Posts Tagged ‘Deathcore’
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › B on Wednesday, October 13th, 2021
“Breathe in through your nose and out through your vagina.” This is the breathing process. At least that’s what I told a former friend who was getting a particular painful wrist tattoo. There’s also a band with the name The Breathing Process, and they may beg to differ. MAY. Anyway, I’ve never heard these blackened […]
Tags: 2021, Deathcore, J Mays, Review, Symphonic, The Breathing Process, Unique Leader Records
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › S on Friday, October 1st, 2021
Like it or not, deathcore is having a pretty solid comeback over the last couple or years, and it appears to be peaking in 2021 with Unique Leader Records leading the charge with releases from the likes of Distant, Osiah, To The Grave, Humanity’s Last Breath, Mental Cruelty, Worm Shepherd, Bound In Fear, (a few […]
Tags: 2021, Deathcore, Erik T, Review, Signs Of The Swam, Unique Leader Records
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › S on Friday, September 3rd, 2021
The debut album, Misery Sermon from these track suit and mask wearing Russian deathcore thugs was one of my guilty pleasures of 2017, but then they went a bit quiet for a couple of years. But a flurry of singles and videos in 2019, 2020 and 2021 (and even got the famed metal gunner/drummer treatment […]
Tags: 2021, Deathcore, Erik T, Review, Slaughter To Prevail, Sumerian Records
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › L on Friday, August 27th, 2021
New Jersey’s Lorna Shore has come a long way since I reviewed their 2013 EP, Maleficum, a decent but standard deathcore release that had a few symphonic elements here and there. But through 2015s Psalms and 2017s Flesh Coffin, they gradually added more epic, symphonic elements, but they really didn’t register as something special at […]
Tags: 2021, Century Media Records, Deathcore, Lorna Shore, Review, Symphonic
Posted in Frontpage Feature, Reviews, Reviews › C on Monday, August 16th, 2021
Despite being one of the early deathcore bands to successfully add keyboards to their repertoire and become more of a blackened deathcore band 4-5 albums ago, Carnifex has been surpassed by the likes of Shadow of Intent, Mental Cruelty and Lorna Shore when it comes to this supposed ‘blackened deathcore’ sound (and you could make […]
Tags: 2021, Carnifex, Deathcore, Erik T, Nuclear Blast Records, Review
Posted in Frontpage Feature, Reviews, Reviews › S on Monday, August 2nd, 2021
Sun of the Suns is a new band from Italy featuring members of tech-death act Carnality, deathcore stompers The Modern Age Slavery, and symphonic death metal band Nightland, but also features Francesco Paoli from Fleshgod Apocalypse helping out on drums. And for once, the FFO recommendations in the promo actually nail it pretty hard, mentioning […]
Tags: 2021, Deathcore, Erik T, Review, Scarlet Records, Sun Of The Suns
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › D on Monday, July 12th, 2021
I rather enjoyed 2019s Tyrannotophia, from this Dutch downtempo band, as it ended up being one of the better deathcore/ downtempo releases I have still heard. Then I found the follow-up EP, Dawn of Curruption a bit boring, and the band got surpassed by label mates Bound In Fear as the best band in the […]
Tags: 2021, Deathcore, Distant, Erik T, Review, Unique Leader Records
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › O on Friday, June 11th, 2021
Every time I’m ready to signal the death knell for deathcore, along comes a release that kinda gets me excited about the genre again, whether it’s a veteran band like Despised Icon coming back from the dead or a newcomer like Anime Terror. Right now it happens to be the Unique Leader duo of Mental […]
Tags: 2021, Deathcore, Erik T, Osiah, Review, Unique Leader Records
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › M on Thursday, June 10th, 2021
