There’s nothing wrong with being firmly rooted in one genre. If death metal, for example, floats your boat and you have no interest in playing outside of those boundaries, then you’d be in fine company. That being said, some of the best stuff out there is made by artists that aren’t worried if their album…
If you are looking for inspiration for an extreme album, something that will provide you with a depth of monsters, madness, and malice beyond the imaginings of mortal man, H.P. Lovecraft’s work has to spring to mind. Plenty of bands have drawn inspiration from the writings of the imaginative New Englander and his Cthulhu mythos. Lovecraft’s…
Atmospheric black metal bands tend to be a dime a dozen. For every genuinely exciting release, there are five or six more littering release days that sound frustratingly similar. I’ve heard a couple this year already that just didn’t excite me in the least or do enough to differentiate themselves from other bands out there…