Album Review: Oblivion Gate – Wisdom of the Grave
There’s an episode in the latest season of Bojack Horseman in which we see death and oblivion imagined as a dark doorway, opening in a...
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Top 20 Albums of 2019: The Nigel Edition
It’s list season once more! Who can resist? After a slow start to the year, and with a few barren spots here and there, 2019...
EP Review: Vale of Amonition – Ancient, Evil & African
Vale of Amonition just might be the most bizarre metal project that I have ever come across. Based in Uganda, the duo’s style could be...
Album Review: Dead Sacraments – Celestial Throne
Dead Sacraments’ approach to doom metal reminds me of a cross between Destroyer of Light and Thronehammer. The Illinois group’s full-length debut Celestial Throne sees...
Beneath the Vault #16: Riff With Me If You Want to Live
Welcome to Beneath the Vault, a column in which we take a brief look at the many review requests we get from bands that aren’t...
Album Stream: Illimitable Dolor – Leaden Light
A little over a month after the release of their split with fellow Aussies Promethean Misery, New South Wales-based masters of all things down-tuned and...
Album Review: Ossuarium – Living Tomb
The musical equivalent of getting chocolate in your peanut butter, death/doom melds the bellowed growls of death metal, the brutally sauntering gait of doom metal,...
Album Review: Obed Marsh – Dunwich
H.P. Lovecraft could fill the pages of the volumed encyclopedias people once sold door-to-door with the amount of metal albums he’s inspired. Even the music...
Track Premiere: Comatose Vigil A.K. – “Comatose Vigil”
There’s been snow on the ground in some form or other for the better part of the last week here in Northern Indiana, and with...
Track Premiere: Sinister Downfall – “Where Solitude Prevails”
I don’t know how many of our loyal Vault Hunters have strong musical associations with the different seasons, but I generally listen to a lot...