Posts Tagged ‘Review’
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › C on Friday, March 28th, 2025
Bands have been releasing B-side album collections for years, and they’re always cleverly titled so you know what you’re getting. We’ll, CrusHuman have done that with Besides… my stupid ass didn’t realize it was a B-side album until I read the presser. Holy hell, it’s songs that didn’t make it onto their amazing self-titled debut. […]
Tags: 2025, CrusHuman, Grindcore, Horror Pain Gore Death Productions, Jeremy Beck, Review
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › C on Thursday, March 27th, 2025
I’ve covered this husband-and-wife duo for two EPs now, first with 2022’s The Void and then 2023’s Elemental Binding. Both deliver excellent, discordant death metal with themes based on video games, D&D, and such. So I was super happy for the band when they signed with Transcending Obscurity, a perfect label for them. And the duo (Sunshine Schneider—guitar, […]
Tags: 2024, Crown of Madness, Death Metal, Erik T, Review, Transcending Obscurity Records
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › D on Wednesday, March 26th, 2025
I once saw progressive black metallers, Dawn of Ouroboros shortly after their debut, The Art of Morphology was released at one of my favorite Pittsburgh area venues, Black Forge Coffee House. I had reviewed it, enjoyed it, and went to the show thinking it would be sparsely attended. Unfortunately, I was right, but they still put on a […]
Tags: 2025, Atmospheric Black Metal, Black/Progressive Metal, Dawn of Ouroboros, J Mays, Prosthetic Records, Review
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › K on Tuesday, March 25th, 2025
Norway’s Kryptograf came under my radar in 2022 with their sophomore release The Eldorado Spell. I loved it so much that I reviewed it, it was in my top 10 that year and I obtained their killer s/t debut. The band plays a very heavy stoner doom/ psychedelic metal and with album number three – […]
Tags: 2025, Apollon Records, Doom Metal, Frank Rini, Kryptograf, Review
Posted in Frontpage Feature, Reviews, Reviews › C on Monday, March 24th, 2025
After two excellent, reinvigorated albums in Hammer of the Witches and Crytoriana, Dani Filth and his hired gang of ever-changing musical mercenaries, took a step back with 2021, Existence is Futile, where the constant line-up changes, appeared to have taken its toll, mainly Lindsey Schoolcraft, who was settling into her role as the new Sara […]
Tags: 2025, Cradle of Filth, Erik T, Napalm Records, Review, Symphonic Black Metal
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › C on Friday, March 21st, 2025
Colorado’s deathcore kings are here to beat your fucking face in. Right the fuck in. No theatrics, no choirs, no sweeping symphonics (ok, maybe just a smidge in 2 songs), just 4 songs in 18 minutes to remind you they arguably sit atop or near the top of the current pure deathcore heap. After delivering […]
Tags: 2025, Crown Magnetar, Deathcore, Erik T, Review, Unique Leader Records
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › A on Thursday, March 20th, 2025
It’s pretty crazy to think Dave Rotten’s Avulsed has been around for over 30+ years. Phoenix Cryptobiosis is the band’s 8th full-length album and the band shows no sign of slowing down. Avulsed still plays a filthy style of death metal, that is quite a bit reminiscent of early Cannibal Corpse. When I listen to […]
Tags: 2025, Avulsed, Death Metal, Frank Rini, Review, Xtreem Music
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › D on Wednesday, March 19th, 2025
The first time I heard the song “Balls to the Wall” by Accept was on one of those compilation Metal albums that were put out by K-Tel in the 80s. I still have the record, it’s called Slave to the Metal and I bought it in 1986. It’s one of those songs and albums that […]
Tags: 2025, CS Squared Music, Dirkschneider, Heavy Metal, Jeremy Beck, Reigning Phoenix Music, Review
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › P on Tuesday, March 18th, 2025
