Saif Shaikh, Author at Metal Wani

Album Reviews

SIGNS OF THE SWARM – “To Rid Myself of Truth” (Review)

Deathcore has become my pet genre. Having watched the genre evolve through many phases with varying influences has made the pursuit of this style almost academic. The downside of taking…

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2 min

E.P. Reviews

AVERSIONS CROWN – “A Voice From the Outer Dark” [EP] (Review)

After five years of radio silence, the Brisbane technical deathcore quartet finally returns, albeit with an EP, A Voice From the Outer Dark. If these three new songs are anything…

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6 min

Album Reviews

SLAUGHTER TO PREVAIL – “Grizzly” (Review)

For those who have made our nests in a particular family of subgenres, some pros and cons come with the territory. The pros are that we keep our fingers on…

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4 min

Album Reviews

BORN OF OSIRIS – “Through Shadown” (Review)

Watching the progress of some bands sure do make you feel old, a grizzled veteran of the genre. Born of Osiris is one of those bands. I got into them…

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4 min

Album Reviews

MALEVOLENCE – “Where Only The Truth Is Spoken” (Review)

Metalcore gets a bad rap. Modern metalcore doubly so. Accusations of over-produced gimmicky Instagram-flavor-of-the-week artists chasing the latest trend on TikTok quickly spread into the genre, for every one great…

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4 min

Album Reviews

CRYPTOPSY – “An Insatiable Violence” (Review)

Fans of niche metal genres are fickle beasts. They can be champions of your art, touting it to anyone who would hear, screaming praise from the mountaintop, until you release…

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4 min

Album Reviews

FALLUJAH – “Xenotaph” (Review)

As a reviewer, I feel a nostalgic sense of accomplishment and contentment when I realize that I have been doing this for long enough to review multiple records of a…

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5 min

Album Reviews

VILDHJARTA – “Dar Skogen Sjunger Under Evighetens Granar” (Review)

The Swedes in Vildhjarta (Wildheart) are back four years after their last record, to serenade us with a new sprawling journey with Dar Skogen Sjunger Under Evighetens Granar (Where the…

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4 min

Album Reviews

RETROMORPHOSIS – “Psalmus Mortis” (Review)

There are only a handful of times that a band comes along and revolutionizes a genre, or standardizes it such that scores of future bands continue to imitate their techniques…

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4 min

Album Reviews

OBSCURA – “A Sonication” (Review)

Technical death metal is a fickle beast. It attracts the most creative, the most talented, and the most achieved musicians from various parts of the globe, and mashes them together…

Saif Shaikh

SIGNS OF THE SWARM – “To Rid Myself of Truth” (Review)

AVERSIONS CROWN – “A Voice From the Outer Dark” [EP] (Review)

SLAUGHTER TO PREVAIL – “Grizzly” (Review)

BORN OF OSIRIS – “Through Shadown” (Review)

MALEVOLENCE – “Where Only The Truth Is Spoken” (Review)

CRYPTOPSY – “An Insatiable Violence” (Review)

FALLUJAH – “Xenotaph” (Review)

VILDHJARTA – “Dar Skogen Sjunger Under Evighetens Granar” (Review)

RETROMORPHOSIS – “Psalmus Mortis” (Review)

OBSCURA – “A Sonication” (Review)

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