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Picture Credit: Venustra   Venustra - May, I Release Date: February 06, 2021 Length: 08:52 (12:01) Genre: Gothic Metal / Alternative Metal Origin: Austin , TX , USA "May, I" is a two-track (Bandcamp), respectively three-track (Spotify) single by Austin's Venustra. The title track was inspired by the film " May ", a psycho thriller by Lucky McKee , starring Angela Bettis . Further tracks are "Step Right up! (Adoration Destroyed Remixx)" and the bonus track "Los Ageless" (only on Spotify). Venustra was founded by Texan artist Synderalla Nervosa . The band is constantly releasing brachial music full of horror and darkness. Even if you have not watched the film, the song is inspired by, you can easily feel the thrill of protagonist May Kennedy 's dark desires. "May, I" is a brutal Alternative Metal piece, defined by sonic darkness, brachial riffs, and violent rhythms. The soundscapes spread darkness, horror, and gore, as Venustra c...

Picture Credit: Crimson Clean Sweep   Crimson Clean Sweep - Hexes Release Date: May 07, 2021 Length: 03:38 Genre: Metalcore / Alternative Metal Origin: Viola , Illinois , USA Viola-based quintet Crimson Clean Sweep are one of those bands that do not merge or combine genres. Instead, they just run through the boundaries between styles with the power of an army of jackhammers. If you are interested in a modern approach to raw and brachial music, you are ready the right post. In the press kit, Crimson Clean Sweep say they "sound like The Hex Girls if The Hex Girls were boys, tuned really low, and screamed". Well, that is one way to describe it. Crimson Clean Sweep's "Hexes" is a savage mix, combining the raw force of Nu Metal with merciless Metalcore blows, a dark Alternative Metal atmosphere, and the morbid aftertaste of Gothic Metal. So, Alternative Gothic Nu Metalcore? Crimson Clean Sweep bring Nu Metal to a new level. Fans of raging moshpits and sheer loudness...

Picture Credit: Silenced Minstrel Silenced Minstrel - Volume 5 Release Date: October 31, 2020 Label: selfrelease Format: Digital Length: 50:07 Genre: Black Metal Origin: Kuala Lumpur , Malaysia Silenced Minstrel is the one-person army consisting of Kuala Lumpur's Saiful Nizam Shukor . The artist from Malaysia founded the band in 2016 and has since then released album after album. As you might have assumed, this is the fifth album by Silenced Minstrel on which the solo artist is digging through the burning depths of hell. On the surface this is pure and raw Black Metal. Riffs and rhythms rage forward like blizzards. Yet, the guitar sound is not the typical Immortal-like sound of bone-chilling cold, but resembles the blood-thirsty Bathory atmosphere instead. From time to time you can hear complex sound structures climbing up the raw Black Metal scaffoldings like on a circular staircase. Further influences are atmospheric pieces of Gothic Metal and Blackened Death Metal machine gun at...

Picture Credit: Shores of Null Artwork: Sabrina Carmanico Shores of Null - Beyond the Shores (on Death and Dying) Release Date: November 27, 2020 Label: Spikerot Records Format: Vinyl / CD / Digital Length: 38:25 Genre: Doom Metal / Gothic Metal Origin: Rome , Italy For their third longplayer, Italian Gothic Doom band Shores of Null have decided to create an opus instead. Not only is it a concept album on the five stages of grief according to the works of psychiatrist Elisabeth Kübler-Ross  (side note: remember, Australian Post Hardcore band Without Belief did that, too ?) Furthermore, Shores of Null were joined by eight special guests. Those are Valentina Gabbianelli  - violin, Fabio Gabbianelli  - double bass, Paolo Campitelli  - piano, Marco Mastrobuono  - bass, Martina Lesley McLean  - screams, Elisabetta Marchetti  - clean vocals, Thomas A. G. Jensen  - growls and spoken words, and Mikko Kotamäki  - growls, screams and clean vocals. And...