Search results for: “extreme metal”
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Sigh Turns Nine Paintings of Decay Into ‘Goh-ka’
Sigh anchor ‘Goh-ka’ in Kusōzu, the Buddhist meditation on bodily decay, extending 2022’s ‘Shiki’ into a darker register.
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Self-Deceiver Exchanges the River Styx for ‘Nihil’
Bogotá’s Self-Deceiver follows 2022’s ‘Across the Styx’ with ‘Nihil,’ a record that opens on the Norse god Baldr’s fatal dream.
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Neurosis Joins Bogothrash at Bogotá’s Ozzy Company
Neurosis headlines the opening round of Bogothrash Sessions, reactivating its 1995 record while six unsigned Bogotá acts compete for a…
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Naïwyn’s Azgaal Summons a Punishing Angel in ‘Divine Hitman’
France’s Azgaal channels a punishing angel from Jewish mysticism into ‘Divine Hitman,’ extending one man’s occult vision to a new…
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Teratum Wage ‘Ordnance of Spiritual Warfare’ From Sweden
The Swedish quartet’s debut EP inherits Beastiality’s black-thrash violence while reaching for a far older vocabulary of spiritual combat.
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Agonanist Sets ‘The Spirit of Gravity’ to Microtones
Six years after his debut, Tyler Henthorn splits Nietzsche’s demon of inherited weight into three tunings for a scattered dissonant…
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On ‘Maanaääri,’ Noumena Reckons with Finland’s Great Wrath
Noumena’s seventh album sets Finland’s Great Wrath to melody, testing what a specific national wound demands of a genre built…
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Shabti Send Servants on ‘Haze, Cacophony, and White Light’
A Portland trio, settled after nearly two decades of lineup change, turns an Egyptian funerary practice into a warning about…
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Jotungrav Root Their Debut ‘Elegi’ in Norse Rebirth
Jotungrav’s debut album turns Norse myth into a four-song elegy on loss and rebirth, extending a documented tradition with reach.
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Unified Confront a ‘Devouring Plague of Mediocrity’
A Bogotá band formed in 2024 answers the city’s brutal death metal inheritance with a debut about ritual, fear and…
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Soulgrind Emerges from Tuonela in ‘Ad Pulchram Mortem’
Fifteen years after ‘The Tuoni Pathway,’ Soulgrind returns with a record steeped in Tuonela’s mythology, reaching beyond Finland’s gothic scene.
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Death. Void. Terror. Reemerge in ‘To the Great Monolith 2.5’
The anonymous Swiss project’s first release since 2020 lands on cassette only, its ritual concept rooted in trance practices older…
