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It’s the same thing than last week, but now we changed the name!
Oïkoumen – Reign of Idiocy Hey, you! Do you miss old Epica? I don’t, personally, but maybe Oïkoumen is exactly what you’re looking for to revive that classic Symphonic Metal vibe—provided you’re also willing to engage with more interesting and aggressive guitar work than the genre typically offers. This track essentially feels like a Melodic Death Metal song elegantly draped with those soaring, beautiful female vocals, rather than relying on the standard growled performance of, as you might say, “some dude destroying his throat for beer money.” It’s a rather safe and familiar formula, but it is executed with commendable skill and clarity.
Amerakin Overdose – Time Bomb: We return now to what might be the most unabashedly Nu-Metal band we’ve ever reviewed, and yes, this is pure, unfiltered 2000s nostalgia at this point. The production value is a fascinating paradox—so deliberately rough and raw in its aesthetic that it circles back around to feeling highly polished and intentional. It’s undeniably accessible, and honestly, this is precisely the kind of radio-ready Modern Metal that could still find a home on an average rock station. So yes, it’s definitively catchy in that specific, angsty way.
Odjur – Blood and Bones: Yes, this band is making its absolute best impression of Amon Amarth. It trades some of that band’s anthemic melody for a more direct, axe-swinging heaviness, but the gruff, narrative Viking Metal vocals are exactly what you’d expect from the style. Despite its rough-around-the-edges charm—that guitar solo is wonderfully primal!—it doesn’t feel like a deeply underground or obscure track. So, grab your imaginary shield and enjoy the straightforward sword-fighting anthems.
Blastphemian – Midwinter: Now, this is some freaking savage Black Metal that sounds as dense and impenetrable as a frozen fjord at midnight (and I mean that in the best possible way). It’s blisteringly fast and unrelentingly heavy as per the genre’s demands, but the particular texture of the production and the chosen guitar tones inject an absolutely grotesque, almost suffocating dimension to the sound. Even the brief, merciless respites the track offers do little to alleviate the overall sense of a relentless, freezing storm.
Desu Taem – To Whom Are You Worthy? & She’s the Best One Anyway: I genuinely don’t know how these guys produce and release so much material, but they keep submitting their eclectic work every single week. The first track is straightforward Hard Rock in structure, but its central melody and tuning are totally borrowed from a more complex Progressive Rock songbook, which is a refreshing twist. The second track is so unabashedly cheesy, uplifting, and sweet that I just wanted to throw it in here to radically shift the mood away from our usual darker musical fare. So, if you’re in desperate need of some optimistic, feel-good stuff, here you have it.
Forsaken Profits – Chemical Burn: I’ll admit, I really thought that band name was spam when it landed in our inbox. However, Forsaken Profits has sent us something genuinely dirty, raw, and truly kvlt. We’re featuring the live version here specifically because it’s even more hysterical and unhinged, but the core of it is pure, unadulterated extreme Metal of the variety that makes you want to pick a fight with four drunkards in a dimly lit bar, preferably all at once and armed with nothing but a broken bottle. Enough said
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