Posts Tagged ‘Review’
Posted in Frontpage Feature, Reviews, Reviews › H on Monday, January 27th, 2025
You can virtually cut and paste my review of 2021’s Maere for this Austrian duo’s 6th album, as they are so locked into their despondent, post/ shoe gaze/ atmospheric black metal sound, it’s scary. That said, at a trim 67 minutes on 1 CD as opposed to Maere’s 2 CD, 84-ish minute affair, the band […]
Tags: 2025, AOP Records, Atmospheric Black Metal, Erik T, Harakiri For The Sky, Review
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › E on Friday, January 24th, 2025
For four albums now, Ex Deo, the Roman-themed symphonic death metal act from Kataklysm’s Maurizio Iacono has steadily improved from a lazy Kataklysm clone with keyboards to a pretty solid act. Well with a Switch of labels from Nalapm Records to Reigning Phoenix, here is a taster EP to celebrate the shift. After covering the […]
Tags: 2025, Death Metal, Erik T, Ex Deo, Reigning Phoenix Music, Review, Symphonic Metal
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › W on Friday, January 24th, 2025
The first time I heard Bolt Thrower was in their Realm of Chaos (Slaves to Darkness) from 1989. It turned my Metal mind to full tilt, opening up a whole other level of brutality and extremity. Living in England during the burgeoning Death Metal scene was a special time that I’ll always cherish being a […]
Tags: 2025, Death Metal, Jeremy Beck, Review, Self-Released, World Eaters
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › K on Friday, January 24th, 2025
Scotland is fucking beautiful. The Highlands are an amazing sight to behold, rolling, green, and absolutely vast. It’s a place that draws music from the people who in turn pull the rhythm from the very dirt itself. I’ve visited there and was stunned by the beauty. The lochs, especially Loch Ness are awe-inspiring. KILDONAN is the […]
Tags: 2025, Black Metal, Caligari Records, Jeremy Beck, Kildonan, Review
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › C on Wednesday, January 22nd, 2025
Cerebral Hemorrhage was a short-lived NYDM from the late 90’s to the early 00’s. In 2001 they released their only album Exempting Reality. They combined the slam and style of Internal Bleeding, Dehumanized, and Repudilation. All NY slam bands and I’ve even read online reviews about the debut album and vocalist Matthew Szablewicz being compared […]
Tags: 2025, Brutal Death Metal, Cerebral Hemorrhage, Comatose Music, Frank Rini, Review
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › R on Monday, January 20th, 2025
I missed the last album 2022s Born to be Dead, from Rogga Johansson’s Revolting project, just one of his 258 bands. However, the last time I heard them, on 2020s The Shadow at the World’s End, it was clear I was getting a bit bored with them, despite really enjoying the 3 album run of The […]
Tags: 2025, Death Metal, Erik T, Review, Revolting, Xtreem Music
Posted in Frontpage Feature, Reviews, Reviews › P on Monday, January 20th, 2025
When Panzerchrist released Last of a Kind in 2023 I was fucking ecstatic. It had been a long minute since 7th Offensive and their departure from the Metal community was deeply emotional (I know I cried like a bitch… not really but I was sad for sure) so when Last of a Kind was announced, […]
Tags: 2025, Black/Death Metal, Emanzipation Productions, Jeremy Beck, Panzerchrist, Review
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › A on Friday, January 17th, 2025
The year of the EP was 2024. Without a doubt I think I covered more Eps last year than any other in recent memories; granted that my brain is Swiss fucking cheese but whatever. Eps ruled! Abschwörzunge has unleashed hell with its incredibly bleak outlook on humanity in sonic form with Whorl. It’s a dirty, […]
Tags: 2025, Abschwörzunge, Black Metal, I Voidhanger Records, Jeremy Beck, Review
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › R on Thursday, January 16th, 2025
Something is going on in Tennessee. There’s stench in the air, it’s foul and nauseating and is permeating the Death Metal community with some fresh blood. Enter Ritual Fog from Memphis and their chest bursting debut But Merely Flesh. Following a split EP and the release of the single Visions of Blasphemy; both in 2022, […]
