It’s been a good long while since I’ve heard an album with as many moments that made me stop in my tracks and say “wait…how the fuck did he just pull that off?” as there are on Forever Resonating in Blood, the forthcoming sophomore full-length from New [...]
Thus far, 2017 has been an outstanding year for basically all sub-genres of black metal. I don’t know if any label is having a better year in terms of black metal releases, though, than Germany’s Vendetta Records. Back in March, they released Woe’s latest [...]
Dearly beloved: We are gathered here today to give thanks and praise to the one thing that brings meaning to our wretched existences. That sacred thing that—regardless of who we are, where we come from, or whose t-shirt we’re currently wearing— unites us [...]
Anyone can be sad. But not everyone can turn that sadness into something transcendent. What’s the difference? Call it the contrast between having something explained to you and being made to feel that same thing deep inside your bones. There are a lot of [...]
It seems like the longer I write about music, the more I come to appreciate the truly thought-provoking bands. I mention this up front because I realize that the headline on this article says that it’s supposed to be a premiere of the song “Bestial [...]
Every once in a while something comes across the Vault desk that is just so unique and special that it demands my undivided attention. The most recent example is Swedish progressive rock band Hällas, whose initial self-titled EP gained a lot of [...]
No discussion of the most innovative musicians in extreme metal is complete without mentioning Japanese guitarist Takafumi Matsubara. Over the course of three albums with avant-technical grinders Gridlink, Matsubara’s playing consistently pushed against [...]
Indianapolis has become world renowned for its bands in the doom/stoner genre, but you might not know that we’re also home to some phenomenal death metal. One of the newer acts to hit our radar this year is Obscene. Made up of Indy scene veterans, they’re [...]
