Invisible Oranges

Invisible Oranges is a blog that focuses on heavy metal music. The phrase "invisible oranges" refers to the gripping motion you experience when the powerful energy of metal music takes over you. Started by Cosmo Lee in 2006, IO became part of the BrooklynVegan network in 2013.

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Hindsight is 10/10: Urzeit’s "Anmoshka"

1 week ago | invisibleoranges.com | Luke Jackson

In Hindsight is 10/10, we revisit albums that have not received the acclaim they deserve. How enigmatic do you like your black metal artists? Do you need to know the people under the paint job, to poke at their histories and creative process? Or do you want their music delivered anonymously: an unmarked tape in a plastic bag, with a couple of foraged feathers thrown in for maximum found footage mise-en-scène? To the uninitiated, in 2016, all that Urzeit gave you was 7 letters.
Pissgrave Highlight the "Malignant Worthlessness" Of Life Through Purposeful Abhorrence (Review)

2 months ago | invisibleoranges.com | Luke Jackson

There’s a sweet spot on the road to becoming a heavy music bore when every fifth or tenth new discovery is shocking. It’s all the truer if you’re making the journey from a starting point of relatively palatable or accommodating sounds, skipping merrily towards the blissful and true nirvana of comparing notes on the worst recordings ever made, because the clipping is rad and you want to reverse engineer it for a thing you’re doing.
Christian Mistress's Burning Heavy Metal Rises from a "Lake of Memory" (Video Premiere + Interview)

Feb 4, 2025 | invisibleoranges.com | Tom Campagna

With their first album in 10 years due out soon, we talked to vocalist Christine Davis about the band's return and their plans for 2025.
Hindsight is 10/10: Ustalost's "The Spoor of Vipers"

Jan 8, 2025 | invisibleoranges.com | Colin Dempsey

In Hindsight is 10/10, we revisit albums that have not received the acclaim they deserve. The US black metal band Ustalost have two albums under their belt but have not provided any information about themselves aside from two paragraphs on the Bandcamp page for Before the Glinting Spell Unvests. The project’s leader hasn’t given an interview concerning the project. Aside from a few reviews, Ustalost have a small digital footprint, and none of it is of their own creation.
Colin Dempsey's Top Albums of 2024

Dec 19, 2024 | invisibleoranges.com | Colin Dempsey

It’s just as baffling that Manual Manic Procedures is this good as it is that 200 Stab Wounds, who must not have seen their apartments since 2021 since they were seemingly always performing, had time to record it. And it’s not just that this is simply a commendable death metal record. Its predecessor, Slave to the Scalpel, was good but not great, if only because it felt primed for a live audience but not fleshed out.
Luke Jackson's Top Albums of 2024

Dec 12, 2024 | invisibleoranges.com | Luke Jackson

Death metal is *big inhale* all around us, it courses through the underground like the river of slime in Ghostbusters, adhering to every crack and crevice. As a result, there’s a lot of it, and we find ourselves welcoming and ejecting albums from our personal canon for increasingly specific and bizarre reasons. So it was that in 2024, Living Gate’s Suffer As One found its way into regular rotation on the grounds of having a kick drum that sounds really good in headphones.
Ter Ziele Execute "The Separation of Body and Soul" Through Pressurized Doom Metal (Early Track Stream)

Dec 5, 2024 | invisibleoranges.com | Colin Dempsey

The COVID-induced lockdowns battered our psyches as the isolation and uncertainty of the situation felt endless. During that period, the doom metal group Ter Ziele formed in Friesland, Switzerland and began creating music with the overpowering malaise associated with the lockdowns. Although years removed from that context, their forthcoming debut album Embodiment of Death still carries that weight.
November 2024 In Black Metal: A Roundup

Dec 2, 2024 | invisibleoranges.com | Colin Dempsey

In lieu of a typical monthly release roundup, partially because list season is already upon us and tying our hands tightly behind our backs, and because Nothing But Black Metal November is concluding, Invisible Oranges is focusing on black metal that came out this past month. Here are four albums you should have on your radar and spin before the holiday season commences. ...
Melted Bodies Navigate "The Inevitable Fork" On Their Latest Album (Interview)

Nov 21, 2024 | invisibleoranges.com | Colin Dempsey

Throw on a Melted Bodies album and each track will prick the ears of totally different people for totally different reasons. The new wave-infused “Think Safe” is for folks who wore David Byrne-like big suits for Halloween, “Wrath of the Flies” is for grindcore enthusiasts, and then there’s “Relax, You Are Lazy”, which asserts the oft-repeated comparison to System of a Down. This resemblance is apt and complimentary but not fully illustrative of Melted Bodies.
Spider God "Possess the Devil" - and Take Possession of the Narrative (Interview)

Nov 13, 2024 | invisibleoranges.com | Luke Jackson

Spider God’s celebrated beginnings as a furious and raw take on English black metal were always the least interesting thing about them. With the passage of time and the swelling of their discography, the band has become ever more comfortable with letting us see who they really are, sharing a technicolor array of influences from across the musical spectrum, and using black metal as a prism through which to let them shine.