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AYD
AYD
Four tracks, an hour, one room that sounds like a cave. The self-titled debut from this Slovenian sludge/doom/post-metal band out of Gornja Radgona builds its drama out of long hypnotic ascents and the walls of sound they collapse into.
Consecration
Exanimis
A first look at the fourth Consecration album, due on Nuclear Winter Records, judged from its two advance singles. The Norwich death/doom veterans hand the desk to Greg Chandler and come back sounding like a wall of dirt with the lights off.
Godthrymm
Projections
The Yorkshire doom band close their Visions Trilogy with a third album that brings Aaron Stainthorpe back to the microphone for one track. The songs carry the weight of a band with My Dying Bride and Anathema in their bloodline, but a loud modern master keeps getting in the way.
Downfall of Nur
And the Firmament Will Burn to Quench the Pain of this Earth
Sardinian atmospheric black metal solo project's first album in a decade, on Avantgarde Music. Seven tracks, eighty minutes, a profound reflection on the ancestral memory of Sardinia, mastered by Gabriele Gramaglia.
Fuzzrider
Desert Boogie
Athens fuzz-and-dirty-blues trio's new album — nine tracks of raw, mid-forward stoner-blues recorded with a deliberate live feel and no loudness-chasing polish.
