Music
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Faustian Trade Violence for Horror on ‘Parable of the Sewer’
An Australian death-metal supergroup reaches from Melbourne toward a Scandinavian black metal benchmark on its second full-length album.
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Ambrotos Raise Constantinople’s Fall on ‘Atrocious Chants’
An Athens black metal project places the fall of Constantinople at the center of its most formally ambitious record yet.
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Mothertomb Wring Life From Decay on ‘Dying to Live’
A Welsh voice and a Michigan ice storm shape doom quartet Mothertomb’s debut ‘Dying to Live,’ a record for a…
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Inferno Descend Into Despair on ‘The Anthropic Sophisms’
Czech avant-black metal’s most severe act returns July 17th on Debemur Morti, dissolving humanity’s pretensions into four tracks of industrial…
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Emptiness Seal a Twelve-Year Rupture on ‘Nowhere Speaks’
Belgian avant-garde extreme metal band Emptiness return July 17th on Season of Mist — closing a loop left open since…
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Shadow of Jupiter Drop ‘Bones’ Into the Doom Underground
Seven tracks of Midwestern proto-doom arrive July 10th on Ripple Music — a second album built on riff, weight, and…
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Pylar Turn Delirium Into Method on ‘Delyrio’
The Seville collective open the final cycle of their masked ritual metal on July 10th, dissolving time, self, and form…
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Sojourner Return Across Two Hemispheres on ‘Gateways’
Atmospheric black metal band Sojourner return July 10th on Avantgarde, a trans-hemispheric comeback that folds a new voice into an…
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Catalyst Crime Cross Borders on ‘Acquired Immunity’
A band with no single homeland, Catalyst Crime carry a Czech resistance story and a harder sound toward listeners who…
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Soothsayer Wade Into Withdrawal on ‘The Unbinding’
The Cork doom band’s second album arrives July 3rd on Apocalyptic Witchcraft, turning private grief and chosen retreat into music…
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Dominum Stage a Carnival of the Dead on ‘Night Is Calling’
German gothic power metal troupe Dominum bring their undead theatre to a third album, ‘Night Is Calling,’ carrying a homegrown…
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Mortem Rouse Norway’s Oldest Darkness on ‘Mørketid’
One of Norway’s earliest black metal bands answers its near-mythic 1989 demo with a second album that travels far beyond…
