Mantric — False Negative
An essential addition to any prog fan’s streaming list.
In the Company of Serpents – Lux
This album has plenty to surprise you with.
Hellhookah – The Curse
The Curse’ is a big dense serving of traditional gloom and doom packaged very efficiently.
Naglfar – Cerecloth
A very strong black/death metal album, should more than please long-time fans and new listeners alike.
Holden – Ursa Minor
Better and more focused writing would have made this a better, more profound debut album.
Gnaw Their Tongues – I speak the truth, yet with every word uttered,...
Pure auditory chaos
Witchcraft – Black Metal
Not really a Witchcraft album, nor a very good one.
Ulveblod – Omnia Mors Aequat
Harsh black metal that pulls few punches, but ends up the victim of its own ambition
Nox Formulae – Drakon Darshan Satan
A decent enough black metal album, one that probably would have done better if it had been released without playing up its alleged inspiration too much.
An Evening With Knives – Sense of Gravity
Some great genre-blurring rock, and a very satisfying show of a band coming into its own on their sophomore release