Blackened Symphonic Death Metal is quite a mouthful – would you not agree?  Torn from Existence hail from Colorado and have been around a few years and Hearken the Darkened Skies is their debut album. Hopefully, the band is getting this debut out to distros, labels etc..so this Self-Released album can be picked up by […]

Flotsam and Jetsam https://www.flotstildeath.com/ I’ve waxed nostalgic about the 80s many times. I enjoy being able to watch or listen to something from the decade and say “I remember when that happened” like that time when Flotsam and Jetsam‘s original bassist Jason Newstead joined Metallica. I remember when that happened… Anyway, if you know that […]

Glacial Tomb plays the kind of death metal I enjoy. Let’s be honest, though: I like most of it. With their debut arriving 6 years ago, a follow-up now could be considered late to the death metal revival party. However, with 2 of the band members in Khemmis, the delay is completely understandable. It’s like […]

I’m a big WWI buff. I’ve even been to Ypres trenches, Sanctuary Wood and laid a wreath at the Menin gate in Belgium.  And in my review of the most recent God Dethroned album, The Judas Paradox, I lamented the fact that God Dethroned was no longer focused on WWI, a subject I of course […]

Returning with album #8, Deceased enters the realm of creating a concept album with Children of the Morgue.  Their last album, from six years ago, Ghostly White was a fantastic display of their death-thrashing madness, equipped with a plethora of good old ass-kicking heavy metal moments.  With roughly around the same running time Children of […]

“Before the tragedy, no one ever thought this band was going to exist without Trevor.” When Trevor Strnad passed away the world of Metal was shaken to the core. That above quote from TBDM co-founder Brian Eschbach is taken from the press release and it’s a heartbreaking statement. Trevor had such a huge presence, both […]

Black Metal is a finicky genre. It goes through shifts and changes that keep it moving forward and there’s enough bands both established and brand new that it’s creative integrity and spiritual voice of the 90s continues to infect the new blood. El Jefe forwarded the new Hammerfilosofi EP SOLUS (Igne Natura Renovator Integra) to […]

As the prettiest feminist on the Teeth of the Divine staff, it’s no doubt my duty to review the debut EP of Emasculator. Featuring current and former members of Abnormality, Cartilage, Castrator, Poon Tickler, Oak, and Unfathomable Ruination, it’s sure to be not only anticipated by fans of the previously mentioned bands but enjoyed as […]

  California’s Laceration released a really nice debut album in 2021, Demise.  While there were some elements of thrash metal interwoven into their sounds, mainly with some of the solos, still not enough to be a hybrid death/thrash band.  The band is death metal. Following up on that debut album with a slightly shorter sophomore […]

I’m not familiar with Germany’s Servant, having not heard the band’s prior two albums. Still, I’m always down for some ‘melodic-yet-furious black metal’ (per the promotional email). Especially as I dig a lot of the music that AOP Records puts out, especially the likes of Firtan, Waldgeflüster, Groza, Finsterforst, and Harakiri for the Sky. So I […]

When was the last time an album hit you with such emotion that you felt like it was casually going to rip your heart out and leave you with a gaping hole where your emotions used to live? I have a list of bands that have created music like that, and those are the ones […]

Ohio’s Ironflame is a writing machine.  Since 2016 they have released four full-length albums and now they have dropped their fifth one Kingdom Torn Asunder on us. I have enjoyed all their prior albums a lot, although I did feel their 2022 album Where Madness Dwells, slightly suffered in the production department and the hooks […]

We don’t do interviews very much any more here. I mean how many times do you need to hear some megastar like Karl Sanders or Corpsegrinder say “yeah this album is better than the last one” or “this album was a very ‘personal’ one’?

That said , if I ever get the chance to promote one of the ‘small guys’ or even better a ‘local’ small guy, whose music I really enjoy, I often try and do it, especially if it means meeting the said band in person.

One such example of both is Vile Revelation, hailing from Columbia , Missouri.

Though I reviewed the debut, Voidgazer, from this discordant death metal Texas duo back in 2021, I missed the follow-up, in 2022, Demiurge. What I do remember about the debut though was, while the churning Incantation-y murk was good stuff, the duo was really at their best when delivering more lumbering, grooving controlled riffs. And […]

I’m from Kentucky, the heart of Bluegrass and Country music, sort of… I think Nashville would disagree and probably Oklahoma, Kansas and any other state that cuddles up next to the southern states would as well. But to say I grew up around Country Music is an understatement, for years I was immersed in it. […]

Turkish brutes Carnophage have been slinging their brand of death metal since the early 00’s.  Matter of a Darker Nature is their third album and it’s been eight long years since their last album, Monument. This is 8 songs in 33 minutes of no-frills brutal death metal in the vein of the likes of Dying […]

There’s been some watercooler conversation about Darkthrone lately at the home office; specifically the difference between new and old and the new bands that pay homage to the early 90s era. I got a couple of recommendations and this is the first review for the newer-than-new debut for Avmakt and it’s called Satanic Inversion Of… […]

I reviewed South Africa’s brutal death metal/deathcore band Vulvodynia’s Praenuntius Infiniti album three years ago and was super impressed with the album, seeing I had been a recent fan of theirs and that was their best album up to that point. The signing to Unique Leader Records propelled the band as well and put the […]

For a while there in the early/00s, Nails was one of the flagship bands of what I call the “Southern Lord” sound. Bands like Nails, Trap Them, All Pigs Must Die, Black Breath, Dead In the Dirt, playing a filthy form of Swedish Death metal-hued d-beat, crust, grindcore/hardcore. And I’m confident in saying popular new bands […]

Power Metal has been part of my life since Helloween and their Keeper of the Seven Keys albums. A long time, considering that that first album was ’85-’86 I think. Manowar was around then, wearing animal skins and looking absolutely ridiculous. I confused (and wrongly assumed) that Hammerfall were Manowar clones. It might’ve been the […]

Category 7 is a brand new “super-group” which formed in 2023.  This self-titled album is their debut and the band members are John Bush – Vocals, Mike Orlando – Guitars, Phil Demmel – Guitars, Jack Gibson – Bass, Jason Bittner – Drums.  So we have these metal players who are currently in or were ex-members […]

I was and am a huge fan of Culture of Violence, Extinction A.D’s previous album so expectations for To the Detested were quite high. Truthfully, I would have been more than satisfied if it was just Culture of Violence Part !!. It’s not, but the high-energy spirit remains the same. I do intros, but luckily […]

OK, hear me out… 2024 has been a friggin’ WILD ride for the world of metal and extreme music. Like it or not, the spotlight has perhaps never shone brighter on our little deranged corner of the music world than it is right now. Ignore for a moment legendary stalwarts like Metallica, Iron Maiden or […]

God Dethroned is back with album number 12, and at this point, it’s difficult to keep rewriting the same review as Henri Satler and whoever is in his band (yet another different drummer here) are so god damn consistent at this point in their career it’s silly. After a trio of albums about WWI, Satler […]

I’ve been on a huge Lord of the Rings/ Tolkien kick recently and have been seeking out some music to satiate my need, enter Swedish duo Morcaint. Mornië Utúlië is the follow-up to last year’s Ellesar EP, and the duo of Ulvtyr and main composer Heruhim certainly know their way around Tolkein-themed atmospheric and melancholic […]