France’s Esoctrilihum returns with their 11th full-length album Döth-Derniàlh.  Last year’s Astraal Constellations of the Majickal Zodiac was the longest album I have ever reviewed.  An album broken up into 3 discs, running over 2+ hours.  Esoctrilihum are one of the most fascinating one-man band acts out there, however, I know when I review, I […]

I have reviewed Connecticut’s Vomit Forth’s prior releases and since their debut album, Seething Malevolence, on Century Media Records, the band started to gain a lot more momentum, with tours and such.  However, they have not crossed the threshold to reach the heights of labelmates Frozen Soul and Sanguisugabogg. However, that could all change with […]

Long-running NWOBHM act, Satan, has gone on hiatus, broken up, and reformed, more times than I care to count, however, they first started out in 1979.  Since their last reformation in 2011, the band has been on fire.  Releasing four amazing albums during this time span and Songs in Crimson is now their fifth release […]

UK’s Phaëthon returns with their debut album, Wielder of the Steel, after releasing an impressive EP in 2020 Sacrifice Doth Call.  I had to look up on the net what the heck the band name means and it reads: “Phaethon also spelled Phaëthon, is the son of the Oceanid Clymene and the sun god Helios […]

I have reviewed all of Blood Incantation’s prior albums and am a huge fan of their studio and live work.  The band was smart with not releasing a COVID album and their last album Hidden History of the Human Race, from 2019, just like their debut Starspawn, was on Dark Descent Records.  The stable line-up […]

I have reviewed Oklahoma’s PeelingFlesh last several EP’s and now they have dropped their debut album The G Code.  For anyone unfamiliar with this band, take brutal slam death metal and mix it with hardcore and hip-hop/urban stylized rap/samples.  I find this new style of brutal music quite exciting and furthering this genre which can […]

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 […]

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 […]

  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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

It appears parts of Africa, namely, West Africa, has a bit of a burgeoning metal scene over the last several years.  One such stand-out is Arka’n Asrafokor.  Back in 2019 they dropped their debut album Zã Keli and now the band has followed it up with Dzikkuh.  Picture their debut album, but more extreme and […]

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 […]

Maggot Stomp, as I have stated before, is one of the best smaller, underground death metal labels out there.  They have been responsible for finding talent, early in a band’s career, and then the band blows up and gets bigger offers, such as Sanguisugabogg and Frozen Soul, jumping ship to Century Media Records a few […]

Greece’s Hail Spirit Noir is one of the most experimental bands out there.  Their last album, Mannequins, from 2021 I reviewed on here and I still really enjoy it.  This was their most audacious piece of work because it was made up of more synth/wave, 80’s horror movie instrumentals and sounds.  Only a handful of […]

Australia’s Werewolves have returned with their fifth album Die for Us, having released an album, each year, since their 2020 debut The Dead Are Screaming.  This time around, no longer with Prosthetic Records, like their prior albums, have released this independently. If you have slept under a rock for the last five years, and have […]

I’ve reviewed a fair amount of Denmark’s, Crocell’s releases and have enjoyed all of their albums.  The band started out as a pretty hefty sounding melodic, but chunky, style of death metal.  Several years ago the influx of black metal began to permeate into their releases and with their sixth long-player Of Frost, of Flame, […]

Boston’s Seven Spires were never on my radar until 2021, when our illustrious site owner, Erik “The Brave”, gave a glowing review to Gods of Debauchery, the band’s third album.  I loved the album so much, it made my year end list and I went through their back catalog to obtain their two prior full […]

Some black metal bands just get it!!!  One such band, who were one of the best at this, but sadly no longer around, was Aosoth, from France.  When listening to Akhlys, one would not necessarily think this was an American band.  However, over the last number of years, the States have been experiencing a swell […]

Canada’s brutal blackened /grind space death metal band Fractal Generator is back with their third album Convergence.  I am a huge fan of their debut Apotheosynthesis and the follow-up  Macrocosmos.  This band is a very intriguing and original band in many ways.  I find them exciting.  All their albums boast awesome artwork too, as this […]

Original second Sepultura guitarist, Jairo “Tormentor”, returns with the follow-up to the 2022 debut album, Antichrist Reborn, with The Troops of Doom new 11-song offering, A Mass to the Grotesque.  I reviewed the last album and there other EP’s and the entire line-up, since the 2020 band’s inception remains intact.  This provides continuity in the […]

California’s Cephalotripsy dropped one of the most disgusting, brutal slam-filled filthy debut albums in death metal history with Uterovaginal Insertion of Extirpated Anomalies in 2007.  The album cover alone was the price of admission!!  Outside of his other bands, some years later, such as Abominable Putridity, this is the album that put vocalist Angel Ochoa […]

UK’s Cloven Hoof has been around since 1979…yes you read that correctly.  Now while the band has broken up a few times, only to reform and release new material, the band has gone through many changes over the decades. For me, their 1984 s/t debut will always be my favorite of theirs.  It was evil.  […]

A few years ago I reviewed Embryonic Autopsy’s terrific debut album, Prophecies of the Conjoined, which was the new death metal act by now reformed Oppressor singer and friend Tim King.  Once again joining Tim on Origins of the Deformed is Scott Roberts on guitars and the band bringing in new members, Kenxi on bass […]