Posts Tagged ‘Technical Death Metal’
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › V on Tuesday, October 26th, 2021
Vulvodynia from South Africa are one of the heavy hitters in the brutal death metal/deathcore scene and in their short 7 year existence, have garnered quite a nice following, as well as releasing 3 prior full lengths and ep’s. Just like Korpse, Vulvodynia, were another free agent Unique Leader picked up and this year has […]
Tags: 2021, Frank Rini, Slam, Technical Death Metal, Unique Leader Records, Vulvodynia
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › F on Monday, October 25th, 2021
Stop me if you’ve heard this before – the best technical death metal album of the year is Ominous Ruin, no wait! it’s Hannes Grossman, oh no, shit it’s Ophidian I. That’s it! PHEW. I hope nothing else comes out that will change that…. Obscura , Archspire, and First Fragment “Oh, Hai!” Shit. Listen, there’s a […]
Tags: 2021, Erik T, First Fragment, Review, Technical Death Metal, Unique Leader Records
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › I on Friday, October 15th, 2021
I’ve been covering Inferi since 2009s End of an Era, and since then they have become The Artisan Era’s flagship band and one of the mainstays of the melodic/shredding technical death metal genre in the US scene. They have not been super prolific, with 2 more albums, an EP and a redo of End of […]
Tags: 2021, Erik T, Inferi, Melodic Death Metal, Review, Technical Death Metal, The Artisan Era
Posted in Frontpage Feature, Reviews, Reviews › C on Monday, July 26th, 2021
You are starting to hear and feel the impact of covid and the chaotic final year of Trump’s administration on some albums being put out now. Albums that were written in seclusion, online, in depressive states, in rage. I think we are seeing a real creative burst in the metal scene, that might be one […]
Tags: 2021, Cognitive, Erik T, Review, Technical Death Metal, Unique Leader Records
Posted in Frontpage Feature, Reviews, Reviews › O on Monday, July 19th, 2021
Fuck. So back in February, I swore that Ominous Ruin‘s Amid Voices That Echo in Stone would be the tech death album of the year. Then shortly after that, Stortgren’s Impermanence, was definitely going to take that mantle. But then Hannes Grossman dropped To Where the Light Retreats, earlier this summer, and THAT album was […]
Tags: 2021, Erik T, Ophidian I, Review, Season of Mist, Technical Death Metal
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › C on Thursday, July 15th, 2021
Austin Texas’s Cathexis return with their second full length effort Untethered Abyss. I have been spinning this album for the last few months and my first impressions of them were a black death band with influences like Immolation and Ulcerate. They are a bit more varied in terms of groove and riff variety. The Title […]
Tags: 2021, Death Metal, Nick K, Review, Technical Death Metal, Willowtip Records
Posted in Frontpage Feature, Reviews, Reviews › P on Monday, June 21st, 2021
I was fortunate to review the first 4 Pestilence albums when they were reissued through Hammerheart Records, as well as the last Pestilence album – Hadeon, which was also released on Hammerheart Records. I went into this review as objective as I could possibly get. I say this because I love all the Pestilence albums […]
Tags: 2021, Agonia Records, Frank Rini, Pestilence, Review, Technical Death Metal
Posted in Frontpage Feature, Reviews, Reviews › G on Monday, June 7th, 2021
Hannes Grossman is a busy dude. The talented drummer extraordinaire has had his fingers in many pies over the years, earning great respect and admiration with his work in bands including, Necrophagist, Obscura, Alkaloid, Blotted Science and Gomorrah amongst many others. Along the way Grossman has also established a solid solo career, showcasing his songwriting […]
Tags: 2021, Hannes Grossman, Luke Saunders, Obscura, Review, Self-Released, Technical Death Metal
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › I on Thursday, June 3rd, 2021
I have to admit I’m a little bored of brutal death metal. Especially the stuff Comatose puts out on the regular basis; gurgle, squeal, rape, cunt, gore, blast etc. I mean I don’t dislike it, there is a time and a place for it, but the last album they released that remotely stuck with me […]
Tags: 2021, Brutal Death Metal, Comatose Music, Erik T, In Asymmetry, Review, Technical Death Metal
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › D on Thursday, May 13th, 2021
Remember the movie rule of 2? (i.e Armageddon vs Deep Impact) that so often applies in music? So I recently discovered two US symphonically laced, shreddy, tech death/deathcore/metalcore/melodic death metal /The Artisan Era core bands and the same time. First is Tempe, Arizona’s Dead World Reclamation, and their second album, Aura of Iniquity, and second, […]
Tags: 2021, Dead World Reclamation, Review, Self-Released, Symphonic Metal, Technical Death Metal
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › U on Thursday, April 1st, 2021
If you’re into metal, you probably don’t expect to hear anything groundbreaking very often. Sometimes, bands try new things and fall flat. Sometimes it sounds like they just input strange instruments or passages just because they want, not because it serves the song. This happens often in the attempt to be “different.” On the other […]
Tags: 2021, J Mays, Melodic Death Metal, Review, Self-Released, Technical Death Metal, Unflesh
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › S on Tuesday, March 16th, 2021
Talk about a match made in heaven…….Switzerland’s Stortregn, a formerly pure 90s melodic black metal band turned more technical, surgical, shredding death metal with some of their black metal remnants left behind, on The Artisan Era, arguably the flagship label for this style with bands like Inferi, Demon King, Enfold Darkness and such. I’ve reviewed […]
Tags: 2021, Black Metal, Erik T, Review, Stortregn, Technical Death Metal, The Artisan Era
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › E on Friday, March 5th, 2021
