Despite my preference for more abrasive metal, Lunar Shadow have created an album that'll be on the top of my playlist for a long, long time. Give these guys a listen if you like addictive dual guitar riffs and vocals that will have you longing to lose yourself in an Elven forest, never to return.
Don't let the ambient guitar riffs at the beginning fool you, this is a devastating doom track from one of the genre's best bands. If planets could mourn, this is what it would sound like.
On 'Vortex,' the Howling Wind sound the ugliest they have since 'Pestilence and Peril.' If you felt like their last album, 'Of Babylon,' didn't quite make your ears bleed enough, then this one should do the trick.
If Robocop ever started a band with The Toxic Avenger, then I'm pretty sure this is the album they would create. On Manifest Decimation, Power Trip revise the thrash formula to create something violently unique.
Come for Cough's opening eighteen minute track, 'Athame,' and stay for the two punishing Windhand tracks that follow. This is a masterful display of tortured, desperate doom. Ritual suicide has never sounded so enticing.
I rarely go more than a few days without listening to this masterpiece of devastation. If the mournful riffs on this album don't push you over the edge, then the lyrics most certainly will. Proceed with caution.
Are you alone, alienated, or estranged? Do you often experience a mild unease while surrounded by your fellow man? If so, you'll find Holy Sons to be your perfect companion. This collection of B-Sides is what happens when folk music is filtered through modern man's self-defeating anxiety.
