Lustmord and Karin Park Lose Themselves in the Ambient Beauty of ‘Alter’
Sceneries come and go, landscapes evolve, and time loses its meaning through the passages of Lustmord and Karin Park’s Alter.
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Summer is upon us, and we have some heavy tunes to go with it.
Lustmord & Park – ‘Alter’ (album premiere)
Lustmord & Park’s Alter descends into the dark ambient abyss without forgetting minimal music’s ethereal nature. Hear it a day early.
MetalMatters: The Best New Heavy Albums of May 2021
Lockdowns are slowly easing, the heatwave is getting closer, and May fully delivered with an abundance of heavy releases.
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Filled with venomous riffs, a cold-detached precision, and a sharp dissonant edge, Decoherence’s System I is a haunting work of extravagant black metal.
MetalMatters: The Best New Heavy Metal Albums of April 2021
This month in metal: Spectral Lore push progressive black metal’s boundaries, post-rock pioneers Godspeed You! Black Emperor return, and modern thrashers Evile tweak their sound to arise after eight long years.
MetalMatters: The Best New Heavy Metal Albums of March 2021
This month in metal, Grindcore explorers Genghis Tron return, Krallice and Mare Cognitum push black metal to the extremes and sludge pioneers Eyehategod strike again.
MetalMatters: The Best New Heavy Metal Albums of February 2021
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MetalMatters: The Best New Heavy Metal Albums of January 2021
Wardruna investigate Scandinavian folk dimensions, the Body forge an assault of extravagant noise and distortion, and Portrayal of Guilt eloquently cross over between hardcore and extreme metal.
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MetalMatters: The Best Metal Albums of December 2020
Post-rock legends Jesu return after seven years, chameleonic rockers Boris collaborate once more with noise fiend Merzbow, and Dan Barrett unleashes Black Wing's sophomore record.
The 20 Best Metal Albums of 2020
One of the main vehicles helping us during these crazy times is music. Heavy, experimental, interesting you name it. Experimentalism is thankfully on the rise, as boundaries are still pushed and new realms are explored.