Weekly rundown February 24 – 2023
A week exploring dark and hostile realms, opening the floodgates for a surge of destructive, yet cathartic emotion to wash over the world.
Read More Weekly rundown February 24 – 2023Tag: new metal releases
Weekly rundown February 17 – 2023
A week of bands trying to overwhelm you, be it with progressive shape-shifting, dizzying technicality, a chameleonic style display or an overload of speed and aggression. Take your pick.
Read More Weekly rundown February 17 – 2023Weekly rundown February 10 – 2023
This week seems to be about all forms of death metal save the actual core version of the subgenre. Doom, melodic, technical and progressive are all at the forefront though.
Read More Weekly rundown February 10 – 2023Weekly rundown February 03 – 2023
We kickstart February with a compact delivery of seriously high quality content. Doom dominates at the top, showing off the full extent of its versatility, each record pulling you into a separate, vast universe to explore it at a haste-free pace.
Read More Weekly rundown February 03 – 2023Weekly rundown January 27 – 2023
A landslide of a week where death and black metal goes toe to toe with prog, fielding some worthy contenders that easily stand out of the masses.
Read More Weekly rundown January 27 – 2023Weekly rundown January 20 – 2023
A hard-hitting week that leans heavily into the gothic and gloomy. But it’s not all sullen darkness, as a few splashes of striking color and groove make up the perfect counterbalance.
Read More Weekly rundown January 20 – 2023Weekly rundown January 13 – 2023
As the metal engine coughs into life after its eggnog-induced slumber, all sorts of weird and wonderful things tumble out of its delivery system.
Read More Weekly rundown January 13 – 2023Weekly rundown January 06 – 2023
Black and dark metal sweep in from the tail end of last year, crossing the threshold of 2023 like an icy gust from a door left open. But there is also more vibrant life peeking out from below the layer of frost.
Read More Weekly rundown January 06 – 2023Weekly rundown December 30 – 2022
For the last drop of 2022, black metal sneaks in like a malevolent shade to bring some gloom to the new year celebrations. Perhaps appealing to the typical mood of the day after.
Read More Weekly rundown December 30 – 2022Weekly rundown December 23 – 2022
The second to last week of the year is a mini serving of proggy and experimental delicacies – some melodic, some dark, some outright nuts.
Read More Weekly rundown December 23 – 2022
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