Posts Tagged ‘Self-Released’
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 Reviews, Reviews › W on Wednesday, December 4th, 2024
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, […]
Tags: 2024, Doom Metal, J Mays, Review, Self-Released, Witnesses
Posted in Reviews on Tuesday, December 3rd, 2024
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: […]
Tags: 2024, Fol, Folk Metal, Frank Rini, Mythbegotten, Review, Self-Released
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › T on Friday, November 29th, 2024
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 […]
Tags: 2024, Erik T, Melodic Death Metal, Review, Self-Released, Symphonic, Trollwar
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › A on Monday, November 25th, 2024
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 […]
Tags: 2024, A Scar For The Wicked, Deathcore, Erik T, Review, Self-Released
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › S on Wednesday, November 13th, 2024
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 […]
Tags: 2024, Erik T, Melodic Death Metal, Review, Self-Released, Symphony Of Heaven
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › V on Thursday, October 10th, 2024
Get out your pitchforks sluts because we’re about to talk about nu-metal. It’s a dirty phrase for some, but like it or not, it is making a comeback. As inexplicable as that may be, Vended are in that realm, but their famous fathers who are as well are bound to shed some light on the […]
Tags: 2024, J Mays, Metalcore, Nu Metal, Review, Self-Released, Vended
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › T on Friday, October 4th, 2024
Blackened Symphonic Death Metal is quite a mouthful – would you not agree? Torn from Existence hail from Colorado and have been around a few years and Hearken the Darkened Skies is their debut album. Hopefully, the band is getting this debut out to distros, labels etc..so this Self-Released album can be picked up by […]
Tags: 2024, Black/Death Metal, Frank Rini, Review, Self-Released, Symphonic, Symphonic Black Metal, Torn From Existence
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › A on Friday, August 30th, 2024
After a killer year in 2022, but then a relatively slow year in 2023, Symphonic/blackened Deathcore is back to having a superb 2024 with killer releases from Synestia/Disembodied Tyrant, Drown in Sulfur, Eden Adversary, Ruins of Perception, A Wake in Providence, The Archaic Epidemic, Vile Revelation, Downfall of Mankind and of course, Immortal Disfigurement (the […]
Tags: 2024, Art of Attrition, Deathcore, Erik T, Review, Self-Released, Symphonic
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › W on Thursday, August 29th, 2024
Australia’s Werewolves have returned with their fifth album Die for Us, having released an album, each year, since their 2020 debut The Dead Are Screaming. This time around, no longer with Prosthetic Records, like their prior albums, have released this independently. If you have slept under a rock for the last five years, and have […]
Tags: 2024, Blackened Death Metal, Frank Rini, Review, Self-Released
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › A on Friday, August 23rd, 2024
Along with Morgue and Sun of Nothing, Axamenta is yet another band I have not heard in 15-20+ years that I am hearing after a really long gap in 2024. I first heard these epic, melodic Belgians on 2001’s Codex Barathi, but it was on 2006s Ever-Arch-I-Tech-Ture , where they delivered a dizzying true tour […]
Tags: 2024, Axamenta, Melodic/Progressive Death Metal, Review, Self-Released, Symphonic
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › A on Friday, August 9th, 2024
Canada’s Atavistia has released 2 incredibly solid albums of epic, symphonic balanced metal since 2020 in The Winter Way and Cosmic Warfare, which made my 2023 year-end list (I can’t speak for 2017s One Within The Sun debut). And they continue their excellent productivity with a brand new 5 song EP. Inane Ducam (subtitled ‘I […]
Tags: Atavistia, Erik T, Review, Self-Released, Symphonic Black Metal
Posted in Frontpage Feature, Reviews, Reviews › C on Monday, August 5th, 2024
California’s Cephalotripsy dropped one of the most disgusting, brutal slam-filled filthy debut albums in death metal history with Uterovaginal Insertion of Extirpated Anomalies in 2007. The album cover alone was the price of admission!! Outside of his other bands, some years later, such as Abominable Putridity, this is the album that put vocalist Angel Ochoa […]
Tags: 2024, Brutal Death Metal, Cephalotripsy, Frank Rini, Review, Self-Released, Slam
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › T on Thursday, August 1st, 2024
I am bewildered by most things in life, but now it’s mostly about not seeing any coverage of Trog’s debut album, Horrors Beyond. It’s not that difficult to bewilder me (looking at you, avocados), but with the musicians involved, it is striking I haven’t seen much chatter. Those musicians in question; TJ Coon of Reeking […]
Tags: 2024, Death Metal, J Mays, Review, Self-Released, Trog
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › S on Friday, July 19th, 2024