[A meeting at the Extreme Metal Research & Development Labs, Level 5, The Moon] “Krallice goes Disgorge (US)”…………. “That’s it?” “That’s the pitch.” “Isn’t that just Gorguts? They share a member” “…No… Gentlemen, women, and non-human friends present, if you’ll fit your VR headsets on, I’ll explain this incredible breakthrough in today’s presentation. Gorguts recent […]
Tags: 2021, Edenic Past, Lifeless Chasm, Mars Budziszewski, P2Loggia, Review, Sentient Ruin, Technical Death Metal
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › A on Wednesday, March 3rd, 2021
Abiotic have had an odd trajectory. They released an honestly bland debut in 2012, then a good follow up in 2015. While a little half-baked, it seemed like a step in the right direction, and made me think the only way to go for them was up. Then, silence. Enter 2021 and their new album, […]
Tags: 2021, Abiotic, J Mays, Review, Technical Death Metal, The Artisan Era
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › M on Thursday, February 25th, 2021
Here’s some tech death from the best heavy metal label in existence, Transcending Obscurity. If you don’t believe my words, you can always check my year end list where I mentioned this. Once again, though, that’s in my words, so if you don’t believe it here, you won’t there. Anyway… Here’s some new tech death […]
Tags: 2021, Brutal Death Metal, J Mays, Marasmus, Review, Technical Death Metal, Transcending Obscurity Records
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › M on Tuesday, February 9th, 2021
Someone really wants to be on The Artisan Era. I mean, look at that logo, cover and the music fits the label perfectly being a shreddy melodic form of polished, surgical, blackened, technical death metal that’s in line with the likes of Inferi and such. At that someone is Ric Galvez, who plays all the […]
Tags: 2021, Erik T, Malice Divine, Melodic Black Metal, Self-Released, Technical Death Metal
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › O on Thursday, February 4th, 2021
Jeeeezus! San Francisco California’s Ominous Ruin debut album is here and it’s a hell of a first effort. If it is conceivable to think of a heavier Spawn of Possession or Archspire these guys might very well be in that mix. “Ritual” kicks off this forty-six-minute clinic in riff fury and intensity. Guitarist Alex Bacey […]
Tags: 2021, Brutal Death Metal, Nick K, Ominous Ruin, Review, Technical Death Metal, Willowtip Records
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › F on Tuesday, January 26th, 2021
Several months ago Everlasting Spew Records posted about the new Fractal Generator album Macrocosmos and posted a brand new song. I had never heard the band before and after checking out the song immediately got their 2015 self-released debut, the outstanding Apotheosynthesis. I was blown away by this Canadian brutal band as they combine death […]
Tags: 2021, Brutal Death Metal, Everlasting Spew Records, Fractal Generator, Frank Rini, Technical Death Metal
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › P on Tuesday, December 8th, 2020
Long running German death metal act Profanity return with their fourth album – Fragments of Solace, which is 7 songs in 41 minutes guaranteed to rip your head off, slam it against the concrete then shove it through the Earth’s core exploding it in the process. I have seen the band logo for years, but […]
Tags: 2020, Frank Rini, Profanity, Review, Self-Released, Technical Death Metal
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › A on Friday, November 13th, 2020
Atrae Bilis is promoted as technical death metal. Canadian technical death metal, to be specific. I didn’t know this, or at least had never thought about it before, but with that genre tag, they’re in great company. Gorguts, Cryptopsy, and more recently, Archspire fit that bill. As just mentioned, great company, even if I don’t […]
Tags: 2020, Atrae Bilis, J Mays, Review, Technical Death Metal, Transcending Obscurity Records
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › I on Monday, October 19th, 2020
2020 continues to throw forearm smashes in my eardrums in the form of awesome Death Metal. I have been following Incinerate since they started in 1998 which is around the same time that I started my first band Pentagoria. I had met vocalist Jesse Watson at Milwaukee Metal fest that year and was excited to […]
Tags: 2020, Brutal Death Metal, Comatose Music, Incinerate, Nick K, Review, Technical Death Metal
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › I on Friday, October 16th, 2020
In the before times, earlier this year, I made it out to two shows. One of those was the Shadow of Intent tour which featured Signs of the Swarm, Brand of Sacrifice, and today’s review subject, Inferi. It was the first date of that tour at a really bad ass venue to which I had […]
Tags: 2020, Inferi, J Mays, Review, Symphonic Metal, Technical Death Metal, The Artisan Era
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › S on Thursday, October 8th, 2020
Around three years ago I reviewed this amazing progressive technical death metal band from Amsterdam. I was absolutely floored by their debut album Esoteric Entity. The band’s second album, Neoconception is a concept album revolving around an asteroid hitting earth. “Downfall” opens things up and the madness begins. If you are not familiar with Spectrum […]
Tags: 2020, Nick K, Review, Spectrum of Delusion, Technical Death Metal, The Artisan Era
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › C on Friday, October 2nd, 2020
Holy Smokes! I was fortunate to review Cult of Lilith’s debut EP Arkanum back in around 2015. Back then Cult of Lilith was still trying to find their sound and were a bit more tech-death oriented. Fast forward to 2020 and we have their first debut full-length album Mara. Hailing from Rejavik Iceland there are […]
Tags: 2020, Cult of Lilith, Melodic Death Metal, Metal Blade Records, Nick K, Review, Technical Death Metal
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › A on Thursday, September 17th, 2020
Well this definitely on my list for most improved tech death bands of 2020. Kansas City Missouri’s Ahtme return with their 2nd full length album Mephitic. I must admit I was a bit ho-hum regarding their 2018 debut Sewerborn. It beyond clear that the sound of the group has matured a bit and the song […]
Tags: 2020, Ahtme, Nick K, Review, Technical Death Metal, Unique Leader Records