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PREVIEW: New Music Friday – Rock and Metal Releases for 11-8-24
Covering all the important subgenres, it’s New Music Friday: The Rock and Metal Releases for 11-8-24
Which one of these releases are you most excited about?Continue reading
PREVIEW: New Music Friday – Rock and Metal Releases for 11-8-24
Covering all the important subgenres, it’s New Music Friday: The Rock and Metal Releases for 11-8-24
Which one of these releases are you most excited about?Continue reading
REVIEWS ROUNDUP: Indigo Raven, Witnesses, A Pale Horse Named Death, and Chrome Waves
Indigo Raven – Looking For Transcendence
Indigo Raven plays a style of Doom/Post Metal rooted in Chelsea Wolfe’s heaviest excursions, contrasting atmospherically monolithic guitar chugs and slow burn rhythms with ethereal vocals and occasional electronics. Those vocals in particular help the French trio stand out, putting on a passionately bluesy performance that differs from the more vulnerable approach of peers like Frayle and Mammoth Weed Wizard Bastard.
NEW MUSIC FRIDAY: November 5th New Music Releases
ALBUM REVIEW: Witnesses – Doom II
As hinted by the title, Doom II (Self-Released) isn’t Witnesses’ second overall album but rather their second to expand on the Doom Metal style that was established on 2019’s To Disappear And To Be Nothing. Its predecessor’s combination of glacial riffing, distraught vocals and bleak mood is well-preserved here and the overarching narrative of a ship lost at sea allows them to be conveyed even more powerfully than before. Convoluted naming conventions aside, it’s a bold leap forward by every metric.