After nearly three decades, Spread The Disease returns with their brand of blackened metalcore in The Darkness. The Dread. The Suffering (Hypaethral Records). Over a half hour of harsh Noise, Black Metal riffs, Metalcore riffs, and a few spicy breakdowns cover a wide variety of tastes in a mixture of varying ratios from song to song.
Lengthy gaps between albums are becoming quite the custom with Norwegian symphonic black metal act Dimmu Borgir. Not satisfied with the eight-year absence between Abrahadabra and 2018’s Eonian, the band took the same amount of time to write and produce a new record, Grand Serpent Rising (Nuclear Blast Records), before finally unleashing it upon an expectant corpse-painted world. Continue reading
Best known for combining belligerent heaviness with emotionally charged atmospheres and in-depth progressions, Chicago Death-Doom unit Novembers Doom have always been one to produce sounds that are difficult to categorize into certain binaries– to define is to limit, after all! Continue reading