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2020 Albums

Album Review: Sadness – Alluring the Distant Eye 7.5 (Black Metal)

May 20, 2020 hardalbumreview

Sadness is an extremely prolific one-man project from Oak Park, Illinois and despite being quite a young band, formed only in 2014, the band’s discography shows 16 studio albums (In 2015 alone, 5 LPs were released)!!! This can only mean that most of the music produced, and Elisa’s approach to this form of art in general, is hit-and-miss. As there are outstanding pieces, there ought to be equal, if not more, negligible (or maybe plain substandard) tracks too. How many world-class pieces can one make in one year in one genre, no matter how young and creative one might be? All said, the current state of affairs points to a more balanced view towards musical production in Sadness, with 1 album in 2018 and 2 in 2019. And 2020 has seen only one album, so far. […]

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WILDERUN release video for re-arranged version of Hope & Shadow

May 20, 2020 Katha

Boston based progmetal band WILDERUN got a lot of well deserved attention for their third album “Veil of Imagination”, an album as mesmerizing as its beautiful cover artwork by Adrian Cox. Now the band has recorded an alternate version of the song “Hope & Shadow”, which was originally on their second album “Sleep at the Edge of the Earth”, and published it together with a quarantine session video: […]

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Metal Redux: Morgoth – Cursed (1991)

May 19, 2020 Steven - Aeons Abyss

Morgoth came to me through the late night Aussie music video show, Rage, on the ABC (Australian Broadcast Corporation). Most Saturday nights, around 3am they would play maybe ½-an-hour to an-hour of metal; it was great. I would set up the family VHS on long-play-record, and let it run overnight. First thing in the morning, I would grab some brekkie, and fast forward through the crap, and then normally after the grunge segment (that was pain), it would be metal time. […]

2020 Albums

Album Review: Naglfar – Cerecloth 8 (Black Metal)

May 18, 2020 zaxrecordreviews

When asking someone what band got them into black metal, you’ll hear names like Mayhem and Darkthrone thrown around a lot, maybe Bathory if you’re talking to someone older, or Behemoth if they’re younger (maybe even Burzum if they’re a Nazi or something.) My answer to that question, however, is a bit unique, cause I get to say Naglfar, a long running black metal band from Sweden that are back with their first new record in 8 years! […]

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ALESTORM releases new single and video Fannybaws

May 15, 2020 Katha

How about a very serious history lesson, proudly presented by the Scottish “Pirate Metal Drinking Crew” ALESTORM? They are back to show all the filthy landlubbers what they’re made of. In anticipation of their new album Curse of the Crystal Coconut, which is gonna be out on May 29 via Napalm Records, they just released a video for the new single Fannybaws. […]

Myth of I
2020 Albums

Album review: Myth of I – Myth of I 8.5 (Prog/Tech Death)

May 14, 2020 Katha

I have to admit that I wasn’t a big fan of pure instrumental albums for a long time, but last year I stumbled over some great representatives of this genre and something clicked. MYTH OF I’s self-titled debut album is the newest and very impressive addition in this wide field for me. The four band members (two guitar players, bassist and drummer) come up with outstanding musical skills, and they deliver progressive (tech-death) metal at its finest. […]