Posts Tagged ‘Technical Death Metal’
Posted in Frontpage Feature, Reviews, Reviews › A on Monday, March 4th, 2019
For those of you who have heard the new Fallujah track, and, like me, wasn’t that impressed, here is an alternative for you in the sophomore album from Bay Area act Aenimus. With 11 tracks based on iconic horror stories (The Shining, IT, The Deadzone, Hannibal, etc) and a host of guests including Eddie Hermida (All Shall […]
Tags: 2019, Aenimus, E.Thomas, Nuclear Blast Records, Progressive Death Metal, Review, Technical Death Metal
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › A on Friday, March 1st, 2019
France has to be one of my favorite European countries for Technical Death Metal. I feel like every year there is at least a half dozen bands from there releasing unbelievably catchy records. 2019 is no exception with Ad Patres Sophomore release A Brief Introduction to Human Experiments. These French sickos play a bit of […]
Tags: 2019, Ad Patres, Nick K, Review, Technical Death Metal, Xenocorp, XenoKorp
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › P on Tuesday, January 15th, 2019
To me, the career path of Australia’s Psycroptic has somewhat mirrored Poland’s Decapitated: 7 albums in, early career highlighted by a couple of critically acclaimed technical death metal albums, then both had a divisive vocalist change with Psycroptic moving to the Jason Pepiatt and Decapitated moving from Sauron to Cowan then a slight style shift into less tech death metal realms. Those familiar […]
Tags: 2019, E.Thomas, Prosthetic Records, Psycroptic, Review, Technical Death Metal
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › B on Wednesday, December 19th, 2018
Montreal progressive Technical Death Wizards Beyond Creation return with their third full length record Algorythm. The album opens up with a symphonic orchestration piece which is so similar to many that I almost wonder if it is even necessary. “Entre Suffrage Et Mirage” is strong enough track on its own. The musicianship of the string […]
Tags: 2018, Beyond Creation, Nick K, Review, Season of Mist, Technical Death Metal
Posted in Frontpage Feature, Reviews, Reviews › G on Sunday, December 2nd, 2018
A staple and standout in the tech death metal scene since 2005s Neurotripsicks, France’s Gorod have delivered 5 albums of superb technical, yet playful and catchy death metal. And I’ll admit that I was a little concerned about the band switching to their own label, Overpowered Records, for album number 6, as this might indicate […]
Tags: 2018, E.Thomas, Gorod, Overpowered Records, Review, Technical Death Metal
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › A on Friday, May 11th, 2018
I’ve been a fan of Patrick Loisel since his Kralizec days ( I highly recommend you track down 1999s Origin) and Augury has certainly continued that legacy. And while not very prolific, when Augury does drop and album, the world takes note. 2004s Concealed and 2009s Fragmentary Evidence both are critically acclaimed and arguable classics […]
Tags: 2018, Augury, E.Thomas, Review, Technical Death Metal, The Artisan Era
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › M on Tuesday, March 27th, 2018
So two major label, modern tech death metal bands are going to be vying for your attention this spring. On Metal Blade we have Rivers of Nihil and their ambitiously evolved Where Owls Know My Name, on Prosthetic Records, we have Orlando’s ‘philosophical’ (not all of the band members are Christian), progressive death metal new comers, […]
Tags: 2018, E.Thomas, Monotheist, Prosthetic Records, Review, Technical Death Metal
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › A on Friday, February 23rd, 2018
Sacramento’s Alterbeast are bringing in the New Year with their 2nd full length release Feast. I really have to hand it to Unique Leader they waste absolutely zero time transitioning from year to year and continue to find outstanding groups with outstanding musicianship. With that being said opening up an album with a piano instrumental […]
Tags: 2018, Alterbeast, Nick K, Review, Technical Death Metal, Unique Leader Records
Posted in Frontpage Feature, Reviews, Reviews › P on Monday, February 19th, 2018
This past year has surely been a busy year for Mr. Patrick Mameli, singer and guitarist for Pestilence. Their first four albums were remastered and reissued in deluxe formats and I reviewed all four of them here. Perfect reissues! Patrick has assembled a brand new Pestilence line-up: Calin Paraschiv on lead guitar, Tilen Hudrap on […]
Tags: 2017, Death Metal, Frank Rini, Hammerheart Records, Pestilence, Review, Technical Death Metal
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › X on Thursday, February 1st, 2018
Well, this certainly was an awesome recommendation. New Haven Connecticut’s Xenosis have literally blown me away with their third full length album, Devour and Birth. The opening track “Night Hag’ mixes progressive elements from bands like later era Death, with the melody and harmonies of a band like Spawn of Possession or Beyond Creation. I […]
Tags: 2018, Nick K, Review, Self-Released, Technical Death Metal, Xenosis
Posted in Frontpage Feature, Reviews, Reviews › M on Monday, October 24th, 2016
Nine years is a mere nanosecond compared to the endless expanse of space and time, but that’s how long it has been since Mithras’ last full album, Behind the Shadows Lie Madness. That was my #1 album for 2007, and it still gets frequent play (its album cover also still gets regular desktop background honors), as there […]
Tags: 2016, Jordan Itkowitz, Mithras, Review, Technical Death Metal, Willowtip Records
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › J on Monday, December 8th, 2014
Never judge a book by its cover. Or in this case, don’t write off a band simply because they have a goofy name and used to be a scenester deathcore act. ‘Cause holy hell, this cowboy has learned some new tricks at the rodeo. Granted, that’s because the band that catapulted to MySpace stardom and a Metal […]
Tags: 2014, Job For A Cowboy, Jordan Itkowitz, Metal Blade Records, Review, Technical Death Metal
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › F on Monday, September 3rd, 2012
It’s been four years since the release of The Faceless’ ambitious last album, Planetary Duality. That’s plenty of time for some kind of musical or sonic metamorphosis (and plenty of band member change-ups as well), and on their new concept album Autotheism, the band truly spreads its mutant wings. I was impressed with Akeldama, their […]
Tags: 2012, Jordan Itkowitz, Review, Sumerian Records, Technical Death Metal, The Faceless