Reviews Posts

Sept. 21, 2022

Album Review - Gnash "Shared Nightmare"

Another debut EP release review coming at you today from Gnash, a four-piece sludge band hailing from Columbus, Ohio. This is a new project from my good friend Josh Richter of Bather. He was gracious enough to send me this new project to review and …

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Sept. 19, 2022

Album Review - Abest "Molten Husk"

Although Abest’s music could be called post-metal, the band incorporate a lot more speed and ferocity into their music that that label might suggest, especially on this album. Abest blend post-metal, hardcore, grindcore and death metal into a …

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Sept. 1, 2022

Album Review - Silurian "End of Ordovicia"

After a bit of a lull, the Metal Architect is back to sling some reviews in September. Life has been hectic but good for me the past month so it is nice to get back and recommend you guys some killer new tunes. Up today is a new band called Silurian…

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Aug. 11, 2022

Video Album Review - Grotesqueries "Haunted Mausoleum"

"Short but sweet! Great death metal EP influenced by the Swedish death metal scene!" - Whispers From The Void Podcast

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July 15, 2022

Album Review - Wake "Thought Form Descent"

A hot button topic in metal is always when bands change their sound. Some don’t mind their favorite bands changing things up while others call them sellouts and fakes. I personally love to see bands evolve and put out music that they are happy…

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July 15, 2022

Album Review - White Ward "False Light"

From the darkest depths of my litterbox, I hail you, my metal peers! Ukrainian innovators White Ward are back with another dark, brooding full-length album, following on from the excellent LP Love Exchange Failure and their 2020 two-track EP Debemur…

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July 8, 2022

Video Album Review - Vomit Forth "Seething Malevolence"

"It’s filthy! A great album that is aside bands like Frozen Soul, Sanguisugabogg and 200 Stab Wounds!" - Whispers From The Void Podcast

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June 29, 2022

Album Review - Temple of Void "Summoning the Slayer"

The album is immediately recognisable as Temple of Void, with their crushing wall of guitars, rumbling bass and Mike Erdody’s cavernous death growls. What’s immediately striking, aside from the vivid album art, is how well produced this …

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June 28, 2022

Show Review - Allegaeon, Arkaik, Aenimus and Summoning the Lich at Amplified Live

On a very hot June evening, I went to check out the Terrestrial Takeover Tour featuring Allegaeon, Arkaik, Aenimus and Summoning the Lich at Amplified Live in Dallas. I have been a fan of Allegaeon for a long time since discovering the music video f…

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June 27, 2022

Album Review - Vital Spirit "Still as the Night, Cold as the Wind"

A concept album about the struggles of the Apache and Comanche peoples in the 18th and 19th Centuries, ‘Still as the Night, Cold as the Wind’ is the debut LP from two-piece Vancouver black metal outfit Vital Spirit. Following on from the…

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