In the promo materials, Mental Cruelty is described as “haunting death metal.” As I’ve yet to be visited by any ghostly apparitions, I call shenanigans! However, when it comes to what style of music these dudes play, it’s more along the lines of symphonic brutal blackened deathcore. Think somewhere along the lines of Lorna Shore, […]
Tags: 2021, Deathcore, J Mays, Mental Cruelty, Review, Symphonic Metal, Unique Leader Records
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › H on Tuesday, April 13th, 2021
Like many, I’ve been waiting on a new Vildhjarta album for almost a decade now as the band has yet to release anything other than a few teasers and track or an EP since 2011’s, Masstaden. But little did I know there has been a perfectly good (and more productive) stand-in band lurking in the […]
Tags: 2021, Death Metal, Deathcore, Djent, Downtempo, Erik T, Humanity's Last Breath, Review, Unique Leader Records
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › B on Friday, April 2nd, 2021
Unique Leader has been heavy on the deathcore/downtempo so far in early 2021 with 2 conceptual EPs from Distant (both a bit underwhelming), Australia’s to To The Grave and their debut, Humanity’s Last Breath, and this the second release from the UKs Bound In Fear, and boy it is a doozy. Distant might have been […]
Tags: 2021, Bound In Fear, Deathcore, Erik T, Review, Unique Leader Records
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › A on Friday, April 2nd, 2021
Sometimes I sit around and wonder, “Man I wish there were more bands that sound like Despised Icon“, and lo and behold here comes Slovak Metal Army with the new EP from the Czech Republic’s Anime Torment, a veteran band with 2 full-lengths under their belt, but a new band to me. 20 Minutes of […]
Tags: 2021, Anime Torment, Deathcore, Erik T, Review, Slovak Metal Army
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › R on Thursday, January 14th, 2021
Yo, bro, do you like deathcore? Well, bro, do you, bro? I don’t know why I decided to start this review in such a way, but I figured I would just let you, dear reader and disciple, know what you’re getting into immediately. So, if you want to back out, I get it… but not […]
Tags: 2021, Deathcore, J Mays, Repaid in Blood, Review, Self-Released
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › A on Wednesday, August 19th, 2020
Fuck, I really overlooked this, the fourth album from Australia’s Aversion’s Crown. So, sorry for the belated review. I’ve enjoyed the last 2 efforts (2017s Xenocide and 2014s Tyrant), but can’t say I’ve revisited them much since their release. But holy shit am I glad I revisited this on a whim after hearing the closing […]
Tags: 2020, Aversion's Crown, Deathcore, Erik T, Nuclear Blast Records, Review
Posted in Frontpage Feature, Reviews, Reviews › I on Monday, August 17th, 2020
I own the Ingested albums, and I kinda liked 2018s Level Above Human, 2015s The Architect of Extinction, and 2009s Surpassing the Boundaries of Human Suffering. But I have never really loved the Brits output, preferring countrymates Infant Annihilator or Dyscarnate when it comes to British slams and breakdowns and always reaching for the likes […]
Tags: Death Metal, Deathcore, Erik T, Ingested, Review, Slam, Unique Leader Records
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › P on Thursday, July 23rd, 2020
I always like to support the local scene, which is more important than ever until somehow the world decides to unfuck itself. For me, there is a “local” scene just a few minutes away, but I really mean Pittsburgh, which is obviously larger and within an hour. Supporting this local scene is why I attended […]
Tags: 2020, Deathcore, J Mays, Lord of the Sick Recordings, Post Mortal Possession, Review
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › I on Wednesday, May 6th, 2020
I decided to check out the promo from Texas’s I Am Destruction, as it was a Unique Leader release, and that’s usually a fire hit. Also, this band and features guitarist Paul Dundas, who used to play is fellow Texans I Am, who I recently discovered and really liked, hoping for a similar styled and […]
