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OSR: January 15th, 2016

by Dæv Tremblay
Sealclubber returns with Stoical, a very energetic and heavy album drawing influences on both crust punk and sludge metal, a very fun listen! The album comes out February 5th.
Tectum Argenti is a progressive and melodic instrumental metal album with slight djent influences from Divine Realm and there’s no shortcoming of technical musicianship either. A melodic death metal album from 2012 with various Middle-Eastern influences, especially in the wonderful folk song “Iram of the Pillars”. The Purge EP comes out March 7th, but “Innocent Blood” is on it. Cabal makes a very heavy and angry blackened deathcore sound fit… Read more

The Very Best of 2015 (According to Us)

by Dæv Tremblay

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So, 2015 has come and gone such as a gust of wind inside the empty halls of our lives in which we blindly crawl, writhing until we fall to our death in one of the unforeseeable traps set up by the mad architect of this edifice. But at least, we have music to make our aimless trip more bearable. So, what artists and albums shone this year? We asked our team to come up with their picks, so there they are: the very best of 2015.

Lefteris Kefalas

2015 started off as a promising year but it concluded with many … Read more

OSR: January 9th, 2016

by Dæv Tremblay
Let’s begin with a 2011 album because why not. And it’s not even metal, for a change! Rather, it’s a fantastic funky neo-soul EP that you should definitely grab to add some colour to your all-black music library. Ghost Horizon previewed this song for their upcoming album; I’ll surely listen to it when it comes out! A very enjoyable mosh-inducing hardcore album; reminds me of my teen days in an unashamed manner. A rock-solid combination of black metal and sludge. This thing is Osmium-heavy, and just friggin’ great! Super-violent deathgrind. 6 minutes of unfiltered powerviolence. An interesting sort of blackgaze… Read more

Amogh Symphony release Aai, from their upcoming album IV

by Dæv Tremblay

A song about mothers of this world, and of Onamika, which you’ll remember from previous Amogh songs. On IV, they’re ditching the whole “concept album” things, and rather go for an “album of concepts”. Each song is like a soundtrack to a short movie, and we can appreciate that with Aai. The song draws strong connections with world music, as well as jazz, and with a touch of metal too. I think it’s wildly successful at what it wants to be, and I honestly can’t wait to hear more from Amogh IV.… Read more

OSR: January 5th, 2016

by Dæv Tremblay

Let’s start off this year, shall we?

First up is Trivalent‘s second full-length album, Norms and Values. It’s quite interesting and features four tripartite songs but the synthesized sounds of it just kills it.
Then comes Cold Night for Alligators‘s new album, Course of Events, coming out on the eleventh. Very good and out-of-the-box djent, but it feels less experimental than their previous material overall. I finally got to buy Ur Draugr‘s new album, With Hunger Undying. It’s generally what you’d want from a sequel to “The Wretched Ascetic”, but sometimes the snare will… Read more