Celluloid Dissonance

After what feels like an eternity of delays, The Everlasting Shadows finally arrives, and the biggest surprise is how comfortable it sounds in its own skin. Many veteran melodic death metal bands return after a long  ...

Three songs. No intro. No ambient filler. No cinematic bullshit. Just twenty-first-century tech-death launched directly into your frontal lobe like a railgun round ...

I’ve replayed Ingested’s Denigration an unhealthy amount of times now, and I genuinely can’t tell how much of this album is “actually incredible” and how much is me hearing the sound of a band trying not to completely   ...

Doodswens just dropped the best black metal record of the year and it’s not even fucking close to being sideswapped.  This wild creature of raw Dutch black metal bleeds at extreme volumes throughout all 7 tracks.

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Echoes is the second full-length from Ethereal Darkness, a melodic death/doom metal band from Belgium. Six tracks. Just over an hour. Atmospheric melodic death/doom buried under grief, exhaustion, loneliness, and that numb   ...

Slaughterday’s Dread Emperor sounds less like a new release and more like something somebody accidentally unearthed from a flooded basement rehearsal room in 1992. The whole album has this   ...

Iron Maiden once asked Can I Play With Madness? Stench of Sorcery answered with a battlefield full of corpses and a hard fucking yes. ...

Fields of Elysium’s In Ancient Contemplation sounds alive in a way most technical death metal records don’t anymore. Not polished-alive either. More like a band sweating through complicated ideas in a cramped room ...

Some albums feel written. Fading Aeon feels exhumed. Dragged out of frozen dirt with broken fingernails and lungs full of black water. Fading Aeon don't sound interested in being “modern.” Thank Christ. No plastic-core gloss ...

I’ve been following The Voynich Code for a while now, and Insomnia is still the record I keep going back to the most. Not because it’s their heaviest album or their most technical one. It just feels the most locked   ...