Monday, July 25, 2016

An Interview with DreamLongDead



As someone weirdly obsessed with the idea of R'lyehan death metal, Athens' DreamLongDead were quite a find. As evidenced by their last album AriseHowlingDarkness: Of Cyclopean Masonry & Non-Euclidean Geometry, the band has both a unique vision and some top notch songwriting; a study in creepy atmospherics as curated by HP Lovecraft and Autopsy. Vocalist/guitarist Tassos was kind enough to answer my questions and indulge my increasing Lovecraft fixation. Cthulhu Ftagn!

Wednesday, July 13, 2016

Saturday, July 9, 2016

An Interview with REBAELLIUN

Rebaelliun were part of a wave of bands that emerged at the tail end of the millennium, re-establishing death metal at the top of the metal landscape, as well as Brazil's prominence at the forefront of death metal...taking no prisoners and giving no fucks along the way. After a more than a decade, the band has returned with a brand new album - great news for fans of the true brutal daeth matel. Guitarist Fabiano Penna was kind enough to bring me up to speed over e-mail.

Saturday, July 2, 2016

Bandcamp Picks - Withered, Howls of Ebb, Mortichnia, Zhrine



After a 6 year hiatus, Withered return, joined by Ethan McCarthy of Primitive Man and Colin Marston of Dysrhythmia/Gorguts. Grief Relic sees the band doing what they do best, adding lots of atmosphere and nuance to the filth. With their unique mix of bestial and thoughtful, it's good to have Withered back. [$9.99]



Like a classic horror movie, Howls of Ebb keep things lo fi and creepy. Cursus Impasse is a take on psychedelic black/death quite unlike anything I've heard before, filled with discordant parts that wouldn't be out of place on an old Am Rep record, and lots of unsettling atmospheric interludes. One of the more intriguing bands I've heard in recent years. [€7]


It's rare that I feel compelled to listen to an album immediately after finishing it, but the debut by Ireland's Mortichnia kept reeling me back in. Heir To Scoria And Ash mixes black metal melodies, doom metal tempos and post metal nuance. A pitch black streak through the Emerald Isle. [£5]


Coming from Iceland, ZHRINE surely know a thing or two about cold and dark. Unortheta is atmospheric and expansive, but unrelenting in its bleakness. Icelandic black metal is quickly becoming the hot new thing, bands like Zhrine show that the scene isn't limited in its scope.  [$9.99]