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Wolves in the Throne Room make a predictable return to their atmospheric black metal sound.
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Chelsea Wolfe’s foray into the slow and heavy sounds of doom/atmospheric sludge metal is admirable and mostly successful, but does come with some growing pains.
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Myrkur’s sophomore album still leaves something to be desired on the songwriting front, but is nevertheless a much better-developed product than her debut.
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Blackened doom metal outfit Primitive Man has shared “Commerce,” an epically wretched cut from their sophomore album Caustic. Hear out the track’s 12 crushing minutes above and brace for the LP’s October 6 release.
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Atmospheric black metal outfit Wolves in the Throne Room has released the epic centerpiece of its upcoming album, Thrice Woven. A slightly truncated version of “Angrboda” was premiered earlier last week by Adult Swim to coincide with the solar eclipse, but now here it is in all its glory. Thrice
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For the most part, this self-titled debut from hardcore supergroup Dead Cross offers a good balance between the genre’s original blueprint and some experimentation of their own.
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Maryland trio Dying Fetus comes through with one of the best brutal death metal albums I’ve heard since their last album back in 2012.
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Converge is back with their first pieces of new music in five years! Admittedly, the lead single “I Can Tell You About Pain” kind of strikes me as the band by the numbers, but the B-side “Eve” is fucking epic and effectively expands upon some of the slow and sludgy
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Seasoned metalcore outfit Integrity emphasizes their metal side on the dark and diverse Howling, for the Nightmare Shall Consume.
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MA stoner rock/doom metal outfit Elder impressively reinvents itself with a more progressive sound on Reflections of a Floating World.
