AN NCS EP PREMIERE (AND A REVIEW): NO LIVING WITNESS — “AEONS OF DISINTEGRATION”

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Oct 022026
 

(Today is the day when the Washington State extreme metal band No Living Witness are releasing a new EP named Aeons of Disintegration, and to help spread the word our contributor Obsolete Mystic is hosting its full streaming premiere, preceded by an enthusiastic review.)

Today’s subject, No Living Witness, caught my attention from the first few seconds of their 2026 single “Dehydrator”. It had elements of Suffocation, Behemoth, Shade Empire, and a good bit of influence from the early work of all those PA-centered death metal bands we were all hyped for, like Rivers Of Nihil and Black Crown Initiate. It caught my attention immediately, and held it, and then I saw the criminally low numbers on their platforms and wanted to both review this EP and also give you readers a chance to hear it yourselves — and so I talked No Living Witness into exclusively streaming Aeons Of Disintegration here on the day of its release. Continue reading »

FOG WALL: “GLOOMWEAVER”

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Sep 042026
 

(Below is a review by a former NCS writer who now goes by the moniker Obsolete Mystic. His subject is the debut album from a Nevada-based duo who call themselves Fog Wall, an album they are independently releasing today.)

I love FromSoftware. In the realm of video games that studio have always been visionaries and avant-garde pushers of the artform. The cultural impact they’ve had ever since a little game called Demons Souls (OG Japanese importer right here) came out has permanently changed gaming and dark fantasy imagery and thematic elements in a huge way. FromSoftware games also happen to be metal as fuck and could easily inspire metal, especially in the death and black metal categories. As a result, there is in fact a whole grouping of bands that are FromSoftware worshippers.

Today’s focus is on one such band, Fog Wall, who named themselves after the signature walls of fog you traverse in FromSoftware games to begin boss battles. Like a lot of these bands, Fog Wall is a blackened death metal outfit, and they are offering up a very impressive debut in Gloomweaver. Continue reading »