Rating: 4/5
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“True Traitor, True Whore” serves as a welcome comeback for America’s best one-man black metal project.

Rating: 4.5/5
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This is no party album, people—these are mediations in the key of despair, and I would not have it any other way. While this record feels like a vast improvement for Tombs, it’s not the sound of a band that has run out of ideas; in fact, it’s the sound of a band developing into its own entity.

Rating: 4/5
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“Stained Glass Revelations” may not be for the fans of straightforward Immortal-style black metal, but is certainly for people who like their heavy music stranger.

Rating: 3.5/5
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If you are looking for something purely new and innovative then you may want to keep digging, but if you want some solid death-obsessed black metal, then “Lawless Darkness” is for you.

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Rating: 4.5/5
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Unearthly Trance offer no bellbottom anthems or goofy la la land shit…that has its place but that place isn’t here. These occult anthems feel like they come from some back alley scum cult worshipping Aleister Crowley, junked out on AC current, and looking to subvert morality at every turn.