Posts Tagged ‘Death Metal’
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › F on Friday, May 31st, 2024
What do you think of when you hear the word fluids? Soda? Water? Urine, semen, blood? With the band Fluids you know what you’re about to get… the absolute shit beaten out of your eardrums. Songs about the slimey and worm ridden carcass of this decaying planet and the human shit that inhabit it. Reduced […]
Tags: 2024, Death Metal, Fluids, Hells Headbangers, Jeremy Beck, Review
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › B on Thursday, May 23rd, 2024
Despite being around since 2016, Beneath the Blazing Abyss is the Finnish band’s debut and boy, is it an excellent, pummeling example of death/doom metal that is a very, very impressive first effort. If you enjoy mid-tempo trundling death with sprinkles of doom like Temple of Void, Grave, Malignant Altar, Vore, Hooded Menace, Frozen Soul […]
Tags: 2024, Baron, Death Metal, Erik T, Review, Transcending Obscurity Records
Posted in Frontpage Feature, Reviews, Reviews › S on Monday, May 13th, 2024
“It’s not the worst thing ever,” says the custodian as he scrapes all the dried cum from in and around the glory hole. I didn’t wish for him to elaborate, but by instinct, I said “Wouldn’t it be easier just to do it when it’s fresh?” He scowled and I received no answer. Foolishly, I […]
Tags: 2024, Death Metal, J Mays, Metal Blade Records, Review, Six Feet Under
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › S on Monday, May 13th, 2024
Non Stop Ruthless Crushing …..what???? I feel like there’s another word that was forgotten here. Anxiety? Diarrhea? Parental disappointment? I keed, I keed What we have here is a re-release of a 2023 effort from this Texas act formed by Jason Ramsey (notably from Baton Rouge’s Suture, who released solid albums on Deepsend Records, Unmatched […]
Tags: 2024, Death Metal, Erik T, Review, Skulldozer, Wormholedeath
Posted in Frontpage Feature, Reviews, Reviews › D on Monday, April 29th, 2024
At first glance, album number 13 from one of death metal’s true institutions Deicide, appears to be yet another by-the-numbers Deicide album that Bentons (yes I used it as a verb), blasphemes and blasts its way through another effort of Christ-hating death metal. And to some extent it does. It is most certainly a Deicide […]
Tags: 2024, Death Metal, Deicide, Erik T, Reigning Phoenix Music, Review
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › W on Friday, April 26th, 2024
A new Witch Vomit offering is almost a holiday ‘round these parts. It wasn’t a question of IF it would be covered, but more of a question of who would be; Myself or Steve K. Surprisingly, he put up no fight. I’m glad for once we didn’t come to blows (not that kind you dirty […]
Tags: 20 Buck Spin, 2024, Death Metal, J Mays, Review, Witch Vomit
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › R on Thursday, April 18th, 2024
Fun fact: This is the third intro I’ve written for my review of this album, all on different devices. I wasn’t satisfied, which is probably the story of my life and my exes’. I’m just going to mostly skip that part and go into the first track on Replicant’s new one, called “Acid Mirror.” Sharing […]
Tags: 2024, Death Metal, Replicant, Review, Transcending Obscurity Records
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › C on Tuesday, April 16th, 2024
When it looked like Germany’s Chapel of Disease was calling it a day a few years after their 2018, third album – the very wordy, …and As We Have Seen the Storm, We Have Embraced the Eye my buddy Graham (Deepsend Records) and I commiserated that this was not fun news. I have followed the […]
Tags: 2024, Chapel of Disease, Death Metal, Frank Rini, Review, Van Records
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › H on Monday, April 15th, 2024
The Netherlands Houwitser returns with their sixth album Sentinel Beast. If you are not familiar with Houwitser it is a project of former Sinister vocalist Mike Van Mastrigt. I was excited to hear that these guys were still active. If you have not, check out Mike’s other side band Neocaesar if you are a fan […]
Tags: 2024, Death Metal, Houwitser, Nick K, Review, Vidar Records
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › M on Friday, April 12th, 2024
Cleveland is a death metal town. I’m much closer to Pittsburgh but do make the journey to Cleveland somewhat regularly. My friend who books shows in Pittsburgh told me about a show he was considering but was on the fence. It happens to be my favorite band from this old-school death metal revival of which […]
Tags: 2024, Death Metal, J Mays, Maggot Stomp, Mutilation Barbecue, Review
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › A on Thursday, April 4th, 2024
Oh, Aborted. We share a little in common. When my parents talk about me, Aborted is brought up. It’s usually at the end of a sentence beginning with “you should have been,” but whatever. As for other things we have in common, there aren’t any. Their new album Vault of Horrors is indeed a new […]
Tags: 2024, Aborted, Death Metal, J Mays, Nuclear Blast Records, Review
Posted in Frontpage Feature, Reviews, Reviews › H on Monday, April 1st, 2024
Hideous Divinity is back with their fifth full-length album, Unextinct. The band opted to go the longest length of time in their career without ever releasing an album, as Simulacrum was released a year prior to COVID. The band was patient not to release a COVID album because they knew there would be no touring […]
Tags: 2024, Brutal Death Metal, Century Media Records, Death Metal, Frank Rini, Hideous Divinity, Review
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › O on Friday, March 29th, 2024
There’s a stunning level of consistency between this Italian orchestral death metal band’s 2021 debut, Apotheosis, and their latest EP, Veils Of Transcendence, despite the label change from Germany’s Rising Nemesis Records to homegrown label, Dusktone (who have been more on my radar recently for their reissues of Stormlord and Spite Extreme Wing albums). It’s […]
Tags: 2024, Death Metal, Dusktone, Erik T, Obscura Qalma, Review, Symphonic Metal