Tags: 2025, Jeremy Beck, Review, Ritual Fog, Transcending Obscurity Records
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › S on Wednesday, January 15th, 2025
Śmierć (‘Death’, ‘End of life’) is a long-running Swedish band paying to Polish hardcore with Polish titles and such. Opór (‘Resistance’) is their third effort and they were kind enough to reach out to the site directly and send me a copy of the LP, with its gorgeous artwork and all. The album is co-released […]
Tags: 2024, Crust, D-Beat, Erik T, Nikt Nic Nie Wie, Prank Records, Punk, Review, Śmierć
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › G on Tuesday, January 14th, 2025
I’ve always loved soundtracks and instrumental albums in general. This has been a great year for instrumental Death Metal and Dark Wave and these Italian maniacs have crafted a second amaze-balls album aptly named Gothron Vs Fartark. Apparently, there’s a story going on between these alien forces… It’s mind blowing, indeed. From the press release: […]
Tags: 2025, Gotho, Jeremy Beck, Review, Supernatural Cat, Supernatural Cat Records
Posted in Frontpage Feature, Reviews, Reviews › K on Monday, January 13th, 2025
Remember these guys? At one point in the mid-1990s Denmark’s Konkhra was on the very cusp of international metal stardom. As nu-metal exploded and death metal was selling out/transitioning to more commercial groovy sounds (Gorefest, Grave, Obituary, Entombed, Mercyless, Dismember, etc), Konkhra capitalized on this. And with albums like Sexual Affect Disorder, Spit or Swallow […]
Tags: 2025, Death Metal, Erik T, Groove Metal, Hammerheart Records, Konkhra, Review
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › D on Friday, December 27th, 2024
Darkness Everywhere: “Hey guys! I think, we might have released the best Light This City/Darkest Hour-influenced melodic death metal of 2024 with To Conquer Eternal Damnation, I mean c’mon, we have current and ex-Light This City members in the band!!!!” Druparia: “Hold My Beer”. Seriously, first off, go check out Darkness Everywhere‘s debut album To Conquer […]
Tags: 2024, Druparia, Erik T, Melodic Death Metal, Review, Self-Released
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › N on Thursday, December 26th, 2024
The debut album from Denmark’s Neckbreakker is a deathcore album. Unless you’re the boss, that may be a dirty word. I haven’t found much to like in what is inconceivably still the “it” genre. Don’t get me wrong, though. This is not THAT kind of deathcore. This is death metal with a heavy emphasis on […]
Tags: 2024, Deathcore, Hardcore, J Mays, Metalcore, Neckbreakker, Nuclear Blast Records, Review
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › M on Thursday, December 26th, 2024
I received a Mother of Graves shirt through the Metalhead Box a while back and whenever I get a shirt from them I’ll check out the band (most of the time it’s bands I’ve never heard of). Which brings me to the new album from these Indianapolis purveyors of monumental Death/Doom. The Periapt of Absence […]
Tags: 2024, Death/Doom Metal, Jeremy Beck, Mother of Graves, Profound Lore Records, Review
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › M on Wednesday, December 25th, 2024
I’m thankful for Death Metal. The crushing heaviness of daily life is magically mutilated with each blast beat and sick as fuck riff. Moss Upon the Skull has been the soundtrack to my life for the past week. They’ve been in the game since 2010 and released their “Imperial Summoning” single back in 2014 followed […]
Tags: 2024, Death Metal, I Voidhanger Records, Jeremy Beck, Moss Upon the Skull, Review
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › X on Tuesday, December 24th, 2024
I love the Alien film franchise—yes, even Alien 3 and Alien Resurrection. I also love brutal slamming death metal/deathcore. Italy’s Hideous Divinity mixed the two on their LV426 EP back in 2021, but France’s Xenotheory has entered the fray with their second album does to the genre what Aliens did to the films. Their 2022 […]
