Receiving the Evcharist: Abythic and Saugatuck Brewing Company’s Beam Me Up, Stouty

Receiving the Evcharist 2018

Hello friends!  Friday is once again upon us so let us celebrate and drink from the cup of heresy.  This week’s offerings:  Abythic‘s Eden of the Doomed and Saugatuck Brewing Company’s Beam Me Up, Stouty.

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Album Review: Worm — “Foreverglade”

Worm - Foreverglade

If you’re from the US (and even if you’re not), you probably tend to rag on the state of Florida for being…well, Florida, despite the fact that some of the finest music known to man has come from those swamps.  “Reeking, foul humidity,” “arcane travesty of nature,” “suffocatingly heavy” and “monstrosities of the murk” are all ways that Florida has probably been described in the cultural vernacular.  It also happens to describe Worm, the Florida-based death doom project that celebrates all things gloomy, swampy and yucky on their newest release Foreverglade.  Get your waders on, folks.

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Album Review: Oceans of Slumber — “Oceans of Slumber”

Please welcome guest reviewer Didrik Mešiček, who was brought to us by our very own Hera, as he pens his thoughts on this release.

From the American south comes a romantic darkness in the form of Oceans Of Slumber, a thoroughly unique band blending death/doom with progressive metal. The sextet will be releasing their fourth full-length album Oceans of Slumber this week and I’ve been enamored by it ever since receiving it.

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