Pursuing a precipice between cavernous death metal and uptempo technical death metal, Thaumaturgy fuses an Immolation sense of harmony with the raw chromatic rushing power of an Incantation or Obituary, tunneling deep into a density of sound with multiple internal breaks creating a running dialogue.
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On the surface very much in love with the Testimony of the Ancients era Pestilence, this band injects a sensibility of moods more like the technical albums from Immolation and Gorguts, replacing a frenetic urgency with more varied tempi and therefore, more adaptive riffing.
3 CommentsTags: cryoxyd, death metal, Progressive Death Metal, progressive metal, Technical Death Metal
Presenting the richer side of IPAs, this double IPA has a slightly burnt flavor and intense bitterness but ultimately goes too far into an unbalanced sourness, missing that sweet spot where IPAs still taste like beer just without the soda pop and rotting squash flavors normal to American beer.
21 CommentsTags: beer, craft beer, IPA, karbach brewing, microbrew
If you like the regular “Hopadillo,” a beer with a stupid name but maximum flavor, you may appreciate the Imperial IPA, which is a drier version of the regular Hopadillo with intense levels of alcohol that may have you punching out windshields like a Florida Man.
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Despite the hipstery iconography, everyone wants to love this beer… but it is an IPA with a sweet aftertaste, like banging a Sprite after having a nice austere IPA. For this reason, it drops out of the running among the indie microbrew offerings for alcoholism in Texas.
1 CommentTags: eureka heights, imperial IPA, IPA, microbrew
The current chatter in the underground surrounds the controversial Metal Threat Festival, which took place in Chicago, October 2-5, with a slew of international underground acts. It drew plenty of attention for its dream lineup and the rash of cancellations that followed, as many bands were denied their US visas just weeks ahead of the show. The promoter doubled down on controversy a few weeks before the event by adding the American band Arghoslent as an initially unnamed headliner.
30 CommentsTags: andrew lee, Arghoslent, brandon corsair, master, metal hypocrites, nameless grave records, ripped to shreds, white supremacy
A series of variations on a playful theme, the tracks of this EP create an ominous but playful look into the ambiguity of darkness, filled with both hope and fear. They achieve this with repetition of a trudging theme with lighter counter-themes that bring out a sense of adventure in the obscurity.
12 CommentsTags: dungeon synth, garden gnome, nightwave, soundtrack, vaporwave
Ah, post-Reddit metal: a bunch of sweaty basement nerds with an axe to grind against anyone who has succeeded — sort of like in late hardcore, which went commie/christian as well — raging about a genre that they could not reproduce or even understand.
23 CommentsTags: cancel culture, censorship, fuck christ, fuck liberalism, political correctness, riptide
One of our staffers is on location and liveblogging this epic and exhausting metal festival which stretches an onslaught of bands over three days. Best to bring your comfy chair and maybe a Kindle so you can sit through the poseur bands.
31 CommentsTags: absu, adorior, ares kingdom, Arghoslent, communion, crucifier, death strike, demoncy, diocletian, graveland, infernal war, Inquisition, invocation spells, magnus, master, Necrovore, necrowretch, omegavortex, sadistic intent, usurper, weregoat
With great anticipation, most of the metalheads in Houston crowded into the White Oak music hall to catch a massive bill headed by one of the most stories names in black metal, the inimitable Beherit. The excitement was memorable.
44 CommentsTags: beherit, Black Metal, houston, imprecation, morbosidad, true iron will, unholier
