MetalMatters: The Best Metal Albums of June 2024
In June’s best metal, Crypt Sermon offer hooks in doom form, Insect Ark stay on the experimental path, and Ulcerate offer despair with technical death metal.
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Insect Ark’s Dark Ambient Turn – Future Fossils EP Review
Insect Ark is Dana Schechter’s solo project again and the focus is no longer on heavy music but on dark ambient atmospherics for the new EP, Future Fossils.
Insect Ark Perform a Deep Atmospheric Dive with ‘Future Fossils’ EP (premiere)
Dana Schechter reverts Insect Ark to their solo form, leaving behind the psychedelic rock structures for a dark ambient detour.
MetalMatters: February 2020 – Running on All Cylinders
February in heavy music features long-awaited returns from Psychotic Waltz, Envy, and Today Is the Day, along with a healthy dose of black metal and experimental music.
Blood and Thunder: Sometimes Metal Smiles Instead of Frowns (and That’s Okay)
The new album by New Jersey glam metal outfit Trixter is a reminder that, for all of metal's self-seriousness and bleakness, it can be a tremendously fun genre when it remembers to smile.