Posts Tagged ‘Review’
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › O on Thursday, October 19th, 2023
From Helsinki Finland, Technical Dissonant Death Metallers Omnivortex returns with their second full-length Circulate. The album kicks off with “Dwells” which opens with a huge dissonant vibrato riff that leads the way for an impressive track. What makes Omnivortex unique is their dual vocal approach. Both the drummer Aaro Osterman and guitarist Aaro Österman manage […]
Tags: 2023, Inverse Records, Nick K, Omnivortex, Review, Technical Death Metal
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › J on Wednesday, October 18th, 2023
After 3 years, countless singles, EPs, and compilations former Amon Amarth and Blood Mortized guitarist Anders Biazzi and his cohorts are finally back with a full-length album (number 5) to follow up 2020s An Army at Dawn, one of the better Bolt Thrower worshiping albums of the last few years. But there are a few […]
Tags: 2023, Death Metal, Erik T, Just Before Dawn, Raw Skull Recordz, Review
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › B on Tuesday, October 17th, 2023
I love all things Brujeria. When they first were getting signed to Roadrunner Records the promotion for their upcoming 1993 debut Matando Gueros was genius. The magazine, pre-internet, had members of the label in a basement surrounded by the band, the band with bandanas around their faces and they had AK-47’s pointed at it was […]
Tags: 2023, Brujeria, Frank Rini, Grindcore, Nuclear Blast Records, Review
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › I on Friday, October 13th, 2023
New Yorks’ Immortal Suffering returns with a brand new EP- Extreme Torture. 5 songs of brutal NYDM, in 18 minutes. The perfect length of time for this release. The band adding some new blood into the band with: Taylor Schranck on bass and Jordon Mamaluke on vocals formerly the vocalist for another NYDM band Coronary […]
Tags: 2023, Brutal Death Metal, Frank Rini, Immortal Suffering, Review, Sevared Records
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › D on Thursday, October 12th, 2023
Spain’s Decapitated Christ has been knocking around for a while now releasing albums with titles like Antikristian Extreme Dekapitation, The Vanishment and Extermination of the Deities, and their last effort in 2014, Arcane Impurity Ceremonies. Well after 9 years they are at it again with album number 5, and while it’s probably not a reunion […]
Tags: 2023, Death Metal, Decapitated Christ, Erik T, FDA Records, Review
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › S on Thursday, October 12th, 2023
I didn’t discover this French one-man (Ardraos) melodic black metal project until the third album in 2019, Hic Regnant Borbonii Manes. However, I really enjoyed it (honestly, I’m not sure how it didn’t end up on my 2019 year-end list) and I have been eagerly awaiting its follow-up. The mix of completely over-the-top, busy, shredding, […]
Tags: 2023, Atmospheric Black Metal, Debemur Morti Productions, Erik T, Review, Sühnopfer
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › S on Wednesday, October 11th, 2023
With a moniker like Sodomisery, I blind-clicked on the promo for the band’s second album fully expecting a brutal death metal album full of ass, blood, and guts-filled lyrics with gurgled vocals. It was not that. Pleasantly so. Then I dug into the band a little and found it a more melodic Swedish death/black metal-based […]
Tags: 2023, Erik T, Melodic Black Metal, Review, Sodomisery, Symphonic Black Metal, Testimony Records
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › V on Tuesday, October 10th, 2023
When our fearless leader sent me this promo, I was not happy about the prospect of grind/punk bands doing covers of my favorite band, Type O Negative. In my inbox, it sat. Then, I thought about it, and remembered the hardcore roots of Peter Steele and how he infamously said multiple times regarding their next […]
Tags: 2023, 783 Punx, Grindcore, J Mays, Review, Type O Negative, Various Artists
Posted in Frontpage Feature, Reviews, Reviews › S on Monday, October 9th, 2023
Germany’s Sulphur Aeon has been dark for a few years now after churning (literally) out three superb albums of murky, majestic, Lovecraftian death metal since 2013, that had them being uttered in the same breath as the likes of Portal, Ulcerate, and such. But after a 5-year silence since 2018’s The Scythe of Cosmic Chaos, […]
Tags: 2023, Death Metal, Erik T, Review, Sulphur Aeon, Van Records
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › S on Friday, October 6th, 2023
With a name like Satanic Tea Co, it must be good, right? Well, I’m here to tell you that without a doubt, A Celestial Beating is a massive EP wrapped in an adorably evil box. It’s a small box, to be sure, 13.63 minutes of Brutal Death Metal that feels like a much bigger album […]
Tags: 2023, Death Metal, Jeremy Beck, Review, Satanic Tea Co., Self-Released
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › W on Thursday, October 5th, 2023
I usually check out almost all of the Purity Through Fire promos we get, as I usually know what I am getting; frosty or raw, or some sort of decent to excellent quality old school or second-wave inspired black metal, usually from Germany or Scandinavia. The likes of Eisenkult, Kryptamok, Mavorim, Noidva, and such have […]
Tags: 2023, Atmospheric Black Metal, Depressive Black Metall, Erik T, Purity Through Fire, Review, Wooden Throne
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › A on Wednesday, October 4th, 2023
I don’t know how many Volbeat fans there are dwelling in our dungeon, but if there are any, it may please them to know this is frontman Michael Poulsen’s return to death metal. “Return,” your dumb ass questions incredulously? Yes, return. If you’re unfamiliar with his band Dominus’s early material, I’d recommend familiarizing yourself, as […]
Tags: 2023, Asinhell, Death Metal, J Mays, Metal Blade Records, Review
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › P on Tuesday, October 3rd, 2023
