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Video: Godhead Machinery Praise The Flesh!

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Music videos are legion. You find all sorts, usually with bands showing off in egocentric theatrics. Jumping about in wild metal bliss, as if the punk movement got some sort of satanic revival.

Only some bring real sustenance to a metal heart with its sometimes unholy hunger. Those deliver stellar film work, supported by their trademark tune. And others just bring you an intriguing sound that will stick to you like this elemental living in your attic. The one that will haunt you every night.

Godhead Machinery just released such a piece called Praise The Flesh.

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Kings of Moonshine – Iron River (2017) – Review

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Just think about alt-country and good ol’ root music. Staunch, country-fare American sounds pouring out of your loudspeakers.

Lost down in Tennessee, boozed up by too much moonshine, but still good enough to enjoy on a hot summer evening. Then again punkish lo-fi pseudo rock’n’roll aesthetics served on a Southern Comfort laced platter of a full Southern Breakfast.

And clearly, sometimes the lines between some sort of desert-tinged rock, punk, and real country are blurred and there’s trouble really getting a grip on the genre. Especially if we get disconnected country boys or established chansonniers calling in to state that … [...] Click to raid more!

Newsflash: Ov Shadows get us Monologues!

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Do you remember Darkend or Dark Portrait with their somewhat insane incantations? For both, you could just feel the Dark Lord rising to prominence or sense the arrival of the child-eating Lamia. Juicily daemonic and almost disturbing, right? So, we thought it could get no better. Or more menacing for that matter. Well, wrong – so wrong.

From the ashes of the Swedish band Waning rises Ov Shadows. And it is a cold, icy storm that their debut EP Monologues unleashes onto these unsuspecting earthlings surrounding them. 

The band seek – and I quote “…a portal into chaos without … [...] Click to raid more!

Pallbearer – Heartless (2017) – Review

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Do you remember Khemmis and their 2016 album Hunted? Or King Goat’s Conduit of that same year? These are powerful pieces of doom, saturated with tears that these guys kicked out onto the market.

Both records tend to keep your attention, even if a certain annoying lengthiness and over-complicated structures are inherent to them. But still powerful stuff nonetheless, ain’t it?

This movement toward new doom horizons seems to be the sign of the time with a number of talented newbies coming on board to take over the doom universe from the old guard. And many of them come … [...] Click to raid more!