Here are our favorite releases of February 2024:
Jared:
I wasn’t sold on Spectral Voice’s past works, but this record won me over- it’s haunting, suffocating, and crushingly heavy. It borders on funeral doom atmosphere but with a persistent sense of menace.
Nathan:
Darkspace continues to feel entrancing and all-enveloping. This music captures me in a way that feels more than music, like a book that pulls you into its world and leaves a part of you missing when you finish. The weakness here is that this only really works for me with Darkspace -II when taken as a part of a larger saga and going through a Darkspace discography run. By itself, Darkspace -II remains a solid album and a good example of how to do atmoblack right.
And Stellar Remains is a good example of how to do Timeghoul right. It’s proggy death metal, it’s fun, it’s concise, it’s engaging. I already gushed about this album enough when it came out. I’ve kept listening to and enjoying Steller Remains. Can’t wait to see what this band does next.
Ulver, Fellowship, Defeated Sanity, Nekus, Nepenthe
