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SHORT BUT SWEET: CURSE UPON A PRAYER —“THE THREE WOES”
(Wil Cifer wrote the following review of the new three-track EP by the Finnish black metal band Curse Upon A Prayer, which will be released by Saturnal Records on June 21.) Saturnal Records is...
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AN NCS EP PREMIERE: CAVEMAN CULT —“SUPREMACÍA PRIMORDIAL”
Yesterday, while recovering from a metal festival over lunch with six haggard friends, we somehow got off onto summing up each other’s personalities. Looking at a few of them I observed, “Some...
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SHADES OF BLACK: FUNERAL MIST, GAEREA, VILKACIS, TURIA, ABIGAIL
As you can see, I’m resuming this column after failing to get it done the last two Sundays due to other commitments. As a result of the hiatus I’m even more awash than usual in new music from the...
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AN NCS EP PREMIERE (AND A REVIEW): GOAT DISCIPLE —“WOLFCULT DOMINATION”
In April when I came across the first two tracks released from Wolfcult Domination, the debut EP by Salt Lake City’s Goat Disciple, I wrote: “You will read that the band’s music is war metal, and it...
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AN NCS EP PREMIERE (AND A REVIEW): TYRANT —“THE EXISTENTIAL REVERSAL”
In the space of only three songs the Canadian quintet Tyrant provide a skull-cracking, blood-rushing, brain-twisting experience on their new EP, The Existential Reversal. Amalgamating aspects of...
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QUICK HITS: THE SPIRIT, BORN TO MURDER THE WORLD, CHTHE’ILIST
I’m still grateful to my friend Andy, whose Waxing Lyrical series continues to relieve my compulsion to come up with something new to post here on Saturdays. And as you can see, I’m still not...
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SHORT BUT SWEET: INTO DARKNESS, EUTHANIZED, MUSMAHHU
This is a collection of three short reviews of three short releases that I recently encountered, one from an old favorite, the others from newer projects. If you’re not a fan of death and black...
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AN NCS DEMO PREMIERE (AND A REVIEW): GRAVES —“UNHOLY DESECRATION”
From the catacombs of the Portuguese black metal underground Signal Rex has unearthed Graves, presenting their blasphemous debut demo, Unholy Desecration, on cassette tape as a prelude to the band’s...
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DELIRIUM REIGNS SUPREME: PLOUGHSHARE, DESTROYER ATTACK, ERIPHION, LODGE OF...
Sometimes when you have no plan, the plan makes itself. A guiding hand intervenes, or if you’re not superstitious, you nod your head at the pleasures of serendipity and synchronicity. I didn’t plan...
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AN NCS EP PREMIERE (AND A REVIEW): SKULLCRUSH —“VISIONS OF THE FIRESTORM...
Skullcrush? Yes… that name works… but so would SpleenRupture, SpineSplinter, KidneyPunch, JawFracture, SkinFlense… and I’m sure I’m forgetting other body parts that their music mutilates...
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AN NCS EP PREMIERE (AND A REVIEW): CRYPTIC HYMN —“THE VAST UNKNOWING”
(Grant Skelton wrote the following review as an introduction to our premiere of the new two song EP by the blackened death metal band Cryptic Hymn from Louisville, Kentucky.) Kentucky’s Cryptic Hymn...
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AN NCS EP PREMIERE: ENGULF —“GOLD AND RUST”
Today, the very lucky 13th of July, is the release date for Gold and Rust, the new EP by the one-man, New Jersey-based death metal project Engulf. It comes adorned with a wonderful cover created by...
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AN NCS EP PREMIERE (AND A REVIEW): DRAGHKAR —“THE ENDLESS HOWLING ABYSS”
After releasing a 2017 demo and a pair of 2018 splits on the Blood Harvest label (with Desekryptor and Ossuarium), the Los Angeles-based death metal trio Draghkar are now just one week away from the...
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QUICK HITS: SENZAR AND ONTOGENY
I really wanted to end this week with a big fat juicy round-up, overstuffed with new songs and videos that I’ve latched onto over the past week but couldn’t cram into other round-ups over the last...
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SHORT BUT SWEET: MANGLER, GULCH, BEAST JESUS
It’s Sunday, and yes we will have a SHADES OF BLACK post a bit later today (a two-parter), but first I thought I’d shoehorn in a trio of way-under-the-radar EPs that I’ve been enjoying recently, in...
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DEATH RITUALS (PART 2): DIRE OMEN, UN, BINAH, PARASITE INC., IN DEMONI, GASH
This is the completion of a post I began yesterday, collecting new songs and videos that by coincidence all happened to fall under the vast umbrella of death metal, or were at least close enough in...
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INTEGRITY AND KRIEG: A SPLIT
(This is Todd Manning’s review of the new split by Integrity and Krieg, which will be released by Relapse Records on August 3rd.) Oftentimes, split recordings are an opportunity for two lesser known...
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SHORT BUT SWEET: ÂME NOIRE –“THE TREE THAT BEARS ROTTEN FRUIT”
(This is Andy Synn‘s review of the new EP by Âme Noire from Melbourne, Australia, which was released on July 13th.) Amidst all the (well-deserved) hype for the soon-to-be-released new EP from...
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AN NCS EP PREMIERE (AND A REVIEW): ENDLESS DISEASE —“HAIL THE COMING END”
Destroy Your Fucking Life. Our Dawn Is the End. There Is No Hope. Supreme Misanthropic Darkness. And now Hail the Coming End. Those are the titles of the releases so far by the Texas band Endless...
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AN NCS EP PREMIERE (AND A REVIEW): ABSOLVTION —“GALLOW’S DESTINY”
The effect of listening to the new EP by the French black/death band Absolvtion is similar to what I imagine I’d feel if I turned a corner and found a cobra immediately at my feet, its head raised,...
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