Reviews Posts

Nov. 1, 2024

Album Review - Chained to the Bottom of the Ocean "Sisyphean Cruelty"

Massachusetts-based heirs to the sludge metal throne Chained to the Bottom of the Ocean released their first full length in six years in 2023 and it was fucking awesome. Obsession Destruction was heavier, lengthier, more relentles…

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Oct. 31, 2024

Album Review - Gaerea "Coma"

At this moment, there is no other band in black metal that is hotter or hungrier than Portugal’s Gaerea. Gaerea burst onto the scene in 2018 with their debut album Unsettling Whispers. It was heavy not only musically but also emotionally. This…

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Sept. 27, 2024

Album Review - Blood Incantation "Absolute Elsewhere"

When Blood Incantation released their blippity-boop space ambient EP Timewave Zero in 2022, I felt like the only person in the universe that went like: “Hell yeah, this is great!”   Metalheads around the world were confu…

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Aug. 27, 2024

Album Review - Nails "Every Bridge Burning"

Todd Jones is an angry man and he has impossibly high standards for anything wrathful. Even though he obliterated our psyches with some of the most skull crushing riffs of all-time in legendary beatdown hardcore outfit Terror early in his career, it…

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Aug. 2, 2024

Album Review - Kayas "By the Moon and the Stars"

Over the past few years, melodic death metal has seen a resurgence. While the veterans like Dark Tranquillity, In Flames, Insomnium, and Amon Amarth are still churning out new music and touring the globe, there seems to have been a resurgence, espec…

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July 14, 2024

Video Album Review - Seth "La France Des Maudits"

"The French satanists are back with grandiose black metal! Melody and brutality with a touch revolution describe greatly this album!" - Whispers From The Void Podcast

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July 14, 2024

Album Review - Onchocerciasis Esophagogastroduodenoscopy "The Fallen Lament"

I have weird beliefs about inconsequential and thoroughly apolitical stuff. For example, I sincerely think that extreme music should have an element of danger to it. I’m not talking about life-or-death stuff like old school Mayhem, but extreme…

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June 27, 2024

Video Album Review - Stillborn "Netherworlds"

"An awesome doom gothic album by the OG of Swedish doom metal ! Big doom energy punching you relentlessly!" - Whispers From The Void Podcast

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June 11, 2024

Album Review - Apes "Penitence"

Grindcore is having a moment. Once regarded as a purgatory for the stinkiest, most disorganized and belligerent punks, it has become a hub for metal creativity over the last seven years or so through the emergence of bands like Full of Hell,&nb…

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June 8, 2024

Mochi Madness - May 2024

Greetings my fellow denizens of darkness! As the winter approaches here in the Southern Hemisphere, thought it would be a good opportunity to give you a snapshot of some of my favourite releases of 2024 so far in a new Vox and Hops segment I&rsq…

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