Album Review: Chaotic Upheaval by Pronostic

Canadian tech/progressive death metal outfit, Pronostic, return this May with their second full-length album, the forty-two minute Chaotic Upheaval. Self-published, it’s the band’s first full-length release since 2015’s incredible An Atomic Decision. Reviving their aggressive take on Quebeçois tech, the album features ten outstanding tracks that showcase a spectacular revisiting of the band’s athletic instrumentation, […]

Album Review: A Waning Light by Felgrave

I’ve found it hard to say anything about this album which I’ve had in my arsenal for several weeks now. It stumped me, to be honest I do enjoy this album a great deal, I just haven’t known what to say about it exactly, besides “yeah, this is really good”. Felgrave is a one-man Death-Doom […]

Yass-Waddah: This Reality Is Just A Deception Album Review

On July 15 of this year, Yass-Waddah of the beautiful, volcanic Canary Islands released their second full length album, This Reality Is Just A Deception. Yass-Waddah caught some well-deserved attention in the underground metal world on their ambitious 2018 release, Light in the Murk, for employing a star-studded lineup including Hannes Grossmann (Hate Eternal), Clemens […]

Shadowborn: Eclipse(d) EP Review

Early this month Shadowborn entered the studio to record the follow up to their debut EP, End of an Age, and then wasted no time in releasing a single – Blood Moon – on August 8, while announcing their plans to release the full EP entitled Eclipse(d) later this month on August 21. Shadowborn are […]

Album Review: Escape from Civilization by Echidna

Echidna is a progressive death metal band, formed in Thessaloniki, Greece, in 2004 by Giannis Chionidis (drums), Nikos Parastatidis (guitars) and Panos Bouklis (guitars). In 2005, Nikos Metaxas (bass) and Theo Deligiannidis (vocals) joined, and the band started composing their own songs. In 2005/2006 they recorded their first demo, “This Suffering”, followed up by live […]

Album Review: Limb Hymns by Cynicism

Releasing just in time for the July 3 bandcamp event where the service waives their profit sharing for artists, Boston’s Cynicism releases this illustrious debut album of grind-laden, gore-filled death metal songs with “Limb Hymns”. This album is an excellent collection of death metal songs that are sure to please anyone who is a fan […]

EP Review: Ascension by Thirsting Altar

Black metal serves the purpose of exploring the darkest parts of human nature. It gives voice to primitive dark emotions that we no longer have adequate names for. It’s a feeling most humans try to forget. Those of us that embrace our darker elements are drawn to these most extreme forms of music. If you’re […]

Lesser Glow’s Nullity will Devastate and Crush Your Soul; a review.

Every now and then, I hear an album that’s exactly what I need at that exact moment. And that’s what happened to me yesterday when I first listened to Lesser Glow’s new album Nullity. I saw these guys in Rochester back in July of 2018 at the Bug Jar playing with Rochester’s own Halothane, Blurring […]

Halothane: A Serpent’s Gaze review and interview

Halothane’s second full length album The Serpent’s Gaze is due to be released on May 30th. They’ve released it’s first track “Threads of Authenticity”, which I was given the pleasure of premiering on this week’s episode of Grim Dystopian podcast and is now available for streaming on their bandcamp. For me this is an exciting […]

Album Review: LP01 by Homecoming

I am just brimming with joy to bring to you this review today, of this incredible debut album from a self-proclaimed “post-whatever” metal band from Paris, France. It was actually released at the beginning of December of 2019. It’s no surprise that I missed it, because I often don’t find these amazing underground releases until […]