Year: 2025Label: Zoharum The previous album by The Stargazer’s Assistant we reviewed was 2023’s Fire Worshipper (here). Compared to the group’s new album, that was positively on the nose with its themes, though – as we wrote at the time … Continue reading THE STARGAZER’S ASSISTANT: Modular Fields
Year: 2025Label: Rebellion Records/Cosmic Key Creations Metal and punk have never had a harmonious coexistence, though they have always cross-pollinated each other. Metalheads have sneered at the crudeness and perceived lack of musicianship in punk, and conversely punks have mocked … Continue reading STORM OF STEEL: Storm Of Steel
Year: 2025Label: Xtreem Music Some two years ago, we reviewed Colombian death metal act Funeral Vomit’s debut album (here). Our conclusion was that the band had nailed the style, but lacked the songs to carry their sonic aesthetic home. Now … Continue reading FUNERAL VOMIT: Upheaval Of Necromancy
Year: 2025Label: Obelisk Polaris Productions Death/doom is a wide spectrum, ranging from Winter’s crust/hardcore influenced lurching heaviness, to Coffins’ Hellhammer-style boneheaded heaviness, to beyond. In the larger spectrum, an odd sort of outlier is the romantic, gothic style of death/doom … Continue reading SOLUS REX: Scenes From Yonder Life
In one way or another, the creative arts have essentially always been divided in two. The names and criteria of classification have varied through time, but there has always been a pronounced if not universal drive to divide art into … Continue reading Metaphysics matter: on the significance of more philosophical writing about music
Year: 2025Label: Rot ‘Em Records To set the context of this review, I’m going to quote what the promo sheet says about this EP. Here goes: “Reincarnation is a tribute to old school death metal, while at the same time … Continue reading HELLWALKER: Reincarnation
Year: 2023Label: self-released I suppose you could say US act Maligna Cerebra play with an open hand. The project’s name translates to “malignant brain”, the name of this EP length release to “deathly pallor.” These, and the cover image of … Continue reading MALIGNA CEREBRA: Pallor Mortis
Year: 2025Label: Aristae/Only The Sun Knows Flammenlieder is an interesting series of releases curated by German neofolk act Leger Des Heils. The first was an album by Leger Des Heils, whilst the second was a three-track compilation featuring alongside the … Continue reading V/A: Flammenlieder MMXXV
Year: 2015/2025Label: Long Live Evil This year has been an active one for US horrorcore trio Alla Xul Elu. In total, members of AXE released three albums: the group proper’s Gods Of Evil Rise (review), Billy Obey’s Rhymebook Of The … Continue reading ALLA XUL ELU: Sci Co Volume One
Year: 2025Label: Prophecy I’ll be honest: prior to this album, I’d heard maybe one song by Hexvessel, so this review isn’t exactly based on an in-depth knowledge of their past discography. But then again, up until recently, the band played … Continue reading HEXVESSEL: Nocturne
Only Death Is Real 