Author: Dan Marsicano
The Ominous Circle – Appalling Ascension Review
The Ominous Circle begins Appalling Ascension with layered guitar feedback and alien growling on “Heart Girt with a Serpent.” It’s …
Set And Setting – Reflectionless
Reflectionless, the third album from Set And Setting, can be a tricky listen. Not because it’s some impenetrable creation, but …
Black Anvil – As Was Review
Black Anvil have slowly been separating from the unpolished ode to early ’90s death and black metal that was present …
Terra – Mors Secunda Review
The sweeping black metal Terra perform is a delicate endeavor. It’s tough for many bands to go over ten minutes …
Hollow Earth – Dead Planet Review
Hollow Earth look to the sky and past Earth’s vast atmospheric layers to outer space for inspiration behind their second …
Misanthropic Rage – Gates No Longer Shut Review
What a band should want to do, whatever genre they represent, is provide a twist on the norms. It’s not …
Quicksand Dream – Beheading Tyrants Review
Quicksand Dream’s Beheading Tyrants is an album 16 years in the making. That’s right, sixteen years. No extra number placed …
Ruinous – Graves Of Ceaseless Death Review
Disma, Incantation, Funebrarum: all bands that had at least one member of Ruinous in their ranks at some point or …
Krypts – Remnants Of Expansion Review
There’s death/doom and then there’s Finnish death/doom. Something in the air or in the water supply has to be a …
Black Table – Obelisk Review
Black Table’s apocalyptic Obelisk starts at the bottom of a deep cavern and never rises from it. It tries to …
Venom Prison – Animus Review
The caustic attitude of Venom Prison’s Animus is its guiding light, violent tendencies and condemnation of humanity given through an …
Alter Bridge – The Last Hero Review
When Alter Bridge rose from Creed’s holy ashes in the early 2000s, they had to distance themselves from being labeled …