{"id":106162,"date":"2020-12-29T11:00:41","date_gmt":"2020-12-29T17:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/toiletovhell.com\/?p=106162"},"modified":"2020-12-29T08:55:39","modified_gmt":"2020-12-29T14:55:39","slug":"cold-steel-dawn-onslaught-from-the-unknown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toiletovhell.com\/cold-steel-dawn-onslaught-from-the-unknown\/","title":{"rendered":"Cold Steel Dawn – Onslaught from the Unknown"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Back to the dungeons.<\/em><\/p>\n

Wrathful winter winds, ever-hungering disease, incompetence from on high, and the accelerating decrepitude of exploitative regimes\u2014the illusion of a comfortable, functional civilization falls apart as forces from within and without consume a slavering husk. Thankfully in these trying times, steel speaks with the same intensity and clarity with which it shines, cutting through mundane bigotries, gnawing anxiety and tedious demagoguery as easy as it would untested armour and unwitting flesh. Like with Catacomb Ventures<\/a>, today I\u2019m bringing you 10 overlooked classics primarily in the realms of melodic metal of olde but a few progressive rock numbers will be found amongst them. Sharpen your steel and shield your mind in cast-iron defiance\u2014here is a small legion of the finest from this year.<\/p>\n

Tyranonaut
\n<\/strong>Marble Eye<\/em>
\nIndependent<\/p>\n

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As strange of a comparison as it sounds, doom and progressive metal can often fail for a lot of the same reasons. They easily get drawn out without having much to justify their length, lacking distinctive riffing beyond synchronized plod or lazy hanging chords, busy being charmed by their own aesthetics as they drape nonexistent songwriting in excess fuzz and aimless noodling. When they transcend their stereotypes, utilizing the aesthetic as the means to rather than as the end, the result can be unparalleled. Rochester\u2019s Tyranonaut, a project by Greywitt brothers Alex and Nick, is definitely a doom metal band but they have a lot of the strengths of the stronger progressive metal bands as well (although the furthest they go into that category is being fans of ’70s bands).<\/p>\n

First and foremost rather than vague airy plod-thuds, they have a properly active riffy assault, unafraid of throwing in a few choice licks and at times bordering on the territory of bands like Dream Death<\/strong> and Celtic Frost<\/strong> in their confidence with dense, chordal riffs. Augmenting this is their ear for ambitious multi-sectioned songwriting, whether it\u2019s how they contrast a wider variety of riffing intensities with lumbering longer chords with sharper, crunchier phrasings or their ear for breaking away from zombie-like marching to lengthy breaks into faster riffing with an admirable confidence. They might be big, lumbering, and fairly slow but they never stop that from letting them be as ruthless as any other metal bands.<\/p>\n