Here’s a band that’s been through it all, from internal strife to somehow surviving the death of founder/drummer Bill Bumgardner; they’ve broken up and gotten back together, enlisting the help of members from bands as various as Indian, Pelican, Yakuza, and Abigail Williams to complete this blackened opus of terror,

How the Gods Kill a Covers Record Covers records are a dime a dozen. I remember way back in the mid-to-late 90’s when album tributes starting coming out, when you would get ten to twelve different bands covering their favorite tracks by a single, legendary artist. Some of them were

From Liverpool come the mighty Dawn Ray’d, delivering unto us their second full-length platter in almost as many years. They formed in 2015 to bring their particular brand of atmospheric Black Metal and Leftist politics. A three-piece, they manage to sound almost larger than bands like Dimmu Borgir, who seem

Creeping Death crawl out of the crypt and simply slam your face into the concrete over and over again on this, their first full-length album. This is some old-school, pit-refined, groovy Death Metal. Add some thrash, season liberally with some black, and you get this classic slab of crushing death.

Raise The Flails! Behold, Dawn Ray’d and Behold Sedition Plainsong From Liverpool come the mighty Dawn Ray’d, delivering unto us their second full-length platter in almost as many years. They formed in 2015 to bring their particular brand of atmospheric Black Metal and Leftist politics. A three-piece, they manage to

Pure Darkness – Morast’s Il Nostro Silenzo Label: Van Records Here’s a record that’s going to get lost in the shuffle of all the new stuff coming out this year, and that’s a real shame because it’s pretty damned good. If you’re a fan at all of Death/Doom then you