Articles by Brayden Turenne

Grave Upheaval

Untitled

PUBLISHED Apr 12, 2018

Metal has always dealt in horror to some degree, but it's rare to find a band that live up to the tag and can instill true dread in the lis...

Our Place of Worship Is Silence

With Inexorable Suffering

PUBLISHED Apr 10, 2018

There will be an immediate attraction to Our Place of Worship Is Silence for their unflinching, chunk-like heaviness, best reflected in the...

Lychgate

The Contagion in Nine Steps

PUBLISHED Mar 29, 2018

If you can imagine being dosed on bad hallucinogens while wandering through a haunted cathedral with no chance of escape, Lychgate's The Co...

Of Feather And Bone Channel Aztec Rage on 'Bestial Hymns of Perversion'

PUBLISHED Mar 27, 2018

On their latest full-length, Bestial Hymns of Perversion, Of Feather and Bone present a fittingly savage slice of raging death that manages...

The Sword

Used Future

PUBLISHED Mar 21, 2018

Charting the evolution of their sound, the Sword could be seen as undergoing an evolution akin to that of Mastodon, but less successfully....

Of Feather and Bone

Bestial Hymns of Perversion

PUBLISHED Mar 20, 2018

Having been a well-kept secret in the metal underground for years, Of Feather and Bone will doubtless make their presence known in horrid f...

Rites of Thy Degringolade

The Blade Philosophical

PUBLISHED Mar 14, 2018

Edmonton, AB seems to be a veritable hotbed of hostile energy, as reflected by the swath of extreme metal groups to emerge from those frigi...

Watain / Destroyer 666 / Revenge

Rickshaw Theatre, Vancouver BC, March 12

PUBLISHED Mar 13, 2018

The Vancouver stop on Watain's North American campaign of new album, Wolf Trident Eclipse, was a fittingly hellish display. Taking place at...