Tag Archives: Transcending Obscurity
Frozen Dawn – The Decline Of The Enlightened Gods – Album Review

Artist: Frozen Dawn Album Title: The Decline Of The Enlightened Gods Label: Transcending Obscurity Date of Release: 10 February 2023 There’s something in the water in 2023 where black metal is concerned. It’s mid-February and already I have waxed lyrical about the new …And Oceans record, ‘As In Gardens, So In Tombs’, as well as Continue Reading »
Abaddon Incarnate – The Wretched Sermon – Album Review

Artist: Abaddon Incarnate Album Title: The Wretched Sermon Label: Transcending Obscurity Records Date of Release: 5 August 2022 It has been a busy time of late, so I am playing serious catch-up with some reviews that I have been meaning to write. This is one such album, the new long player from Irish grindcore/death metal Continue Reading »
Paganizer – Behind The Macabre – Album Review

Artist: Paganizer Album Title: Behind The Macabre Label: Transcending Obscurity Records Date of Release: 24 June 2022 Welcome one and all to another instalment of ‘Matt drops the ball’, or as I prefer to call it, my review of Swedish death metal stalwarts Paganizer’s twelfth full length release, ‘Behind The Macabre’. It feels like the Continue Reading »
Godless Truth – Godless Truth – Album Review

Artist: Godless Truth Album Title: Godless Truth Label: Transcending Obscurity Records Date of Release: 4 March 2022 I’ll be the first to admit that I am becoming a little addicted to the music that Transcending Obscurity Records have been serving up of late. Admittedly, not all of it is perfect, but the quality is generally Continue Reading »
The Last Of Lucy – Moksha – Album Review

Artist: The Last Of Lucy Album Title: Moksha Label: Transcending Obscurity Records Date of Release: 18 February 2022 By all accounts, it doesn’t seem to matter one way or the other whether you’ve been a long-term fan of The Last Of Lucy when it comes to this review. I’m not familiar with them, having been Continue Reading »
Vorga – Striving Toward Oblivion – Album Review

Artist: Vorga Album Title: Striving Toward Oblivion Label: Transcending Obscurity Records Date of Release: 4 February 2022 What on Earth is going on with Transcending Obscurity Records at the moment? They are fast becoming a firm favourite with me of late thanks to some great releases at the heavier, more extreme end of the music Continue Reading »
Abyssus – Death Revival – Album Review

Artist: Abyssus Album Title: Death Revival Label: Transcending Obscurity Date of Release: 21 January 2022 Growing up, I wasn’t a big fan of straight-up death metal as a genre. As I discovered more extreme forms of music, I quickly developed a love of the Gothenburg melodic death metal sound, but at the time, much of Continue Reading »
Necrophagous – In Chaos Ascend – Album Review

Artist: Necrophagous Album Title: In Chaos Ascend Label: Transcending Obscurity Date of Release: 7 January 2021 It’s nice to have the opportunity to review a debut album so early in 2022, but that’s what ‘In Chaos Ascend’ provides, as it is the very first offering from the new death metal entity known as Necrophagous. Having Continue Reading »
Eye Of Purgatory – The Lighthouse – Album Review

Artist: Eye Of Purgatory Album Title: The Lighthouse Label: Transcending Obscurity Records Date of Release: 18 June 2021 I’ve referred to some artists in the past as workaholics or obsessives that deliver more music than you might think possible in the given timeframe. However, none of these even come close to the Swedish guitarist, vocalist, Continue Reading »
Revulsion – Revulsion – Album Review
Artist: Revulsion Album Title: Revulsion Label: Transcending Obscurity Date of Release: 5 February 2021 2021 would seem to be the year when long-awaited debut albums are released. After the success of Oceana and their debut that was 27 years in the making, today is the turn for the self-titled debut from Finland’s Revulsion, a band Continue Reading »