New Heaven, Inter Arma’s anticipated new album, is a compelling testament to perseverance, top to bottom. The album releases April 26th, 2024 via their long-time label Relapse Records. Its thicket of ever-dense layers of doom, death, and black metal occasionally let bits of light slip in, fleeting reminders to keep going amid the tumult. The record marks a sharp turn for Inter Arma, showcasing some of the most extreme and angular songwriting the band has ever laid bare. Known for their cinematic take on sludgy, extremely cavernous, and borderline psychedelic Metal, the Richmond band broadens their dynamics by seesawing between piledriving momentum and swirling oblivion. New Heaven crushes and conquers, and illustrates what Inter Arma can truly be. Stream “New Heaven” now and pre-order the album now.Continue reading
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Iron Monkey Share New Single and Video for “Misanthropizer” and Announce New Album
UK sludge legends, Iron Monkey, have returned, announcing their new album, Spleen & Goad. It is due out April 05th through Relapse Records, on LP, CD, and digital formats. In addition, the band have unleashed the first single and video from the full-length, “Misanthropizer.” Watch it in the article below and read more from Iron Monkey.
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EP REVIEW: Wolves In The Throne Room – Crypt Of Ancestral Knowledge
A mere two years removed from the fifty-minute colossus that is Primordial Arcana, Wolves In The Throne Room have undertaken a full 180 with Crypt Of Ancestral Knowledge (Relapse Records). The four-track extended play is spearheaded by “Beholden To Clan”, and is supplemented by three instrumental-dominant tracks.
ALBUM REVIEW: Final Gasp – Mourning Moon
Let’s be straight up: Final Gasp’s debut Mourning Moon (Relapsev Records) is a great album, but going into this we need to be clear in what we expect from it. The album cover, and marketing hype around this album makes you think it’s the second coming of Type O Negative. This is not the case. They draw inspiration from one of my favorite eras of punk rock…the mid eighties. This is when bands like T.S.O.L. and Die Kruzen took a darker turn in a more shadowy direction.
EP REVIEW: Monolord – It’s All the Same
Gothenburg might be famous for its renowned death metal scene, but few might have heard of doom metal bands hailing from the said town of At the Gates and In Flames. Say no more, because the doom outfit Monolord return with their new EP It’s All the Same (Relapse Records), shining a light once more on the Gothenburg doom scene!
ALBUM REVIEW: Dying Fetus – Make Them Beg For Death
The story of Dying Fetus is one for the storybooks, indeed. Formed in 1991 (and spawning Misery Index in the process), guitarist/vocalist John Gallagher chose the name in jest with the sole purpose of raising ire and eyebrows.
ALBUM REVIEW: Incantation – Unholy Deification
Incantation is one of the most influential death metal bands of all time. This legacy rests on the shoulders of guitarist John McEntee, who is the sole original member. To his credit, McEntee has been playing with the rest of the band long enough to build the kind of chemistry to make this feel like Incantation even in the absence of Craig Pillard, who went on to form Disma.
Myrkur Shares a New Single and Video “Like Humans” – New Album Incoming
Myrkur Photo By Gobinder Jhitta, used with permission
Chameleon-like Norse-Pagan Folk artist Myrkur has shared a new single and video for the moody and aggressive track “Like Humans!” Her new album Spine arrives via Relapse Records on October, 20th, 2023 in a variety of formats. Pre-orders are live below. Watch the video and pre-order the album now!
ALBUM REVIEW: Outer Heaven – Infinite Psychic Depths
Powered by an insatiable appetite for thoughtful tempos and laborious aggression, Outer Heaven exhausts everything they have with Infinite Psychic Depths (Relapse Records), eleven songs rife with bombastic energy and acidic vocals.
ALBUM REVIEW: End Reign – The Way Of All Flesh Is Decay
It would be redundant to label End Reign an angry band. Metal tends to breed a dime a dozen of those. And metallic hardcore isn’t a previously untapped subgenre. Besides, the two have probably worked in tandem long before we subdivided every possible combination for the sake of clarity.