Are you ready for some quality Power-Metal?? Indiana’s Prehistoria released a very good debut ep, in 2022, Cursed Lands. It fell under the radar, but it showcased some excellent songwriting and lots of noodly guitar moments. Armed with a label, Stormspell Records, known for their high quality output of classic and power metal bands, Cryptic […]
Tags: 2025, Frank Rini, Power Metal, Prehistoria, Review, Stormspell Records
Posted in Frontpage Feature, Reviews, Reviews › I on Monday, March 17th, 2025
I was late to the Istapp (‘icicle’) party, only discovering them on 2019’s stellar, The Insidious Star, but subsequently going back and listening to prior albums from the mid-10’s like Blekinge and Frostbiten. Honestly, though I had kind of forgotten about them, but 6 years after The Insidious Star a revamped Istapp is back. There […]
Tags: 2025, Erik T, Istapp, Melodic Black Metal, Review, Trollzorn Records
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › T on Friday, March 14th, 2025
From the promotional email: FFO: Mental Cruelty, Worm Shepherd, Lorna Shore Yep, I’m in. How these Brits haven’t been on my radar before this EP is a mystery to me. They play my favorite genre of music right now and reside on one of the better independent labels doing said genre. But trust me after […]
Tags: 2025, Deathcore, Erik T, Review, Seek and Strike, Symphonic, To Obey A Tyrant
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › A on Wednesday, March 12th, 2025
There’s a scourge festering on the skin of this country. Without getting stuck in the weeds of politics that noxious odor of corruption is sneaking it’s way into every fabric and nook and cranny. It’s time for angry music again, we need to release our frustrations and what better way than with blast beats? The […]
Tags: 2025, Act of Impalement, Caligari Records, Death Metal, Jeremy Beck, Review
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › C on Tuesday, March 11th, 2025
Alabama’s Chaos Inception released two cool albums years ago. Collision with Oblivion in 2009 and The Abrogation in 2012. Both albums were heavily influenced by the first three Tucker lead Morbid Angel albums. Stick with me, since this is like six degrees of Chaos Inception! Well, Vengeance Evangel is the long-awaited third album after line-up […]
Tags: 2025, Chaos Inception, Death Metal, Frank Rini, Lavadome Productions, Review
Posted in Frontpage Feature, Reviews, Reviews › W on Monday, March 10th, 2025
After bursting on the scene with their 2007 debut, The Somatic Defilement, Tennessee’s Whitechapel quickly rose to the top of deathcore hierarchy with the follow-up, This Is Exile, in 2008, still a classic in the genre all these years later. However, subsequent albums like Our Endless War, Whitechapel, Mark of the Blade, and A New […]
Tags: 2025, Deathcore, Erik T, Metal Blade Records, Review, Whitechapel
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › M on Thursday, March 6th, 2025
Mantar of course means half man/half centaur. Don’t try to add it up, just trust me. Your guess is as good as mine which member of the duo represents each part, but they’ve been slitting throats with their blackened sludge/punk metal hybrid for over a decade. Since their official debut, Death by Burning in 2014, […]
Tags: 2025, Black Metal, J Mays, Mantar, Metal Blade Records, Review
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › A on Wednesday, March 5th, 2025
Finland’s Admire The Grim, are a new melodic death metal band that leans heavily into their country’s fairly rich history of the genre. On their debut album, Resist they deliver a competent if by-the-numbers album of shredding, tightly played, melodeath that fans of Children of Bodom, Kalmah, and such should definitely appreciate. Fronted by Katri Snellman […]
Tags: 2025, Admire The Grim, Erik T, Inverse Records, Melodic Death Metal, Review
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › C on Tuesday, March 4th, 2025
When Håkan Stuvemark contacts me I listen! He’s in a zillion bands. Most notably, for my liking is: Wombbath (my review forthcoming), Rex Demonus and Consumption. We’ve been in touch for like 5 years now and I did review the first Consumption album back in 2020, Recursive Definitions of Suppuration and loved the music and […]
