Posts Tagged ‘Review’
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › M on Wednesday, April 17th, 2024
Remember bands like Nails, All Pigs Must Die, Trap Them and other Southern Lord bands of the mid 00s? That grimy, downturned, feedback laced Swedish death metal-meets hardcore and grind/d-beat sound that Gatecreeper , Fuming Mouth and such expanded on more recently? Well, the UKS Mastiff is here to take you back to that with […]
Tags: 2024, Erik T, Hardcore, Mastiff, MNRK Heavy, Review, Sludge Metal
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › L on Tuesday, April 16th, 2024
I love a good mystery. One of the most used introductions “it was a dark and stormy night” always set the mood for some sort of dark mischief. So, today is not dark and stormy, yet I have a mystery on my hands. It concerns this band that El Jefe sent me called Lvme and […]
Tags: 2024, Black Metal, Jeremy Beck, Lvme, Norma Evangelium Diaboli, Review
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › C on Tuesday, April 16th, 2024
When it looked like Germany’s Chapel of Disease was calling it a day a few years after their 2018, third album – the very wordy, …and As We Have Seen the Storm, We Have Embraced the Eye my buddy Graham (Deepsend Records) and I commiserated that this was not fun news. I have followed the […]
Tags: 2024, Chapel of Disease, Death Metal, Frank Rini, Review, Van Records
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › H on Monday, April 15th, 2024
The Netherlands Houwitser returns with their sixth album Sentinel Beast. If you are not familiar with Houwitser it is a project of former Sinister vocalist Mike Van Mastrigt. I was excited to hear that these guys were still active. If you have not, check out Mike’s other side band Neocaesar if you are a fan […]
Tags: 2024, Death Metal, Houwitser, Nick K, Review, Vidar Records
Posted in Frontpage Feature, Reviews, Reviews › M on Monday, April 15th, 2024
So album number 14 (or 15, depending on how you view 2011s Evinta) from England’s long-running Godfathers of Doom sees the band continue down the path of the last album, 2020s The Ghost of Orion, and the subsequent Macabre Cabaret EP both releases I was a bit ambivalent on. Since the band’s 1999 transitional effort […]
Tags: 2024, Doom Metal, Erik T, My Dying Bride, Nuclear Blast Records, Review
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › M on Friday, April 12th, 2024
Cleveland is a death metal town. I’m much closer to Pittsburgh but do make the journey to Cleveland somewhat regularly. My friend who books shows in Pittsburgh told me about a show he was considering but was on the fence. It happens to be my favorite band from this old-school death metal revival of which […]
Tags: 2024, Death Metal, J Mays, Maggot Stomp, Mutilation Barbecue, Review
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › A on Thursday, April 11th, 2024
Looking back to 1992. I was living in England at the time due to my dad being stationed there with the Air Force. I spent many hours in the base record store, I discovered so many bands while living over there and Atrophy was one of them. It was a track on a compilation called […]
Tags: 2024, Atrophy, Jeremy Beck, Massacre Records, Review, thrash metal
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › D on Wednesday, April 10th, 2024
Norway’s Deception returns with their second full-length album Daenacteh. I have been a fan of Deception since their last record The Mire (2019). I was also pleased earlier in the year to find out that their guitarist vocalist Sindre Wathne Johnsen is now the new vocalist for Blood Red Throne. For those not familiar with […]
Tags: 2024, Deception, Melod, Mighty Music, Nick K, Review
Posted in Frontpage Feature, Reviews, Reviews › I on Monday, April 8th, 2024
In 2022 UK deathcore/slam titans Ingested dropped Ashes Lie Still, a more experimental and tempered album that showed the band’s more introspective side as frontman Jason Evans dealt with the loss of his father. The band also clearly saw some of the success Whitechapel had with their duo of The Valley and Kin, as more […]
Tags: 2024, Deathcore, Erik T, Ingested, Metal Blade Records, Review
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › A on Friday, April 5th, 2024
To coincide with their current US tour, pirate rockers Alestorm have dropped a 5 song EP following up 2022s excellent Seventh Rum of a Seventh Rum album. You know exactly what you are getting with Alestorm at this point in their prolifically fun discography while and that does not change with the short little EP, […]
Tags: 2024, Alestorm, Erik T, Napalm Records, Review
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › K on Thursday, April 4th, 2024
Well, I used a flaming tree limb as an air guitar for the first time today (I should mention that I was pretending it was driftwood from some sunken wreck) so… that’s something new. But I couldn’t help it, something was possessing me and moving me forward to this lava black beach. Yeah, that’s right, […]
Tags: 2024, Black Metal, Jeremy Beck, Kólga, Otitis Media Records, Review, Sybreed
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › A on Thursday, April 4th, 2024
Oh, Aborted. We share a little in common. When my parents talk about me, Aborted is brought up. It’s usually at the end of a sentence beginning with “you should have been,” but whatever. As for other things we have in common, there aren’t any. Their new album Vault of Horrors is indeed a new […]
Tags: 2024, Aborted, Death Metal, J Mays, Nuclear Blast Records, Review
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › M on Tuesday, April 2nd, 2024
Shattered Earth Records is a relatively new label with ties to the excellent Dragoncorpse and has awesome bands like Hanging the Nihilist, Spitpool, Obscure Mantra, Loathsome and The Pelennor Field Tragedgy (yes, epic Tolkien-themed deathcore) on their roster. So when they sent me the new release from Memento Mori, I had to check it out….eventually […]
