Music communicates an experience more than emotions directly; our emotions arise in response to it. The best music first manages to hold together as a consistent voice, and then explores its own take on the world, even if not original in style or necessarily profound; it needs personality.
Arktheos Cosmolith uses primitive rhythm techniques and quick chromatic runs to fill out its riffs which follow the whipping urgent style of Sarcofago crossed with an approach like early Demigod to fill in partial melodies gesturing at the unknown hidden within, and maintains an evolving protean atmosphere.
Like war metal, it consists mostly of rhythm but in the ratios and contrasts of that rhythm across multiple riffs, builts up a sensation of urgency in descent into primal chaos, and from that, is able to make some of its grander suggestions offhandedly like they would occur in nature, observed from afar without fanfare.
Tags: arktheos, death metal, War Metal
Not bad, I guess 2025 wasn’t so terrible.
Pretty good compared to the previous year I’d say.
I make these statements, not to be an egotistical prick, but so they are here fixed in time: as the hipster metal dies, real metal rises.
We can hope. I’d feel defeatist if I planned on a new Demelich album. But I’m living optimistic.
I don’t even really fuck with new metal if the tastemakers around here haven’t recommended it, even if i almost never find something worth hearing more than once, thats still better than the hurricane of cat turds that metal at large has become.
staff? he’ll naw! This gotta be Brett’s AI “reviewbot” gettin’ all “chromatic” & “contrast”y B4 “resolution” or whatever. Siskel is turning in his grave (Ebert’s too fkn fat).
Decent first stab at Brett jingo bingo, but never forget the transcendence.
Ebert may be fat, but he outlived Siskel. So much for everything the establishment teaches us about health and longevity!
Time to review the new Ectovoid.
Is this the only place on the internet where genuine freedom of speech is allowed? Because it sure looks like it, I guess you carved a nice niche.
Almost every place I’ve seen in the last decade will get you eventually kicked/banned/ostracized if you deviate off the paradigm, and it doesn’t matter if it’s Left or Right anymore. It’s seems everyone is living inside their own pseudo-religious bubble, terrified of needles.
My favorite cheesy 80’s pop song is Stevie Nicks – Rooms on Fire (remastered).
Gonna exercise my freedom speech and say what a mealy-mouthed little cuck you are, and that the album under review sounds like you wife being raped by a black man?
You’re not far off. I mostly agree with Burt’s 2025 list, but this album doesn’t quite fit. At first it seems decent, but then I noticed the poutine has been spoiled by many black men…
Best drinking movies:
Barfly 1987
Cocktail 1988
Leaving las vegas 1995
And that’s it, I wish there were more great drinking movies, but maybe the next beer review will fix it.