I’ve been a fan of Der Weg Einer Freiheit since their inception back in 2009. Born out of Würzburg, Bavaria, their self-titled debut took the world of Black Metal by storm in 2010. Since then, they’ve released five amazing albums filled with Black Metal venom. Each one surpasses the other in terms of raw emotion […]

NY Hardcore legends Biohazard have returned with their 10th studio album, Divided We Fall, with the original band back together, once again like their last album, in 2012 – Reborn in Defiance. Evan had left right after, but returned in 2014. So Billy Graziadei – vocals/guitar, Bobby Hambel – lead guitar, Danny Schuler – drums, […]

So I didn’t know this, but apparently Dripping Decay broke up? That didn’t last long, a literal handful of releases, including one full-length Festering Grotesqueries in 2023 and then an EP called Ripping Remains in 2024… now they’ve resurfaced as Ripping Remains. Go figure… band drama. Well, I don’t care about band drama. I care […]

Wow, just wow. I never know what to expect anymore when I dive into a new release. So when I decided to cover Tetragrammacide and their blistering EP Cyber-Tantric Paradigm of Radical Sri-Vidya (say that shit three times fast). Suffice to say, I’m blown the fuck away. This album is a complicated beast that needs […]

Imagine for a second that Enthrone Darkness Triumphant-era Dimmu Borgir or Old Man’s Child leaned a little more into Egyptian history, myths, and legends.  Then you would have Germany’s Maahes. Maahes is an ancient Egyptian lion-headed god of war, protection, and the weather, and Nechacha, their second album, is an Egyptian symbol of dominion held by pharaohs […]

My friend, Brian Ferrell, runs the record label, Ossuary Industries, outta Texas. If you are unfamiliar with the types of death metal bands he has, I would compare his label to Sevared Records and Comatose Music. So what does that mean?? Well, it’s the ultra-brutal sort of death metal that has one goal in mind. […]

Gjallarhorn’s Wrath is a Barcelona-based symphonic black metal act with members also residing in Poland and Canada, and was formed from the ashes of Oblivion, a short-lived Spanish black metal band from the early 00s. But the new project has a very clear, very obvious new influence and fan base they are going after, and […]

A new Revocation album has arrived, and while that’s exciting news for me, not so much for my brothers in writing for Teeth. The band is now approaching 20 years of activity and is at this point a stalwart of the tech/death/thrash sub-genre. Call it “progressive” if you’d like as well. For my money, which […]

Canada’s brutal knuckle-dragging slam death metal band NecroticGoreBeast returns with this 5-song ep, titled Brute. With three full lengths already under their belt, alongside their debut demo and split ep, the new ep should tide us all over until their next album. This year has been quite the year for ultra-brutal slam death metal with […]

The Devil’s Bridge is the second full-length from Belgian Black Metal Kvlt Lvthn after a handful of splits and demos, including an EP, The Spider Goddess (2017), and their Eradication of Nescience debut full-length from 2016. This is a genuinely good Black Metal album. Its direction is clear, each foot stuck solidly in the 1st […]

I don’t know what YOU expect from a project that consists of  Brian Kingsland (Nile, Enthean), bassist Alex Rush (Olkoth, Enthean), and drum legend Derek Roddy (ex-Hate Eternal, ex-Malevolent Creation, ex-Divine Empire, etc). But I know what I was expecting it to sound like, and it sounds exactly like that. Yeah, this debut is blistering blackened […]

I was trying to think of the perfect album to describe how my morning was going. I scrolled down and back up, looking at what I have, and I remembered that El Jefe had sent me the 20-minute reissued LP from these guys, them being Organ Dealer, and the album is Visceral Infection. This motherfucker […]

Paradise Lost needs no introduction. And unless you have lived under a rock for 30 years, you are bound to be aware of their vast history and legacy, transforming from a pure death doom band, being part of the UK 90s Doom trinity along with My Dying Bride and Anathema, to a Gothic metal act, […]

I recently covered a raw as fuck Black Metal album from Embers of Ouroboros, and now I have yet another incredibly raw, but better album than the Embers of Ouroboros. I’m talking about Blutsauger and their blistering debut full-length, Nocturnal Blood Tyrants. This album kept me company all day, it shredded my eardrums and froze […]

Shadows is an up-and-coming German blackened death thrash metal band, and outside of a demo from 2022, Miseria is their first official release. 9 songs in 48 minutes with a classically named song in the occult realm – “As Above so Below”. No fancy intro, just a robust organic production. There are some nods to […]

When I see ‘For Fans of Bal-Sagoth!’ in a promotional email, I’m usually pretty skeptical. Only a few bands have been able to honor/copy that unique sound: Hungary’s Runeshard, the Alestorm spinoff, Wizardthrone, and, of course, the UK’s Kull, but they have actual former Bal Sagoth members, so I’m not sure they count. However, the […]

Novembers Doom missed a significant opportunity to release Major Arcana in November, but we’re getting it in September instead. In my neck of the woods, it’s already starting to get cooler, so it’s just as well. If you didn’t know, it’s unlikely I will be unbiased in this review because the band is one of […]

I kinda feel like I’m getting punked here at this point. Listen, I’m not naive. I didn’t come into Borderlands thinking that, just because the Under the Red Cloud/Queen of Time/Halo trilogy of album was wrapped up, that this new Amorphis record was suddenly gonna sound VASTLY different. The band has more or less been sticking to their distinct formula […]

Back in 2023, an album was released that I absolutely loved. It was Khnvm’s Visions of a Plague Ridden Sky, and not only did I review it in these hallowed pages, it also made it onto my year-end list (shocker). Fast forward to 2025, and they are back with another bludgeoning album in the form […]

Visitant is a new Technical/Progressive Black Metal project formed by Voraath (RIP Joshua Ward) vocalist Chelsea Marrow, who you may know from her voice being used on The Doom Eternal and Senua: II Hellblade video games, as well as Anthony Lusk-Simone (drums/orchestration) from Abiotic, Kilian Duarte (bass) also from Abiotic and Scale the Summit, and […]

Barbarous is a new death metal band out of California. They released a two-song EP last year, Coup de Grâce, as a precursor to their debut album, and both those songs reappear on this album – Initium Mors. Eight songs in 29 minutes and all encapsulated in a fun album cover equipped with a neat […]

Listen, I strive to be as objective as possible when writing reviews, providing an unbiased opinion where I can to guide you, good reader, in the right direction and help you spend your hard-earned money wisely. But if you have read my reviews before, you know I am one: A huge fan of the blackened/symphonic […]

As I stated in my review of the excellent Obšar EP, I love receiving unsolicited, blind requests from obscure, completely unknown (to me) bands for us to review their material. So when I got an email from Moscow’s Renunciation, asking us to cover their second album, Make Babylon Great Again, I checked the band’s music […]

The promotional email for the sophomore effort from this Danish act (named after the Hebrew word for wanderer?) stated it was melodic black metal for ‘fans of Behemoth, Hate, Mgla, Belphegor, Anaal Nathrak’. Not sure I could have been lured in any harder if they had a six pack of IPA beer, Crunchie candy bars, […]

I learned a new word today, “effulgence,” as in Pain Effulgence, the new album from Innumerable Forms. All you nerds probably already knew that it’s at odds with the first word in the album title, as I don’t consider pain luminous or radiant. If it works for the band, it works for me, but their […]