Tags: 2025, Consumption, Death Metal, Dusktone, Frank Rini, Review
Posted in Frontpage Feature, Reviews, Reviews › H on Monday, March 3rd, 2025
Finland’s Havukruunu ( ‘coniferous crown’) first got on my radar with 2017’s Kelle Surut Soi, but in 2020, they obliterated my radar with 2020’s Uinuos syömein sota, which was my clear-cut favorite album of the year. The funny thing is, we have never actually reviewed them! Well let’s fix that together, shall we? The word […]
Tags: 2025, Atmospheric Black Metal, Erik T, Havukruunu, Review, Svart Records, Viking/Folk Metal
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › O on Friday, February 28th, 2025
Listen up, fans of early Gatekeeper, Terminal Nation, Fuming Mouth, Kruelty, Acephalix, Vastum, and Xibalba take fucking note. You need the debut from Arkansas’ Open Kasket in your life, right fucking now!!! Open Kasket plays a form of meaty, girthy beatdown/hardcore-driven death metal that lumbers and slopes with bad fucking intentions at every turn. With […]
Tags: 2025, Barbaric Brutality Records, Death Metal, Erik T, Hardcore, Open Kasket, Review
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › S on Thursday, February 27th, 2025
“After hearing the chainsaws on a daily basis, we knew it was time to act”, says musician-turned-activist Sylvain Demercastel, “because the buzzing is only getting louder”. It’s no secret that the rainforest is essential for us to live. It’s been referred to as the lungs of the Earth for very good reasons; but due to […]
Tags: 2025, Alternative Metal, Death Metal, Jeremy Beck, Review, Savage Lands, Season of Mist
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › I on Wednesday, February 26th, 2025
I actually got this promo in the fall of 2024. I immediately enjoyed it, planning on doing a review for its early 2025 release, but as usual, life, other promos, and work got in the way, and I forgot about it. But here we are, and let’s get to it. Adorned with a wonderfully 90s […]
Tags: 2025, Art Gates Records, Black/Death Metal, Erik T, Infested Angel, Review
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › R on Tuesday, February 25th, 2025
Like a phoenix rising from the ashes, this is 4/5 of Swedish tech death legends Spawn of Possession, reborn: Guitarists Jonas Bryssling and Christian Muenzner, vocalist Dennis Röndum and bassist Erlend Caspersen. And they welcome into the fold, the new dude, Odius Mortem drummer KC Howard. I loved Spawn of Possession and felt their final […]
Tags: 2025, Frank Rini, Retromorphosis, Review, Season of Mist, Technical Death Metal
Posted in Frontpage Feature, Reviews, Reviews › J on Monday, February 24th, 2025
There are so many highlights on this album that it’s stupid to reduce them to a review, especially one coming from a writer such as myself (read: a shitty one). For once this isn’t about me, but the new album from The Ukraine’s Jinjer, called Duél. I’m this close (damn, look at how close my […]
Tags: 2025, Djent, J Mays, jinjer, Metalcore, Napalm Records, Review
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › B on Friday, February 21st, 2025
Being a near-40 year old who grew up in the Northeast, it probably comes as little surprise to you that the American Metalcore and New Wave of American Heavy Metal movements of the early ’00s played a pretty pivotal role in my music fandom. While I certainly cut my teeth on the usual suspects of […]
Tags: 2025, Bleeding Through, Metalcore, Review, SharpTone Records, Steve K
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › P on Thursday, February 20th, 2025
Boston’s Pathogenic is a new act to me but they have been around a while with a debut album, Cyclopean Imagery way back in 2011, and a self-titled follow-up album in 2019. Neither of which I have heard. But I was looking for an early 2025 release to review, and the promotional description of ‘progressive […]
Tags: 2024, Djent, Erik T, Pathogenic, Progressive Metal/Djent, Review, Skepsis Recordings