Articles by Brayden Turenne

Archgoat

The Luciferian Crown

PUBLISHED Sep 11, 2018

When it comes to bestial black metal, few have as much cred as Finland's Archgoat. Veterans in the black metal scene, the band have a sound...

Innumerable Forms

Punishment in Flesh

PUBLISHED Aug 16, 2018

It makes sense that members from such first class acts as Power Trip, Genocide Pact, Mammoth Grinder and Magic Circle would make quality mu...

Drawn and Quartered

The One Who Lurks

PUBLISHED Jul 25, 2018

There is an aesthetic to ugliness that, done right, can arrest the beholder more than any beauty. But there is a line between grotesque and...

Extremity

Coffin Birth

PUBLISHED Jul 18, 2018

If you feel hungry for a slice of meat-and-potatoes chunky death metal, with some devilish riffs and bone-crushing force, Extremity might j...

Imperial Triumphant Expose the Rotten Core of the Big Apple on 'Vile Luxury'

PUBLISHED Jul 13, 2018

For Imperial Triumphant, their New York City hometown is the black heart at the centre of their craft, one that reflects the metropolitan e...

Imperial Triumphant

Vile Luxury

PUBLISHED Jul 10, 2018

To craft a piece of coherent music is a feat of skill unto itself, and it is a mark of artistry when that music is actually good, let alone...

Craft

White Noise and Black Metal

PUBLISHED Jun 21, 2018

After a seven-year silence, Sweden's Craft break the spell with an album that attempts to embody the magnitude and confidence of a grand re...

Tomb Mold

Manor of Infinite Forms

PUBLISHED Jun 6, 2018

With the grace and subtlety of a starved, rampaging horde of mutant degenerates, Toronto perpetrators of audio torment Tomb Mold maintain t...