Witching Chronicles: Exploring THRÆDS’ Impermanence
There’s something about this record that feels like it’s falling apart as it’s being built – like scaffolding collapsing in slow motion while someone’s still welding new beams onto it. That’s not a criticism. It’s the point. THRÆDS aren’t new, but Impermanence feels like a debut in the truest, ugliest, most ambitious sense – like […]
Witching Chronicles: Exploring The Goya’s In the Dawn of November
This record doesn’t ask if you’re ready. It doesn’t care. In the Dawn of November kicks the door open slow, with the weight of years behind it—the kind of record that feels like a reckoning, not a release. Goya aren’t here to impress you. They never have been. They came crawling out of the desert […]
Witching Chronicles: Exploring The Pelegrin’s Al-Mahruqa
It took me a couple plays to even understand if this was a “band” in the usual sense. Because this thing doesn’t behave like a record put together in a jam space and tracked over a weekend. It’s not locked in like that. It moves more like a memory. Or like it was uncovered, not […]
Witching Chronicles: Exploring The MANDY MANALA’s Mandy Manala
This one feels like it came from below the floorboards. Mandy Manala’s debut is soaked in something old, heavy, and weirdly alive – like someone lit a candle in an abandoned rehearsal space and this is what came crawling out. They’re from Vaasa, Finland, but they don’t lean on that as a gimmick. No frostbitten […]
Witching Chronicles: Exploring The DWELLERS’ Corrupt Translation Machine
Not a comeback. Not a concept piece. Not reinventing the wheel either. DWELLERS just turned in a record after eleven years that sounds like they’ve been watching the world rust and finally decided to plug the amps back in. Corrupt Translation Machine isn’t flashy. It’s not trying to be your favorite record. But it’s built […]
Witching Chronicles: Exploring The Grave Speaker’s Rays of the Emerald Sun
The album doesn’t come at you. It waits. Doesn’t feel like it wants your attention, more like it’s giving you a look to see if you’ll stick around. Not distant, not cold – just uninterested in putting on a show. There’s a confidence in that. Or maybe indifference. Could be the same thing. This is […]
Witching Chronicles: Exploring The KAL-EL’s Astral Voyager Vol. 1
Rumbling out of Stavanger’s frostbitten void like a mythic refraction of Black Sabbath caught in the gravitational pull of a dying star, KAL-EL return with Astral Voyager Vol. 1, the latest slab of zero-gravity riffcraft from Norway’s reigning overlords of cosmic doom. A transmission. A warning. The first installment of a two-part sonic exodus, Vol. […]
Witching Chronicles: Exploring The THAMMUZ’ III
You ever wake up with your teeth humming from feedback? That’s where this album lives. III doesn’t give you songs, it gives you weight. Not the sort of weight that bands in leather jackets try to conjure in overpriced studios. I’m talking about the tectonic, low-slung, slow-crawling kind—born from the pit, not the playlist. THAMMUZ […]
Witching Chronicles: Exploring The Messa’s The Spin
Messa’s The Spin feels like the work of a band that’s had a lot of time to think about what they want to say next – and it’s clear that they’ve been listening, experimenting, and really honing in on their own voice. It’s one of those records that you immediately feel a connection to, but […]
Witching Chronicles: Exploring The Master Charger’s Posthumous Resurrection
Straight outta the rust-bloated Midlands where Sabbath riffs still hang in the smog, Master Charger come stomping in with Posthumous Resurrection, and it don’t ask for permission. It just lands. Like a war drum echoing from a burnt-out biker chapel. They’ve been at it since ‘06—long enough to have ditched the polish and learned how […]