Month: February 2020

Folk Metal

Interview: Exulansis (Folk/Black Metal)

February 11, 2020 zaxrecordreviews

Exulansis are a post-black metal trio from Oregon here in the United States that fuse lots of folk into their sound. They released their debut full length titled Sequestered Sympathy, which I actually reviewed here on Noob Heavy. I’ve also praised it a handful of times on my socials, as well as rewarding it a spot on my best albums of the year list. I’ve never done an interview before, but I figured it’d be cool to test it out with these great folks. […]

2020 Albums

Album Review: Bodysnatcher – This Heavy Void 8.6 (Deathcore)

February 7, 2020 zaxrecordreviews

My home state, Florida, was a hub for death metal in the early 90s, with legendary bands like Death, Deicide, and Morbid Angel. Over the last decade, there has been a huge uprising of hardcore in the state as well, more specifically that new brand of hardcore that attaches elements of beatdown, metalcore, and deathcore to the sound. Every scene has a leader, a band who’s carrying the torch so to speak, and I thoroughly believe that band is Bodysnatcher here in Florida. […]

2020 Albums

Album Review: Symbolik – Emergence 9.3 (Melodic Tech Death)

February 6, 2020 Melinda (Carcassbomb)

An album a decade in the making and carrying influences from across a length of time, making for a pretty unique combination of melodic death metal and technical death metal, though with a blackened touch. The riffs on this one are addictive and varied but never without a sense of outlandish melody. This one will absolutely slap your ears about and demand many listens. Emergence comes out on the 10th of April. […]

2020 Albums

Album Review: Live Burial – Unending Futility 8.7 (OSDM)

February 6, 2020 Melinda (Carcassbomb)

For once I’m not just reviewing this because it’s on Transcending Obscurity, this album also features the artwork of Luke Oram who I’ve covered so much that he earned his very own category on Noob Heavy. Why? Because he’s criminally underrated and deserves way more exposure for how prolific he is in the metal scene. From what I understand, Live Burial themselves are quite close to Luke over there in the UK. So it’s all wrapped up in my favorite things, but is Unending Futility any good? Yes! It’s very good, it’s quite a memorable old school death metal release. […]

Interviews

Interview With Tommy Giles of Between The Buried And Me + Australian Tour 2020

February 4, 2020 Melinda (Carcassbomb)

Between The Buried And Me have been a huge part of my music rotation since they first endeared themselves to me with Colors in 2007, a progressive metal masterpiece by many peoples admissions. Since then I have eagerly followed their musical journey as they refined their sound and experimented with different themes. I love a themed album and Between The Buried And Me are masters of exactly that, so I’m stoked to announce that not only are they coming to Australia for an east coast tour, but they’re doing so with an ambitious themed double set. Tickets for the shows (Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne) can be purchased here through their official website. […]

2019 Albums

Album Review: The Number Twelve Looks Like You – Wild Gods – 9 (Mathcore)

February 4, 2020 Melinda (Carcassbomb)

These guys play a variety of music that most metalheads would see on paper and decide it’s not for them, I’m talking screamo and jazz. The Number Twelve have always been on the experimental side of post hardcore and mathcore, which if you ask me, is the only side of these genres – I’ll save you my rant about the origins of post hardcore being rooted in experimentation and then being degregraded by the popularity of a particular handful of bands. They’ve stayed true to that experimentation with this new album, something I was not expecting since I was unsure of the bands status in recent years. I’ve been a fan for well over a decade and am recently stirred up by 2019’s The Callous Daoboys, so I’m more than excited to dig in. […]

Carcassbomb's Reviews

Microdose: Venom Prison, Necropanther, Descent & Harbinger Of Storms

February 2, 2020 Melinda (Carcassbomb)

Four good albums, four short reviews. This week there’s almost a theme with double death/hardcore. Throw in some blackened thrash and epic synth doom and you’ve got a good time. If you dig all four of these then hit me up for a sweet high five, because you’re a cool person. Also I do this every week but I keep having to check the previous one to remember how to format it. Mobile users, tilt that phone! Seriously, or it will appear jumbled… next week I’ll probably put all the images on the one side… lol. […]

No Picture

Where, when and how to promote yourself.

February 1, 2020 Melinda (Carcassbomb)

This article should give you some idea of where to promote your music, the best times of the day to do so and how to best present your content according to the platform. It’s a lot of work but so is writing and recording an album, a lot of bands slack it when it comes to the final part of the process: promotion. I strongly recommend hiring PR because there’s affordable options that can essentially do all of this for you, or with you to increase its effectiveness and there’s also the added benefit of PR people generally being inside the industry with mailing lists that can get you coverage. Anyway, here’s what I can tell you to improve your game either way. Below is a quick overview of what’s to follow so keep scrolling. […]