Tag Archives: death

News: Journal drums preview

by Dæv Tremblay

Journal drummer Justin Tvetan just posted this update on the band’s new album! These are live drums and they sound incredible! Unlorja was – and still is – one of the best technical albums ever! With an esoteric mix of grind, death, math, core, neoclassical, and various other genres, the conceptual album is a good 50 minutes of the most intense stuff you’ve ever heard, plus a 30 minute narrative retelling of the story, accompanied by music.

Journal 3 (unofficial title) surely sounds promising as hell, and it’s definitely one album we’re awaiting with great impatience, and even greater expectations, … Read more

News: Pangaea – The Balance music video

by Dæv Tremblay

Pangaea recently released a music video for a song on their upcoming album, which has yet to be announced. The song in itself is really cool, and slowly, really slowly, builds on, progressively becoming heavier, and more complex, while going back to some smoother or more proggy moment from time to time. The band’s previous album, Unified, although pretty cool overall, didn’t have the drive or the originality of The Balance. So, we’re definitely looking forward to Pangaea’s new album, if this song is any indication of its overall quality. Even though the song isn’t perfect, there’s a … Read more

News: Alkaloid – Cthulu

by Dæv Tremblay

New supergroup Alkaloid released a new song, Cthulu, today.

If you want our point of view, it’s a pretty interesting piece of music! Great leads with lots of dissonance and a sweet solo section. However, the rest of the song maybe sounds too much general, in terms of riffs, drum beats and vocal rendition.

We persist in thinking that The Malkuth Grimoire will be a decent to great album, but the hopes of it being absolutely amazing are falling with each release. So, I think we should expect a good album, but not an earth-shattering masterpiece.… Read more

News: New song from Der Weg Einen Freiheit

by Dæv Tremblay

[Stream the track here]

The German post-metal bands with various influences such as black metal and hardcore Der Weg Einer Freihet premieres their new track Requiem on Metal-Hammer.de. This track makes us even more avid of listening to their upcoming album Stellar.

You can listen to their previous album teaser here.… Read more

Review: Ur Draugr – The Wretched Ascetic

by Dæv Tremblay
Australia seems to be a great spawning point for good dissonant heavy metal, Ulcerate and Ne Obliviscaris being the two most obvious examples. Ur Draugr falls between these two bands in sound. Being on one hand relying on dissonance a lot and on the other hand progressive and black metal.

Often taking one idea, or riff, or motif, and building on it, applying it in different environments and dislocating it in a lot of ways. The mind(s) of the band really know how to craft a song so it’s a continuous flow, evolving and keeping our interest up. With a … Read more