In a rave review, Jonathan Horsley describes the sophomore full-length from Artificial Brain, Infrared Horizon, as an album which “envisions an extinct humanity, our place in the universe taken by robots and cyborgs, synthetics who believe they have naturally evolved from mankind, as though the species of Aristotle, Einstein, da Vinci was only ever primordial goo,” adding that vocalist Will Smith’s lyrics “read like Mr. Spock took a word cloud of Skynet’s internet search history and made beat poetry of it.” Combined with the decidedly sci-fi imagery the Long Island quintet employs for both album artwork and tour posters, it seemed apropos to reach out the the band for a list of their literary influences.

Check out this exclusive premiere of “Sacrificio Infanticida” from Keziah Lilith Medea (Chapter X), the brand new album from Chile’s mystikal death cult, Unaussprechlichen Kulten.

“Staving Off Truth” comes from Elder‘s fourth and largest album, Reflections of a Floating World. 

Minsk’s unutterable Ljosazabojstwa return with a new EP of unique, intense black/death metal. We were the first to hip you to this Belarusian menace last year, and now we’re here to bring you an exclusive stream of “Piekła” from Sychodžańnie, Ljosazabojstwa’s soon-to-be-released EP.

We asked doom-mentor Dorrian about how their contribution came about.  Here’s what he said.

Get familiar with Ripple Music, purveyors of doom, stoner, psychedelic and heavy rock and metal. 

Foscor explore the passage of time in a new music video for “Altars.”

The 1990s have come and gone. The greatness of Immortal, Emperor, Dissection, Unanimated, and others is now history. The cruel sands of time are slowly ebbing away at the monuments erected by the gods of old. But as it was so it will be. California’s Highland, formed by three Armenian-Americans, are standing for the ways of the past by thrusting it, via scorching melodic black metal, into the present.

The Future State of Wicked
Binge on some tasty riffs
dB rating: 8/10

Our resident birdbrains pecks on new releases from Loss, The Holy Circle, Danzig and Full of Hell.