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › D on Friday, March 22nd, 2024
Three years ago I reviewed the second album Bushmeat from Dipygus. The band waited until after COVID to release their third album, Dipygus, a self-titled affair. This Californian sludgy death metal act has returned with their longest album, complete with their longest song, “Sacral Brain”, at over 11 minutes and the heaviness is just as […]
Tags: 2024, Death Metal, Dipygus, Frank Rini, Memento Mori, Review
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › V on Wednesday, February 28th, 2024
When I was still a young 20 something discovering Death Metal, I ordered a sampler from a label called JL America through a magazine called Wild Rags. I still have the cassette in my collection and through that one little cassette tape I heard Impaled Nazarene, Pyogenesis, Disastrous Murmur and of course, Acheron. The track […]
Tags: 2024, Anthology of Horror, Death Metal, Hammerheart Records, Jeremy Beck, Vincent Crowley
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › S on Friday, February 23rd, 2024
Stellar Remains is an entirely new venture by Dan Elkin. I’ve scoured the web trying to find more info, but all I have is from the promo materials, so pardon my ignorance. The record label, Gutter Prince Cabal, has only recently appeared on my radar thanks to Fryktelig Stoy. I am forever grateful for them […]
Tags: 2024, Death Metal, Gutter Prince Cabal, J Mays, Review, Stellar Remains
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › A on Thursday, February 22nd, 2024
It’s early days in 2024, but German newcomers Acrid Death (though with veteran members of other bands like All Its Grace, Driven by Entropy, and Synchronic) along with Ceremonial Death (on their split EP with Unformulas) look to be frontrunners for 2024s best HM2/Swedish death metal guitar tone. Fans of Entrails take fucking note here, […]
Tags: 2024, Acrid Death, Death Metal, Erik T, Review, Rising Nemesis Records, Swedish Death Metal
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › A on Tuesday, February 20th, 2024
Originally released last year on Oregon’s Headsplit Records, the debut from Spanish trio Apparation has been reissued by Germany stalwart label, FDA Records less than a year later, a testament to how FDA Records views Apparition. So the old-school cover should give it away, but Apparition (featuring ex and current members of Ataraxy, Bloodsoaked Necrovoid, […]
Tags: 2024, Apparition, Death Metal, Erik T, FDA Records, Review
Posted in Frontpage Feature, Reviews, Reviews › M on Monday, February 19th, 2024
Wisconsin’s best death metal band returns with their seventh full-length album Creation Undone. With mainman Axe Grinder and vocalist Dave Gregor fronting the band, they are on fire on this album. And I do want to get something out of the way right now. I really do not care how album covers are created – […]
Tags: 2024, Death Metal, Frank Rini, Morta Skuld, Peaceville Records, Review
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › S on Thursday, February 15th, 2024
I reviewed the debut album, Eroded Corridors of Unbeing, from Colorado’s doom/death outfit, Spectral Voice, in 2017. Seeing the band on their tour with Undergang, prior to the album, was a really awesome experience, especially since the members of Spectral Voice are also members of Blood Incantation. After various splits etc…since the debut album, Spectral […]
Tags: 2024, Dark Descent Records, Death Metal, Death/Doom, Frank Rini, Funeral Doom, Sparagmos, Spectral Voice
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › H on Wednesday, February 14th, 2024
I gotta say, so far I have not been real impressed with 2024. I started the year with a real good case of covid (I’m still not 100%), the Buffalo Bills simultaneously found new, creative ways to break my heart AND dig in to the “Best of” drawer of misery by once again kicking wide-right […]
Tags: 2024, Black Lodge Records, Born, Death, Death 'n' Roll, Death Metal, Hellman, Steve K, Suffering
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › B on Tuesday, February 13th, 2024
Norwegian Death Metal Juggernaut Blood Red Throne returns with their eleventh studio album. Nonagon sees the return of original drummer Freddy the Shred Boiso and the debut of new vocalist Sindre Wathne Johnsen. Things get kicked off in classic Blood Red Throne fashion with “Epitaph Inscribed.” The track intros with a nice solo guitar line […]
Tags: 2024, Blood Red Throne, Death Metal, Nick K, Review, Soulseller Records
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › M on Tuesday, February 6th, 2024
Mind Conflict is an international duo (Ivan Izmer — Vocals/Guitars/Bass, Stefan Andreev- Drums) with members in Portugal and the Middle East. Temple of God is their debut and they are influenced by old-school death metal and 90s metallic hardcore with lyrics about the shitty state of the world today. I don’t know much else about […]
Tags: 2024, Cavalcade Records, Death Metal, Erik T, Mind Conflict, Review
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › S on Thursday, February 1st, 2024
Getting all bleary-eyed and waxing poetic about a given band’s “old school sound” is one of the metal world’s most time-honored tropes. It’s not even just the old heads that can’t help but get all nostalgic for a good throwback, either – these days you’ll find no shortage of trucker hat-wearing, often-mustachioed young men with […]
Tags: 2024, Altered Realities, Dark Descent Records, Death Metal, Sovereign, Steve K, thrash metal
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › D on Wednesday, January 24th, 2024
The island state of Tasmania, located just across the southern Bass Strait from mainland Australia, is tiny. And being, you know, an island, it’s pretty isolated as well, despite it’s proximity to Australia. So it comes as no surprise that the output of quality metal bands from there might be a bit limited. That said, […]
Tags: 2024, A Storm of Steel, Death Metal, Domination Campaign, Old School Death Metal, Prosthetic Records, Steve K