Of The Worlds, Pt. 2
Review by nikarg

 

Guitar virtuoso Michael Romeo took advantage of the hiatus his main band Symphony X seems to be under, and decided to write music for a solo project. But he got a little carried away and what he wrote was enough to fill two albums, hence we have the two parts of War Of The Worlds. The first one (which we despicably failed to review) came out in 2018, and the second one (which does get a -much deserved- review) was finally released in March 2022, even though it had been ready a long time before that.

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