Tags: 2020, Deathcore, Erik T, I Am Destruction, Review, Unique Leader Records
Posted in Frontpage Feature, Reviews, Reviews › S on Monday, February 17th, 2020
For a while there, in the mid /late 00s, at deathcore’s peak, Suicide Silence were mentioned in the same breath as genre darlings the likes of Whitechapel, Oceano, All Shall Perish, Despised Icon and such. Even after the tragic death of vocalist Mitch Lucker in 2012, the band were joined by Eddie Hermida (ex-All Shall […]
Tags: 2020, Deathcore, E.Thomas, Nuclear Blast Records, Review, Suicide Silence
Posted in Frontpage Feature, Reviews, Reviews › L on Monday, February 10th, 2020
I’ve been listening to New Jersey’s Lorna Shore since 2013/14’s EP, Maleficium, and 2015 debut full length Psalms . And while I enjoyed the band’s synth tinged take on deathcore, I never expected them to blow up into the full on symphonic blackened deathcore act that delivered Flesh Coffin in 2017. Well, after some delays […]
Tags: 2020, Century Media Records, Deathcore, E.Thomas, Lorna Shore, Review, Symphonic
Posted in Frontpage Feature, Reviews, Reviews › D on Monday, December 16th, 2019
As one of the godfathers, if not THE godfather, of the deathcore genre, Despised Icon have enjoyed a special place at the top for fans of the style. Though the band themselves have rejected the label, they have no doubt played a huge part in spearheading a genre that is oft-hated, but no doubt has […]
Tags: 2019, Deathcore, Despised Icon, Kevin E, Nuclear Blast Records, Review
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › F on Friday, November 1st, 2019
New Jersey’s Fit For An Autopsy got on my radar back when they started in 2008, as they initially featured one of my favorite vocalists of the era, vocalist Nate Johnson from very short lived deathcore act Deadwater Drowning as well as noise-mongers Premonitions of War. Even after Johnson left, Ive purchased all the albums, listened to […]
Tags: 2019, Deathcore, E.Thomas, Fit For An Autopsy, Nuclear Blast Records, Review
Posted in Frontpage Feature, Reviews, Reviews › I on Monday, October 14th, 2019
I’m not very familiar with the UKs Infant Annihilator, other than the ridiculous prices their first 2 albums are being sold for, and that some of the members are in down tempo act Black Tongue. But The Battle Of Yaldabaoth is my first time actually hearing them, and if it’s any indication, those prices are […]
Tags: 2019, Deathcore, E.Thomas, Infant Annihilator, Review, Self-Released, Technical Death Metal
Posted in Frontpage Feature, Reviews, Reviews › S on Monday, September 2nd, 2019
I’m on a bit of a symphonic metal kick of late, especially deathcore,jamming the likes of Carnifex, Ov Lustra and When Plagues Collide on a regular basis. So here is Connecticut’s Shadow of Intent, who are one of the online deathcore community’s darlings with 2 albums under their belt (Primordial and Reclaimer). They have made […]
Tags: 2019, Deathcore, E.Thomas, Shadow of Intent, Symphonic
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › O on Friday, August 30th, 2019
Most will roll their eyes at blackened deathcore with symphonic elements , but Arizonians Ov Lustra (“Of Glory? Of Shining?”Of Mirrors?) has absolutely knocked it out of the park with this ‘debut’ EP, utilizing some of the most effective orchestration I’ve heard in any metal genre with perfect results. Formerly known as Sun Speaker and […]
Tags: 2019, Black Lion Records, Deathcore, E.Thomas, Ov Lustra, Review, Symphonic
Posted in Frontpage Feature, Reviews, Reviews › C on Monday, August 19th, 2019
After Whitechapel’s The Valley, you could argue that Thy Art is Murder’s’ Human Target, and Carnifex’s 7th album are 2019s other ‘big name’, veteran deathcore releases. And while I have yet to hear Human Target, The Valley was phenomenal, so where does World War X stand? Well, I had some reservations when I saw/heard first […]
Tags: 2019, Black Metal, Carnifex, Deathcore, E.Thomas, Nuclear Blast Records, Review, Symphonic