As part of its ongoing world tour, Beherit introduces a live set recorded with audio quality in mind for those who want to hear a medley of standouts from this band presented in a compact form.
11 CommentsTags: beherit, Black Metal
Solitvdo – Militia (2018)
Since it is being reissued, this album demands a revisit, which is fortunate because as metal casts around for a direction, Solitvdo present one option with their carefully-structured formalized style which periodically uses synthesized horns to present a martial and elegant front.
4 CommentsTags: Black Metal, solitvdo, War Metal
Sadistic Metal Reviews: Self-Erasing Message Edition
It does not matter what I write here because people no longer read articles. They read headlines and summaries, then skim for embedded media. Television finally took over through the computer. As usual, the voters/consumers are their own worst enemy, choosing the dumbest format they can find.
36 CommentsTags: sadistic metal reviews, smr
Sacramentum – The Coming of Chaos (Re-Mix 2024)
by Charles Alexander
The remix of The Coming of Chaos addresses production difficulties with a late release by a classic band, but struggles to overcome the hybrid of black metal and speed metal that was in vogue for a couple years but ultimately muddles the amazing composition within this album.
18 CommentsTags: Black Metal, sacramentum, Speed Metal
Havukruunu – Kuu Erkylän Yllä (2021)
Stick a bunch of Finns together in a winter war bunker with copies of Blood Fire Death and Under the Sign of the Black Mark, and you might get this imaginative band that stands astride black metal, speed metal, and epic heavy metal with an emphasis on changing atmosphere.
12 CommentsTags: Black Metal, havakruunu
Inborn Suffering – Pale Grey Monochrome (2025)
The line between doom-death and funeral doom blurs with this release since there is relatively little death metal or phrasal riffs, and more of the approach Skepticism and Thergothon took with slow even chording of overlapping tone progressions overlaid with lead melodic rhythm guitar.
3 CommentsTags: Doom Metal, doom-death, funeral doom, inborn suffering
Shores of Null – The Loss of Beauty (2024)
The funderground tryhards forgot to create music in their quest for image, and the mainstreamer emoclones neutralize musical potential in order to be socially inoffensive, but nature is healing itself as Shores of Null make a hybrid between power metal, doom metal, and post-metal that promotes beauty.
4 CommentsTags: Doom Metal, power metal, shores of null
Sick Sinus Syndrome – Rotten to the Core (2021)
While many of their riffs are clearly inspired by the early years of Carcass, Sick Sinus Syndrome introduce variety to this often tired formula by taking an aggressive approach comparable to Terrorizer, Repulsion, or Blood. In the grindcore tradition, most songs on this album consist of two themes juxtaposed, frequently a rising and falling action, sometimes presaged by an introduction.
14 CommentsTags: Goregrind, Grindcore, sick sinus syndrome
Suffer – Global Warming (1993)
In the idiosyncratic anomalies of metal, Global Warming stands out for being a death metal album with thrash vocals and occasional heavy metal influences which come from the more confrontational side of that genre instead of the groovy, relaxed side.
9 CommentsTags: death metal, suffer, Thrash
Lord of Plague – Passage to None (2024)
The first track here must be the first song the band ever composed, because it’s a bad indicator of what the bulk of material on this demo has in store for the listener. After a brief foray into a low-tech take on early Morbid Angel, Lord of Plague then launch into two pieces that bring to mind the churning music of Floridian acts such as Monstrosity, Malevolent Creation, or Resurrection.
27 CommentsTags: death metal, lord of plague
