Switzerland’s Aara return with their sixth full-length album and marks the end of their Triade trio of releases.  I reviewed the last one in the series, Triade III: Nyx, in 2023 and Eiger, continues forth with the same stable lineup, as their prior albums. Boasting a very cold and depressing album cover ( “Eiger” is […]

2024 has been the year of the EP. I think I might have covered more EPs this year than in previous and that’s not a bad thing. They’re bite sized albums, five maybe six tracks; half an hour tops. Yet within those handfuls of tracks, magic (albeit a dark, blood soaked and decapitated rabbit) can […]

Sweden’s Wretched Fate has released 2 fine albums of Swedish-styled death metal, with their debut Fleshletting, back in 2019, and their 2023 follow-up, Carnal Heresy. Both put them near the top of the conversation as one of the bright newcomers in the genre. To remind us they are still a major player in the genre, […]

Italy’s Kaivs released the Horrend ep last year and all those songs have been re-recorded for their debut album – After the Flesh.  The Dan Seagrave type of striking artwork drew me into this album.  The color hues of yellow, purple, blue and red really is eye-catching.  It’s all fun and games with cool album […]

Witnesses man Greg Schwan told me before the release of Joy that it is his best album. That’s bold considering I hold his releases in high regard, but especially Doom II. It’s certainly because it’s the first album I heard. I like bold statements though because confidence makes me pay attention. To begin the album, […]

Mythbegotten is a folk metal band with epic metal qualities that combine brutality with black metal-ish musical moments.  The band hails from the New England/Upper areas of New York.  Over the last several years I have increased my knowledge of this genre and there are many various acts I enjoy with folk moments such as: […]

What the fuck is up with Deathcore vocalists? CJ McCreery (ex-Lorna Shore), Lucca Schmerler (ex-Mental Cruelty), CJ McMahon (ex-Thy Art is Murder), Jay Evans (ex-Ingested), and Worm Shepherd‘s Devin Duarte. All ousted/left due to some controversy or general shittiness. Well, Like Lorna Shore back in 2020 with Immortal, Worm Shepherd‘s third album was already mostly recorded before the […]

A traditional American dinner consists of meat and potatoes, usually with a vegetable of some sort. It’s one of my favorite foods because it fills me up and that’s how I often view American Death Metal; comparisons could be made but I’m not really going to go down a rabbit hole here so think a […]

Entheos, coming in hot! After what seems like a short amount of time, Entheos is back with an EP to follow up what was my album of the year, Time Will Take Us All. When I saw the band last time, I mentioned this to the frontwoman and overall badass, Chaney Crabb, and she asked […]

So Canada’s Trollwar is a new act to me, but they recently got on my radar, when I discovered that Matt Sippola from fellow epic Canadians, Atavistia provided some orchestration/choirs and clean vocals for Trollwar’s latest EP. Based on the band’s discography (2 full lengths and an array of EPs/Singles, which I immediately purchased after […]

Chicago’s Gigan has been around for close to 20 years.  I’m trying to wrap my head around this!!   I’ve known the main man and axe grinder Eric Hersemann for like 30 years.  On their last tour for their fourth album Undulating Waves of Rainbiotic Iridescence, I got onstage with them and did opening growls with […]

Today was a perfect Gothic day. The air was filled with the smell of burning limbs from my wood pile and there was a feeling of foreboding, impending doom on my mind. It was a perfect way to be introduced to the debut from Whispering Void, a collective of some of Norway’s most talented musicians; […]

We all know Jonny Pettersson (or Rogga Johanssen 2.0, as I like to call him) from his current and former work in multiple bands, including the now-defunct Henry Kane, Wombbath, Rotpit, Heads for the Dead, Gods Forsaken, Massacre, and others. While he is more known for Swedish-styled death metal projects, he has branched out (as heard on the […]

After a pretty extensive stay with Willowtip Records Defeated Sanity was snatched up by Season of Mist and Chronicles of Lunacy is their first release for their new label.  This is their seventh full-length album and Defeated Sanity knows how to pack a solid uppercut with streamlined songs.  It fits them best since they’re pretty […]

Nowadays, deathcore for me is like porn; what used to turn me on doesn’t work anymore. Whereas good old-fashioned, man-on-woman and a BJ or belly finish scene did the trick, now, I need a 40-person gang bang, a goat, goggles, Disney cosplay, and a hairdryer to even get remotely hard. And as for deathcore, a […]

I’ve reviewed my fair share of Sentient Horror releases and have seen this New Jawsey HM-2 Swedish-inspired death metal band live after their outstanding Ungodly Forms debut album.  I still feel their debut is by far their best release and their other releases have been good and well-received by the fans. Their last album, their […]

While Jeremy Wagner was on hiatus from Broken Hope back in 2002 (before they got back together), he, along with Broken Hope drummer Mike Miczek, started Earthburner, named after a Broken Hope song from Grotesque Blessings, to pass the time. However, Broken Hope reformed and released some more albums, but Earthburner was always sort of lurking […]

I am new to the sounds of Sweden’s Carnosus.  They remind me of Denmark’s Crocell, before Crocell went black metal.  This is pretty high-quality melodic death metal, which has a good chunk of brutality to it. Wormtales is their third album, and I picked up their previous releases after receiving this promo.  I mean just […]

Vivé le France part deux? See I just finished a review for fellow countrymen Mercyless,  and their recent Those Who Reign Below album,  and who could probably arm wrestle Loudblast for the notoriety of the first French Death Metal band. However according to Metal Archives, Loudblast is the first, so I don’t fucking know and […]

I’ve not been shy about Molder being my favorite of these new school death metal bands. I have a vest with their Gremlins back patch, signed by the band. Frontman Aaren Pantke signed it with an “OUGH.” I swear I didn’t put him up to it, but if I had, that’s exactly what I would […]

Canada produces, on average, some of the finest, most killer Black Metal and Death Metal. It’s the home to Black Metal titans Blasphemy, Death Metal tricksters VHS, and hordes of other, equally deadly bands capable of crushing the listener into mulch. Enter Sedimentum. Suppuration morphogénésiaque was at the top of my year-end list that year, […]

I rather enjoyed the 2022 debut album, Depravity from these Belgian lads as it meshed At The Gates and The Black Dahlia Murder-styled razor-sharp melo-death, and threw in some orchestration/keyboards here and there, which as regular readers know, gives me a major boner. So here is a 6 song EP to follow up Depravity, and […]

Just check out this album cover from Finland’s Ashen Tomb!!  Anytime you’ve got a Kaiju-sized maggot-encrusted corpse sitting down saying:  “Wow! I’ve had a rough life, I’m gonna sit my ass down for a break and maybe order me up some cheeseburgers” – well I’m gonna be all over the album, let me tell you. […]

Symphony Of Heaven is a Christian melodic black/death metal band from Indiana, that used to be on Rottweiler Records. But with their 3rd album has forged out alone like… that one guy…. that went … out to the wilderness? In the bible maybe? I’m trying here, that theology isn’t really my jam. What IS my […]

I initially decided to take this review strictly based on the album title, Fuckyourface.  I could not stop laughing when I saw this debut album title from Fupa Goddess.  A goregrind/death metal band spread out in the Carolinas/Virginia. I dare you to go to metal-archives.com to type the band name in.  Watch that scroll bar […]