Wow. Here is some really creative, unique black/death metal from a Dutch band I know nothing about other than they have 1 prior album under their belt. The actual ‘Shiva Hypothesis’ is a theory concerning extinction-level events and meteors, but the band is a 4 piece with ties to various other Belgian death metal acts, […]
Tags: 2024, Black/Death Metal, Erik T, Review, Self-Released, The Shiva Hypothesis
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › A on Wednesday, July 17th, 2024
So A while ago, I was having a crazy day and gardening was the main task at hand, but it was made all the better because El Jefe had sent me this promo and I was pretty anxious because of the “Black Metal meets Hawkwind” description in the press blurb. The promo went straight to […]
Tags: 2024, Aklash, Black Metal, Folk Metal, Jeremy Beck, Review, Self-Released
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › I on Friday, June 7th, 2024
I don’t know about the rest of ya’ll, but summer sure took its sweet ass time showing up ’round these parts. Yeah, it’s June now, and a lot of this country has been caught in the grips of an absolutely hellacious heat wave (sorry), but back when I had originally started listening to this release […]
Tags: 2024, Doom/Death Metal, Ischemic, Review, Self-Released, Steve K
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › F on Thursday, May 16th, 2024
Canada keeps kicking out sick releases in 2024. Quebec’s From Dying Suns return with their first LP Calamity. This band features members of: Augury, Killotorious and Aeternam. Matthew Dhani, the vocalist of Killotorious is also the live vocalist for First Fragment. It is also worth noting that Christian Donaldson of Cryptopsy mixed this. Calamity is […]
Tags: 2024, From Dying Suns, Nick K, Review, Self-Released, Technical Death Metal
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › D on Tuesday, May 14th, 2024
Hailing from California The Dread Crew of Oddwood, still falls into the metal category, although they play a combination of Celtic and Folk music, all interwoven into the Heavy Metal universe, however, they do it without electric guitars/bass. Instrumentation ranges from the stand-up bass, mandolin, tin whistle, drums, and accordion, just to name a few […]
Tags: 2024, Frank Rini, Pira, Review, Self-Released, The Dread Crew of Oddwood
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › D, Reviews › S on Friday, May 10th, 2024
Synestia is a new symphonic deathcore duo consisting of Minnesota’s Sam Melchior (all instruments, writing) and Finland’s Ville Hokkanen (vocals). In 2022 they released their fantastic debut album, Malificium, but it was digital only and got kind of bulldozed by that year’s slew of stellar releases in the genre from Shadow of Intent, Worm Shepherd, […]
Tags: 2024, Deathcore, Disembodied Tyrant, Erik T, Review, Self-Released, Symphonic, Synestia
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › N on Friday, May 10th, 2024
This certainly came out of nowhere. It’s an EP, not a new full-length, but new Necropanther is all I, and hopefully by extension, you need to know. Before really getting into the meat (dead panther meat, I guess) of the EP, this is exactly what I want from this medium. I’ve always thought of them […]
Tags: 2024, J Mays, Necropanther, Review, Self-Released, Speed/ Thrash Metal
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › V on Tuesday, April 23rd, 2024
This spring, two US-based, keyboard-heavy, melodic death metal bands will be releasing their second albums respectively. One, Philadelphia’s Malphas with Portal (via M-Theory Audio), and this album from Seattle’s more old-school influenced Veriteras. And it’s not even close to who the winner is as The Dark Horizon is absolutely stunning. Part of my enjoyment of […]
Tags: 2024, Erik T, Melodic Death Metal, Review, Self-Released, Veriteras
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › N on Friday, April 19th, 2024
4 years ago I reviewed the debut album, Decay from Glasgow’s Necrocracy and it was a rough and ready, solid release of no-frills, burly black metal. And then out of the blue, the band emails me and tells me about their new digital and cassette-only release they are dropping. So apparently the material on Predestiny […]
Tags: 2024, Black/Death Metal, Erik T, Necrocracy, Review, Self-Released
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › R on Friday, March 1st, 2024
If you fell asleep at the end of 2023 then you would have missed up-and-coming band Red Vinter’s We Built Our Own Death Machine demo, which literally dropped, right before 2024. While it’s a demo, any release that drops at the end of a year is dead in the water, so to speak. The band […]
Tags: 2023, Death/Doom Metal, Frank Rini, Red Vinter, Review, Self-Released
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › C on Thursday, February 8th, 2024
How does a New Jersey Tech Death based on the anime Neon Genesis Evangelion sound? Well, I am intrigued. Things get kicked off with “Synchronization.” First impressions are a mix of Spawn of Possession with a bit of earlier Archspire. The way they use vibrato is impressive. Pretty insane musicianship from these guys. Excellent guest […]
Tags: 2023, Chaos Sanctuary, Nick K, Review, Self-Released, Technical Death Metal