Album Reviews

Magnetic Eye Records Celebrates 10 Years With Day Of Doom Live Concert Albums

I could either completely exhaust myself and do four separate reviews of the albums that represent 2019’s Day Of Doom live showcase at Brooklyn’s Saint Vitus Bar heading towards the end of releases in 2020 when most are shifting their focus to year end lists and preview pieces…or just do [...]

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Doom, Desert Rawk, and Black Metal Collide On Fiery Debut Release From Oldblood

A brutal, breathing behemoth in four parts which is beyond epic, Oldblood’s debut EP release has more masterful Metal within its’ short space than many a full-length released this year.

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Pothamus Create Post-Sludge Magic On Ferocious Raya

Filling ALL your monolithic epic banger quotas this fall, the latest from Belgian Post-Sludgelords Pothamus is monumentally monolithic. It’s huge! It’s heavy! It’s heavenly! It’s all the adjectives and adverbs and, quite simply, astounding.

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Scour Complete Caustic Trilogy With Controlled Chaos Of The Black EP

Scour is a weird animal. Mixing a variety of genres yet grounded in none of them, Phil Anselmo’s band of brothers take Metal, Grindcore, Black Metal, and more and fuse it into this unstoppable, indefinable force. On their newest release, and final part of the trilogy preceded by The Grey [...]

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Tairrie B Returns With A Call To Arms On Feminenergy

2020 is a garbage year. We can all agree on that, yeah? One of the shining lights, at least in my little corner of the universe, has been the abundance of surprise releases in the entertainment industry. Especially in music. Just recently saw eclectic Electronic impresario Tom Vek (Check it [...]

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Why Try? Enlighten And Entice On Exciting Just Fine EP

Why Try? make the kind of music that not only demands to be heard but also demands repeated listens. With each listen of their upcoming EP, Just Fine, layers are continually pulled back to reveal sounds that are more delicate and more delightful with these subtle intricacies becoming more pronounced [...]

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