Tags: 2024, Brutal Death Metal, Deathcore, Erik T, Review, Self-Released, Slam, Xenotheory
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › P on Tuesday, December 24th, 2024
Sweden’s Paganizer returns with their 13th album, Flesh Requiem. This is one of Rogga Johansson’s main acts in the numerous amount of bands he is actively in, which is a lot!! Paganizer has morphed over the years into a quality Swedish death metal act, with the HM-2 buzzsaw guitar sound. It is not as bludgeoning […]
Tags: 2024, Death Metal, Frank Rini, Paganizer, Review, Transcending Obscurity Records
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › C on Monday, December 23rd, 2024
For 4 albums since 2020 , Sweden’s Carnal Savagery has been one of those solid to decent Swedish Death metal bands that I have enjoyed, purchased albums, etc, but never truly loved or considered an heir apparent to the legends of the genre. Despite members coming out of the genre’s birth in the early 90s […]
Tags: 2024, Carnal Savagery, Death Metal, Erik T, Moribund Records, Review, Swedish Death Metal
Posted in Frontpage Feature, Reviews, Reviews › H on Monday, December 23rd, 2024
Back in 1987 I was still discovering what Thrash Metal was. I was familiar with Metallica and Megadeth and when the opportunity came, I found myself buying Helloween’s Keeper of the Seven Keys part 1 at the local mall in Shreveport, Louisiana. Holy shit, not only were these guys fast as a fucking shark; they […]
Tags: 2024, Helloween, Jeremy Beck, Power Metal, Reigning Phoenix Records, Review
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › F on Friday, December 20th, 2024
There are crazy bands and then there are bands that throw logic out the window with the fucking baby. They twist sounds out of their instruments that sound like screaming robots one minute and then erupt into mindgasms that show the limits of electronics shattered one note at a time. Enough hysterical talk aside, Furze […]
Tags: 2024, Black Metal, Devoted Art Propaganda, Furze, Jeremy Beck, Polytriad Fingerprints, Review
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › O on Thursday, December 19th, 2024
I love surprises, mainly good ones. And ones involving symphonic black metal bands I’ve never heard of before, who turn out to fucking brilliant, are even better. Opus Irae hails from Germany, and Into The Endless Night is their debut album. It was mixed and mastered by Dan Swano, who needs no introduction, and the artwork is […]
Tags: 2024, Endtime Productions, Erik T, Opus Irae, Review, Symphonic Black Metal
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › R on Wednesday, December 18th, 2024
Rotpit are a filthy death metal band featuring members residing in Sweden and Germany. Ralf Hauber on vox (Revel in Flesh, Heads For the Dead), Jonny Petterson on guitars/bass (Heads For the Dead, Wombbath) and Erik Barthold on drums (Darklands) return with their second full-length album and have managed to make this a tad […]
Tags: 2024, Death Metal, Frank Rini, Review, Rotpit, War Anthem Records
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › A on Tuesday, December 17th, 2024
I have an unequivocal love for themed Death Metal bands. VHS, Fulci, Fluids, Satanic Tea Company and Surfin Bird Death Metallers Kólga. I mean, yeah there’s Alestorm but they’re sort of becoming a ‘party, party, drink, drink’ band like Steel fucking Panther and less fun than when they were keelhauling motherfuckers instead of getting plowed […]
Tags: 2024, A La Carte, Death Metal, Jeremy Beck, Review, Self-Released
Posted in Frontpage Feature, Reviews, Reviews › M on Monday, December 16th, 2024
Back in 2020, along with fellow revered 90s Black Metal acts Naglfar and ..And Oceans, Sweden’s Mörk Gryning returned after a long hiatus to deliver Hinsides vrede, and it was, like their peers, a killer return to the fray. delivering a perfect 90s throwback to…. themselves? and of course, the other two bands mentioned above. […]
Tags: 2024, Erik T, Melodic Black Metal, Mörk Gryning, Review, Season of Mist