Brain Famine is an exciting local Massachusetts prospect which performs an explosive melding of death, grind and thrash, meticulously sculp...

Occasionally a record will come along with so much obvious effort and variation put into it that it feels like the band really planned out s...

Acédia hails from the Quebec black metal scene without necessarily conforming to its peers there, not there that has every been a particula...

Hyrgal would be an easy band to go unnoticed in a lineup, what with their simple and minimalistic album covers and the fact that they perfo...

Off for my annual Summer break, will return this October for a month of Horror Metal reviews! Beware the water. - autothrall

Judging by the intro "Sempiternal Grotesqueries", you'd think that Hooded Menace were continuing to pursue the ponderous, slo...

Darkness Drips Forth  sounds partly like an experiment by Hooded Menace to flirt with a more funereal doom sound, not that it's quick t...

Gloom Immemorial is a fine example of what you get with a compilation when the band/label actually cares about the band's audience and ...

The intro to this record had a really unexpected flair to it, a mix of almost cinematic, mounting percussion, operatic background and ritual...

I am all about the Ancient World, and England's Imperium are all about taking all of that history, that conquest and culture and archit...