Teitanblood – The Baneful Choir (Released 2019) If we consider Black Sabbath's mission statement as a foundational text for the genre as a whole, metal is supposed to be scary in the same way horror movies are. Obviously, that thread has been lost in this post-Dokken world, and if you ask me, it's also obvious … Continue reading Obscure Metal Roundup 9
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Obscure Metal Roundup VI
REZN – Calm Black Water (Released 2018) Stoner metal is rather self-evidently concerned with creating huge, monolithic soundscapes, and with nailing the attendant atmospherics. The less immediately obvious but just as salient upshot of this is that sometimes these bands take this commitment a bit too far by dedicating whole entire tracks – long ones, … Continue reading Obscure Metal Roundup VI
