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Wolvencrown - Celestial Lands
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Judging by recent form in atmospheric black metal, could the UK prove to be the new Celestial Lands that Wolvencrown speak of? Read more ›› |
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Below The Sun - Immanence
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The most terrestrial of Below The Sun's albums, yet nonetheless just as enveloping. Read more ›› |
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Veuve - Pole
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Considering the genre’s desert origins, the frozen North may make for an unusual setting for a stoner metal album. Nevertheless, the music within Veuve’s Pole will feel intimately familiar to aficionados of the modern heavy psychedelic scene. Read more ›› |
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10,000 Years - All Quiet On The Final Frontier
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Will it still be All Quiet On The Final Frontier after 10,000 Years of all this heavy stoner fuzz? Read more ›› |
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Iniquitous Savagery - Edifice of Vicissitudes
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Are you ready for a wee slab of good and proper Glaswegian brutal death? Read more ›› |
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Mefitis - The Skorian // The Greyleer
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The Skorian // The Greyleer is a two-way split, the concept of which is just as compelling as it is complex. Read more ›› |
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Mother - II
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While it certainly isn’t the most convenient entity to try and review, there’s a certain elegance to the simplicity of a single-song album: no song titles or subdivisions to compartmentalize one’s opinions of the overarching whole with, just one big maelstrom of sound to try and encompass with words. Read more ›› |
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Smote - A Grand Stream
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Having the word ‘grand’ in the title seems quite fitting for a 75-minute album, but while A Grand Stream is a long album, the form it takes is less one of grandeur, and more one of eerie spiritualism. Read more ›› |
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The Watcher - Out Of The Dark
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The Watcher has been watching on long enough, and is now ready to unleash their debut full-length Out Of The Dark. Read more ›› |
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Ungfell - De Ghörnt
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The blackened folk duo Ungfell continue their journey, delving deeper into the mountains as they uncover a concept that promises to be all the more epic and melodic than before. Read more ›› |
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Defeated Sanity - Chronicles Of Lunacy
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How many times can you create a inhumanly complex brutal death metal album? Read more ›› |
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Múr - Múr
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What's this?! A debut from an Icelandic band that isn't black metal?! Read more ›› |
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Opeth - The Last Will And Testament
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Has there ever been so much fervour and anticipation ahead of an album’s release due to a change in vocal style when there’s not been a change in vocalist? Opeth’s move away from growling caused an alarming schism in the band’s fanbase, but those growls’ return may not herald what those lost along the way were expecting. Read more ›› |
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Czort - Monumenty
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Are you in the holiday mood yet? This Polish band have prepared a pleasant wintry atmosphere, full of melancholy, catchy tunes, and haunting melodies. Read more ›› |
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Poppy - Negative Spaces
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Body Count - Merciless
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On with the bodycount. Read more ›› |