Tags: 2024, Deathcore, Erik T, Memento Mori, Review, Shattered Earth Records
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › M on Tuesday, April 2nd, 2024
In Demonology, Malphas is a demonic grand president of hell and is second in command to Satan. He commands 40 legions of demons and he appears as a crow to any summoners. It’s also a melodic death metal band from Philadelphia that uses its demonic namesake as the basis for all its lyrics, songs, and […]
Tags: 2024, Erik T, M-Theory Audio, Malphas, Melodic Death Metal, Review
Posted in Frontpage Feature, Reviews, Reviews › H on Monday, April 1st, 2024
Hideous Divinity is back with their fifth full-length album, Unextinct. The band opted to go the longest length of time in their career without ever releasing an album, as Simulacrum was released a year prior to COVID. The band was patient not to release a COVID album because they knew there would be no touring […]
Tags: 2024, Brutal Death Metal, Century Media Records, Death Metal, Frank Rini, Hideous Divinity, Review
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › E on Friday, March 29th, 2024
I reviewed Exhorder’s comeback album, Mourn the Southern Skies, in 2019 on TOTD. While I enjoyed the album, and as a comeback album it was good, but still left some meat on the bone, so to speak. There were aggressive songs, however, I felt, much of the album was marred by sludgy slow songs, that […]
Tags: 2024, Exhorder, Frank Rini, Nuclear Blast Records, Review, thrash metal
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › O on Friday, March 29th, 2024
There’s a stunning level of consistency between this Italian orchestral death metal band’s 2021 debut, Apotheosis, and their latest EP, Veils Of Transcendence, despite the label change from Germany’s Rising Nemesis Records to homegrown label, Dusktone (who have been more on my radar recently for their reissues of Stormlord and Spite Extreme Wing albums). It’s […]
Tags: 2024, Death Metal, Dusktone, Erik T, Obscura Qalma, Review, Symphonic Metal
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › S on Thursday, March 28th, 2024
I’ve been on a bit of a black metal kick of late, and one band that has scratched that particular itch is German trio Stiriah and their third album, Portal, released back in February. Lying squarely in the 90s second wave, with a semi-melodic and symphonic sound (there are keyboards here and there but it’s […]
Tags: 2024, Black Metal, Crawling Chaos, Erik T, Review, Stiriah
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › B on Wednesday, March 27th, 2024
Brat may very well become the new “it” band. Oddly enough, I recently saw them with Escuela Grind (for the 7th or 8th time), Bonginator, and Take Offense. A gentleman slightly older than I called Escuela the new “it” band and it was hard to argue. After he saw them for the first time, he […]
Tags: 2024, Brat, Grindcore, J M, Prosthetic Records, Review
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › A on Tuesday, March 26th, 2024
I went blindly into the promo for this release, as I have been in an ‘atmospheric black metal’ mood of late. But then I dug into the project more and was even more excited as it’s a multinational trio comprised of Jacob Buczarski of Mare Cognitum on drums, an Argentine dude named Dany Tee on […]
Tags: 2024, Acathexis, Amor Fati, Atmospheric Black Metal, Erik T, Extraconscious Records, Review
Posted in Frontpage Feature, Reviews, Reviews › R on Monday, March 25th, 2024
35 years. Existence and longevity come from quality and excellence. Releasing album after album with diabolical precision has been the Rotting Christ ethic throughout their career, since 1988 when they were a Grindcore band and then transitioning to Black Metal in the early 90s with 1993’s Thy Mighty Contract, they have forged and put together […]
Tags: 2024, Atmospheric Black Metal, Jeremy Beck, Review, Rotting Christ, Season of Mist
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › D on Friday, March 22nd, 2024
Three years ago I reviewed the second album Bushmeat from Dipygus. The band waited until after COVID to release their third album, Dipygus, a self-titled affair. This Californian sludgy death metal act has returned with their longest album, complete with their longest song, “Sacral Brain”, at over 11 minutes and the heaviness is just as […]
Tags: 2024, Death Metal, Dipygus, Frank Rini, Memento Mori, Review
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › W on Thursday, March 21st, 2024
I have been waiting patiently for the first full-length from these sickos from Chicago patiently since their 2019 Light Eater EP debut. So, here we are, nine-track debut album. The opening track “Of Ruin” sets the tempo for the whole album. Kicking things off with a two-minute instrumental is a bold choice but it works […]
Tags: 2024, Everlasting Spew Records, Nick K, Review, Technical Death Metal, Wounds
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › D on Thursday, March 21st, 2024
Did you know Darkest Hour was still together? I didn’t. I mean the last thing I reviewed by them was 2009s The Eternal Return. They have released 2 albums since then with 2014s self-titled effort and 2017s Godless Prophets & the Migrant Flora, I own apparently but lord knows I could not tell you when […]
Tags: 2024, Darkest Hour, Erik T, Metalcore, MNRK Heavy, Review
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › S on Wednesday, March 20th, 2024
Good Lord, it’s been 21 years since I heard this Greek blackened-sludge band’s debut, …and Voices, Words, Faces, Complete the Dream way back in 2003. It was, and still is one of the more caustic, brittle, and downright nasty albums I have ever covered, especially vocally. I guess the band has dropped 2 other albums […]
Tags: 2024, Erik T, Review, Sludge Metal, Sun of Nothing, Venerate Industries