Tag Archives: Transcending Obscurity

Artist: Replicant Album Title: Infinite Mortality Label: Transcending Obscurity Date of Release: 12 April 2024 2024 definitely feels like it’s the year that my tastes get even heavier and more extreme. I tend to think of myself as a progressive metal fan first and foremost, but so far, there have only been precious few releases  Continue Reading »

Artist: Vorga Album Title: Beyond The Palest Star Label: Transcending Obscurity Date of Release: 29 March 2024 A couple of years ago, out of nowhere, I was left thoroughly impressed with an album called ‘Striving Towards Oblivion’. It happened to be the debut full-length from a German trio by the name of Vorga, and it  Continue Reading »

Artist: Eternal Storm Album Title: A Giant Bound To Fall Label: Transcending Obscurity Records Date of Release: 16 February 2024 During one of my casual, late evening trawls through the promos available to me, I hovered the cursor over the artwork for ‘A Giant Bound To Fail’, the sophomore album from Spanish melodic death metal  Continue Reading »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »