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Daidalos – The Expedition Review
Symphonic black metal has never been a genre I’ve spent much time exploring. While I appreciate the determination it takes to wed two disparate musical approaches together, I’ve often found the...
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Freedom of Fear – Carpathia [Things you Might Have Missed 2022]
As the year grinds to a close, it is time to reflect on the rich heavy music landscape of 2022 and unload the Things You Might Have Missed tradition. Released in October, the sophomore full-length from...
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Syn Ze Şase Tri – Ultimu’ lup [Things You Might Have Missed 2022]
Romania’s Syn Ze Şase Tri has been around since 2011, with too much of that time spent in a level of obscurity that I struggle to understand. While their debut, 2011’s Între două lumi, had serious...
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…and Oceans – As in Gardens, So in Tombs Review
2020 saw the overdue restoration of Finland’s …and Oceans, lost to the wastes for nearly 20 years despite their earliest music releasing in parallel with such peers as Emperor and Dimmu Borgir. Cosmic...
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Keep of Kalessin – Katharsis Review
Despite the positive review we gave to Epistemology, Norway’s Keep of Kalessin polarizes the rowdy AMG staff. For reasons I can’t fathom, despite the band’s 30-year history and commercial success,...
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Hasard – Malivore Review
AMG.com has had mixed feelings about the musical work of ‘Hazard,’ the enigmatic songwriter behind Les Chants du Hasard. Claiming fatigue from this project following its most recent album, Hazard...
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The Circle – Of Awakening Review
The conveyance of majesty in metal is ubiquitous. While historically reveling in density and muck, the more extreme faces of black and death create stately and impressive displays of grandiosity with...
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Sodomisery – Mazzaroth Review
Regardless of how stupid you think the name is, Sodomisery excited me back in 2020. Though their debut record, The Great Demise, didn’t blow my mind, I could feel potential there. So, when this year’s...
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Night Crowned – Tales Review
Ever since they smashed onto the scene with their 2020 debut Impious Viam, following up on the more quietly well-received EP Humanity Will Echo Out, Night Crowned have presented an almost ideal example...
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冷 –日落 Review
Rare is the promo we receive for extreme metal out of Taiwan, save for the odd gross slam record. Naturally, getting any promo from a region not particularly well known in the West for their burgeoning...
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Stuck in the Filter – November/December’s Angry Misses
It is time for the new year, and yet we spend its initial moments reflecting on works of the past. That’s because the works of the past are clogging up our damn Filter, and we need that to breathe in...
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Stuck in the Filter: March 2024’s Angry Misses
While it was cold and gloomy just a couple weeks before writing, now it’s blisteringly hot and humid. Such is the transition from February to April in the land of Ken. It’s May now, of course, so we...
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Seth – La France des Maudits Review
Ever since they blazed back onto the scene with 2021’s La Morsure du Christ, Seth have been the picture of a perfect comeback. This break from their second long hiatus, a shaken-up lineup in tow,...
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Wraithfyre – Of Fell Peaks and Haunted Chasms Review
Not that I’m the biggest symphonic black aficionado out there, but the UK-based Wraithfyre appealed to me because its name and inconsistent uses of i’s and y’s reflected my band in high school.1...
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