I reviewed Germany’s Porta Nigra’s 2020 Schöpfungswut third album and was blown away by their avant-garde and brutal display of Black Metal. The band also had some industrial influences, as well as chest-thumping anthems….similar in style to certain Rammstein songs. Yes, the band continues to sing in their native German language, which is fascinating. As […]
Tags: 2023, Frank Rini, Porta Nigra, Progressive Black Metal, Review, Soulseller Records
Posted in Frontpage Feature, Reviews, Reviews › C on Monday, October 2nd, 2023
Despite being one of the first deathcore bands to dabble with black metal keyboards, Carnifex seems to have never quite fully committed to being a full-on symphonic/blackened deathcore band. The last two albums, 2019s World War X and 2021s Graveside Confessions, flip-flopped between more Whitechapel-styled deathcore and slightly more blackened deathcore that they introduced with […]
Tags: 2023, Blackened Deathcore, Carnifex, Deathcore, Nuclear Blast Records, Review
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › P on Friday, September 29th, 2023
Oklahoma’s PeelingFlesh are starting to gain some major attention and at the start of this year, I reviewed their PF Radio EP, right here, on Teeth of the Divine. If you snoozed, then go back and check it out. PeelingFlesh has yet to actually release a full-length album. They release EP’s, compilations and splits. I […]
Tags: 2023, Frank Rini, PeelingFlesh, Review, Slam, Unique Leader Records
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › E on Thursday, September 28th, 2023
The Second World War has been a go-to subject for any Black Metal band worth their salt. Hell, Marduk has made a career of it over the years and they don’t show any signs of stopping. So it’s not a big surprise that German Black Metallers Endstille are back with DetoNation hammering home the adage, […]
Tags: 2023, Black Metal, Endstille, Jeremy Beck, Review, Van Records
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › D on Tuesday, September 26th, 2023
Dripping Decay is the best kind of decay. Wet, sopping, moist decay. A sexy band name for a sexy collection of songs. Maybe it will make you drip by the end, too. If you couldn’t tell by that first paragraph, I have problems. Metal is the only thing on this planet that makes me happy. […]
Tags: 2023, Death Metal, Dripping Decay, J Mays, Review, Satanik Royalty Records
Posted in Frontpage Feature, Reviews, Reviews › M on Monday, September 25th, 2023
Those in the know and follow symphonic black metal, are aware that since their Piercing Through the Frozen Eternity EP in 2022, Finland’s Moonlight Sorcery has been touted as the next big thing in 90s-styled melodic/symphonic black metal. Some even saying they are going to be the next Dissection or Emperor, with a windy, grim, […]
Tags: 2023, Avantgarde Music, Erik T, Melodic Black Metal, Moonlight Sorcery, Review, Symphonic Black Metal
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › H on Friday, September 22nd, 2023
Another year, another excellent release from one of my favorite old-school death metal bands, Heads for the Dead. 5 songs in 24 minutes isn’t much, but maybe it will tide us all over until the next one arrives. All you have to ask yourselves is if they still sound like Heads for the Dead. The […]
Tags: 2023, Death/Doom Metal, Heads For the Dead, J Mays, Pulverised Records, Review
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › S on Thursday, September 21st, 2023
I’m only going to write the words Suicidal Depressive Black Metal once, so from this point, I’m going to use the acronym SDBM. You’ve been warned, constant reader. Shining was my introduction to this shadowed genre, I went through a devastating loss in 2013 and SDBM became my refuge. Bands like An Autumn for Crippled […]
Tags: 2023, Depressive Black Metal, Jeremy Beck, Napalm Records, Review, Shining
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › M on Tuesday, September 19th, 2023
I’m quickly becoming a very big fan of Sergio Gonzalez Catalan, the owner of the new Chilean label Tragedy Productions. Already having 2 killer releases under their belt that will be on my year end list. One is Numeron’s Road to Valhalla and the other is one of his many solo projects, Winds of Tragedy […]
Tags: 2023, Black/Death Metal, Depressive Black Metall, Erik T, Review, Tragedy Productions
Posted in Frontpage Feature, Reviews, Reviews › C on Monday, September 18th, 2023
Can you believe Chaos Horrific is the 16th album from Cannibal Corpse? Talk about an achievement in death metal. Seriously if they wanted to break up now who could blame them? They have accomplished more than enough and have given back to the death metal scene an enormous amount. That said, other than the album […]
Tags: 2023, Cannibal Corpse, Death Metal, Frank Rini, Metal Blade Records, Review
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › C on Friday, September 15th, 2023
Remember Seattle’s Black Breath? They released 3 solid albums from 2010 to 2015 on Southern Lord. They were one of the earlier, really good US bands playing a Swedish death metal/hardcore hybrid that was a bit of a precursor to the Gatecreeper’s et al of this world. Well, while Black Breath is indefinitely ‘on hold’, […]
Tags: 2023, Come Horrid Sigil, Erik T, Melodic Death Metal, Review, Self-Released
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › U on Friday, September 15th, 2023
Denmark’s sludgiest and filthiest band on the planet returns with a seven-song EP and my bud David Mikkelsen – guitars/vox is once again crafting some of the heaviest and gnarliest disgusting riffs known to man. Aldrig i livet was their last full-length released during the height of crappy COVID and was an excellent album and […]
Tags: 2023, Dark Descent Records, Death Metal, Frank Rini, Me Saco un Ojo Records, Review, Undergang
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › E on Thursday, September 14th, 2023
I have no problem feeling depressed or sad. Just ask my therapist! I don’t need a band or music to make me feel miserable, yet I seek it. Why? I don’t know, maybe ask Ethereal Tomb and their brand of sludgy doom. According to a quick search, this is the Canadian duo’s second full length […]
Tags: 2023, Doom/Death Metal, Ethereal Tomb, J Mays, Review, Self-Released