Album Review: Horndal – Head Hammer Man

Horndal - Head Hammer ManApril 5th, 2024Progressive Sludge MetalProsthetic RecordsStockholm, Sweden Head Hammer Man is the third full length record from Swedish heavy metal outfit Horndal. Before this year I had never heard of this band, and it was thanks to my friend and bandmate Tyler who showed them to me that this album has …

Album Review: Omnivide – A Tale of Fire

"Tearing my own flesh down to the bone, such pain to erase all I’ve ever known." Omnivide - A Tale of FireMarch 22nd, 2024Progressive / Technical / Symphonic Death MetalIndependently ReleasedMoncton, New Brunswick, Canada Moncton is perhaps an unlikely place to expect to hear the brand of music represented in the mainstream by such bands …

Album Review: Sleepytime Gorilla Museum – Of the Last Human Being

"The last human being in the world is an ape, but it's worthy of your consideration." Sleepytime Gorilla Museum - Of the Last Human BeingFebruary 23rd, 2024Avant-Garde Metal / Brutal Prog / Experimental RockIndependently ReleasedOakland, California, USA There are very few people who I've spoken to in real life who have ever heard of this …

Discography Deep Dive: Isis – Wavering Radiant

"Eyes are shut, feet are bare, for this journey I'm unprepared." Isis - Wavering RadiantMay 5th, 2009Atmospheric Sludge Metal / Post Metal / Progressive MetalIpecac RecordingsBoston, Massachusetts, USA So we've come to the final entry in Isis' main series of records, Wavering Radiant. How fitting it is that this segment always deals with five records …

Discography Deep Dive: Isis – In the Absence of Truth

Isis - In the Absence of TruthOctober 31st, 2006Atmospheric Sludge Metal / Post Metal / Progressive MetalIpecac RecordingsBoston, Massachusetts, USA Coming into the fourth album from American post metal quintet Isis we're greeted with an album title and cover art that differs from the expected formula for the first time in the band's discography. Instead …

Discography Deep Dive: Isis – Panopticon

"Our skin worn thin, our bones exposed, life reduced to ticks." Isis - PanopticonOctober 19th, 2004Atmospheric Sludge Metal / Post Metal / Progressive MetalIpecac RecordingsBoston, Massachusetts, USA So we come to the third full length record in Isis' career, 2004's Panopticon, which dropped two years after their previous effort, Oceanic. Immediately one look at the …

Discography Deep Dive: Isis – Oceanic

"All in a day, it changes everything." Isis - OceanicSeptember 17th, 2002Atmospheric Sludge Metal / Post MetalIpecac RecordingsBoston, Massachusetts, USA Two years after the band's first full length effort they would return with their sophomore LP, Oceanic. Boasting an even longer runtime that would eclipse an hour, it was also the band's first outing on …

Discography Deep Dive: Isis – Celestial

"Do you ever get that feeling that you're sinking." Isis - CelestialJuly 19th, 2000Post Metal / Progressive / Atmospheric Sludge MetalEscape Artist RecordsBoston, Massachusetts, USA A group like Isis likely needs no introduction, but I'm going to do it anyways. The perhaps unfortunately named group who took their identity from the Egyptian goddess and would …

Album Review: Chapel of Disease – Echoes of Light

"And with heart, I'll destroy all worlds, and with grave, I'll make mine burn." Chapel of Disease - Echoes of LightFebruary 9th, 2024Progressive / Blackened Heavy MetalVán RecordsCologne, Germany I hadn't heard of Chapel of Disease up until this year with the release of this, their fourth full length record, Echoes of Light. From what …

Album Review: Ihsahn – Ihsahn

"And I could have stayed there, within the confines of order." Ihsahn - IhsahnFebruary 16th, 2024Progressive / Symphonic Black MetalCandlelight RecordsNotodden, Norway Despite being a huge fan of Ihsahn I have actually yet to talk about the Norwegian black metal alumnus' solo career in depth on this here blog as of yet. That is, until …