Demo Review: Damnation Lust – Black Book of Necromancer
The New Jersey-based collective NVNM has already established itself as a factory for high-quality demos and projects over the past several years. The extreme metal
Category : Demo Reviews
Demo Review: Shelton Chastain – The Edge of Sanity: 88 Demo Session
Considering how prolific Mark “The Shark” Shelton was in and out of Manilla Road, it was only inevitable that unrealized projects would start popping up
Demo Review: Adverso – Ex Inanis
Quick question: Do you often find yourself partial to a little bit of that black metal? Same here. So, what’s your preferred poison – frilly,
Demo Review: Throne of Iron – 2018 Demo
There are only a few people I know who can weave gold out of mere thread. Tucker Thomasson (Thorr-Axe, Crowtein, Avakr) is a mad drunken
Demo Review: Porunga – Porunga
Porunga’s self-titled demo is an odd little hodgepodge. The grindingly slow riffs on the appropriately titled “Invocation of Doom” and the slinking sludge that persists
Demo Review: Exulansis – Cyclical Sentient Struggle
Even though only less than a year passed between the release of Demo MMXVI and their second demo Cyclical Sentient Struggle, there’s been some serious
EP Review: Bridegeist – Waste of Kings
Based in Wichita, Kansas, Bridegeist’s debut EP offers a particularly raw take on the heavy/doom hybrid that has been recently developing. Like emerging giants Khemmis
Demo Review: SVRM – 7 (Reissue)
Even though we’ve covered a fair number of bands from the region here at the Vault, I don’t know that anyone has ever tried to
Demo Review: Canid – MMXVII
Not quite sure how it happened, but I’m suddenly getting a lot of music sent my way by small black metal cassette labels. I’m definitely
Demo Review: Arcane Frost – Cosmic Winter
The challenge in reviewing a demo is that you’re basically trying to evaluate two different bands: the one on the recording itself, and the one