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Darker Ages Ahead
Trébuchet SDG
Brace yourself for majestic, mighty melodic medieval black metal.
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HOLY
xDOULOSx
Holy means set apart, and HOLY sounds like a band that knows exactly who it belongs to.
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The Infinite Piano Hall
Tephra
Loving what came before is part of being human, and remembering it well is a kind of gratitude. But a good love out of order becomes a trap, and The Infinite Piano Hall paints a beautiful, gentle picture of that trap: a ballroom where the music never stops, and nobody ever goes home.
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The Gospel
rebornwithfire
The Gospel carries the whole story of Scripture from the garden to the new creation in under twenty-five minutes, and what a glorious, brutal, caveman-chuggalug-fueled twenty-five minutes it is.
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Schemerfluisteringen (I) / La Mythe de Sisyphe
Various Artists
Autumn black metal season is officially open, and Schemerfluisteringen (I) / La Mythe de Sisyphe kicks it off with a split that sounds like a long night under a stormy sky.
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The Tale of Vlad Țepeș part 2
Days ov Yore
The promise holds: "no fantasy or vampire tales here." What changes is the scale of the album and sound, as Days ov Yore pushes the whole production toward full-blown epic theater.
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American Silence
US Golft 95
American Silence joins a long vaporwave habit of looking at the United States from the outside, through a screen, where the mall and the cul-de-sac blur into one exported dream.
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A Dry and Thirsty Land
NMDS_HxC
NMDS’ new release, A Dry and Thirsty Land, combines all the right elements for a powerful and exciting hardcore record, and it has become one of my favorite releases of the year so far.
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The Prince Of This World And Death Are Fleeting
Eternal Gaze
The Prince Of This World And Death Are Fleeting features nine tracks in fifty minutes, with a collaboration with Heffernoise on synth, and shows how he has tackled more numinous, ethereal territory in creative, inventive ways. It’s truly a standout album from the artist, a grittier record, and the Christian extreme metal scene at large.
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Wedding Photos
Pieti
Like all great albums, Wedding Photos transforms themes of deception into sacrifice, darkness into beatitude, and goes out the far side toward worship and family.
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Going Home
Latter Day Exploits
Do you feel like cranking up some doom metal for the next thirty-nine minutes? And you're aware that means only four songs? Latter Day Exploits' recent album, Going Home, runs that deep, and every song moves like a massive storm.
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Callenwood Wavefinder
tottomori
Callenwood Wavefinder is for reading with a warm cup of coffee or daydreaming about the first cool summer night. That may sound slight, but it isn't.