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Album Review: Split – Illimitable Dolor/Promethean Misery

February 22, 2019 Andrew Cook/The Great Mackintosh

A quick review should be in order, one would think, with this little package from two mighty Australian acts, Illimitable Dolor, and Promethean Misery, but

Album Review: Evolutionary Impasse – Plague Throat

February 22, 2019 Andrew Cook/The Great Mackintosh

So here we are, finally, with another effort from my 2017 ‘Album Of The Year’ winners, India’s very own son’s, Plague Throat. I’m gonna quote

Album Review: Carrier Of Weight – Eremit

February 20, 2019 Andrew Cook/The Great Mackintosh

Ever since I ventured forth into the world of doom metal, there was one thing that immediately stood out to me above all else: heaviness.

Album Review: Flesh For Funerals Eternal – Feral

February 6, 2019 Andrew Cook/The Great Mackintosh

A thing that needs to be said again, and that is of the band naming variety. Whereas I have previously stated that Feral’s fellow label

The Metal Wanderlust’s Top Albums Of 2018 – Part III

January 1, 2019 Andrew Cook/The Great Mackintosh

Let’s get one thing straight right away. I HATE top fucking anythings. I will be posting a top fifty early next year, and I fucking

Album Review: Devoted To Lunacy – Bludgeon

December 13, 2018 Andrew Cook/The Great Mackintosh

Here’s that name again, Tito Vespasiani, you know, that all around champion from Everlasting Spew Records? We have a saying over at The Metal Wanderlust,

Album Review: Slavery Or Steel – Dungeon Wolf

December 9, 2018 Andrew Cook/The Great Mackintosh

Florida’s Dungeon Wolf are a pretty cool band. Yes I know you usually aren’t supposed to give the game away right at the start of

Album Review: Aenigmata – Darkest Horizon

December 7, 2018 Andrew Cook/The Great Mackintosh

What foul force cometh my way? Darkest Horizon? You could have asked me out on a date first! Maybe some flowers? Nay, you just swept

Album Review: Lust of the Goat – Blasphemer

November 29, 2018 Andrew Cook/The Great Mackintosh

Straight of the proverbial bat, I’m just gonna say this is fucking excellence of the highest order. Yes, I’m a huge fan of many a

Album Review: Shadows Of Exile – Vanquishor

November 20, 2018 Andrew Cook/The Great Mackintosh

Ever since I first met ThatAstronautGuy, he kept dribbling on about being in a band. Not unusual for him, as I have previously stated his

Album Review: As The Kingdom Drowns – Psycroptic

November 8, 2018 Andrew Cook/The Great Mackintosh

Psycroptic are one of Australia’s premiere technical death metal bands, if not one of the best technical death metal bands in general. The tight drumming