VOLT SORCERY's first demo-tape "To Rive the Scalp Asunder" ominously interweaves the unrelenting pulse of cavernous Black Death Metal and the gloomy scapes of keyboard-laden intensity. It's the two core-members of German THORYBOS that dwell here, over the course of three songs, simultaneously in pensive, somehow distant and outworldly meditation as much as in the immediate nightmarish grip of ill-spirited ritual action.
The Indonesian act Kekal leaves no genre unturned, colliding black metal with industrial music with melodic post-rock on this stunning LP. Bandcamp New & Notable Mar 25, 2023