So UK’s Venom have been around for a minute, eh?? If we are to look at the first three extreme bands using extreme lyrics, where devils, killing, and all things evil were first written about, the top three bands are: Black Sabbath, The Misfits, and Venom. I mean, with over 15 albums to their name, […]
Ohhhhh I thought I smelled something vile and putrid just now… Sniff…Sniff. Nope, not me, I took a shower today with my watering hose…Not my shoes….hmmmmm Oh it’s the new Cryptworm album – Infectious Pathological Waste. That’s what I smell….. These UK filthy death metal merchants released two prior albums and some EPs. Really quality […]
If you had told me in 1995 that down the road I would be reviewing the 19th album, Next to Die, from Six Feet Under, I would have said No Way!! I was very fortunate to have toured with them when I was in Internal Bleeding, with our first album Voracious Contempt, and Immolation was […]
Comatose Music keeps finding us more brutal slam death metal bands. This time it’s Engorgement, out of the UK, with their second album, They Rot Beneath Our Floor. It’s been a minute since the release of their debut, from 2012, Excruciating Intestinal Lacerations. That is a damn fine display of brutal slam death metal. Ricky […]
With only their second album under their belt now, Beyond the Reach of Enchantment, Iceland’s Power Paladin show the metal world why they are climbing the rungs of the power metal ladder. I reviewed their 2022 debut, With the Magic of Windfyre Steel, and was pretty blown away. I need my power metal fast and […]
Indonesia is dumping out some brutal bands left and right. For me, the leaders in this scene are Decaying Humanity. I reviewed their monstrous debut album last year, and now here is the debut album from Multiwomb. Much of the time, the Indonesian death metal albums are super short, and this follows the format, with […]
Believe it or not, still now and again, a debut album surprises me in a really good way. I’ve heard every style within every genre for decades, folks. Back in 2019, my longtime friend Matt Bishop was on one of my favorite debut brutal death metal albums, in a long time, Excruciating Extermination, from Horrific […]
Gore Machine, from Philadelphia, returns with album number two – Congealed and Foaming. The debut from two years ago, Macerated & Liquified, was a pretty good brutal death metal album. Just like that one, this is a one-man show with Druesome doing it all. The first album cover was fun and gruesome, however this album […]
I reviewed Immolation’s eleventh album Acts of God, four years ago and here we are with album #12, Descent. This album is a little more streamlined, and this lineup has been intact for a decade so they are firing on all cylinders with Ross Dolan on bass/vox, Rob Vigna and Alex Bouks on guitar and […]
Well, honk my hooter, this debut album from brand new tech/dm band Delirious Compulsion knocked my slippers right off my pathetic feet. The band is made up of individuals from the United Kingdom / United States / Czechia / Switzerland. My brother Dakota Rivera provides the putrid vocals, and I was blown away to see […]
Triumpher is a pretty killer power metal band, hailing from Greece. With album and lyrical themes surrounding Greek mythology and fantasy, you know the music had better back it up. Their 2023 debut Storming the Walls was a scorcher, only to best it a year later with Spirit Invictus. Now album #3 drops – Piercing […]
So quite a bunch of things have been swirling around the Exodus camp over the last few years. First and foremost, Goliath is the long-time thrashers’ 13th album and first for new label Napalm Records. I am a huge Exodus fan and have reviewed their last several albums and have seen them live a bunch […]
When seeing the band name Axe Dragger…I wonder why they did not choose the name Axe Dagger??? Anyway, you must scream in your highest power metal voice.. AXE DRAGGGGGEEEERRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!! From their bio: American heavy metal supergroup Axe Dragger (featuring current and former members of Fu Manchu, Pantera, Dark Funeral, and Pentagram) team up with Metal […]
Norway’s Bizarrekult are back with their third album, Alt som finnes, with the band remaining intact with Adv on drums, Bizarre on guitars, bass, vox, D on vocals, and Ignat Pomazkov on guitars. I reviewed their sophomore effort in 2023, Den tapte krigen, and I really enjoyed their approach to black metal as well as […]
Long-running Floridian death metalers Monstrosity return with their seventh full-length album, Screams from Beneath the Surface. It’s been eight long years since they released their last album, The Passage of Existence, which was an amazing album, and I loved the artwork as well. The band has made some odd choices in album covers, such as […]
International brutal tech blackened/deathcore/death metal band Phasma, returns with their 3rd album – Purgatory. With six songs, the band goes the simple route. They name each tune with a Roman numeral. The first song starts with some growls, beatdown deathcore, then right into a terrific blast beat. The above explanation of the various genres the […]
California’s long-running death grind outfit Exhumed returns with Red Asphalt, their ninth full-length album of original songs. I left out some of their covers/retrospective albums. The band has remained intact since 2018, and with Matt Harvey (vox/guitars), leading the charge, his band of goremongers- Ross Sewage (vox/bass), Mike Hamilton (drums), and Sebastian Phillips (guitars) return […]
Giorgio’s Everlasting Spew Records has a bunch of quality death metal acts on its roster. A few years ago, Brazil’s Fossilization came into fruition and since then have released an EP, in 2021, He Whose Name Was Long Forgotten, and their debut album, in 2023, Leprous Daylight. There have been some line-up shifts since the […]
Void Monuments hail from Russia, and after a brief hiatus, a few years back, reformed in 2024 and released the Temples of Pestilence demo. Armed with their debut album, Posthumous Imprecation, they are ready to take things to the next level. The band is listed as a blackened death metal band, but honestly, I don’t […]
Coscradh is old Irish for ‘massacre’, ‘triumph in slaughter’. How is that for an opening?! The band hails from Ireland, and Carving the Causeway to the Otherworld is their brand new slab of dark, vicious death metal. Their 2022 debut album, Nahanagan Stadial, was quite a scorcher; the band has bested it with this terrific […]
17 friggin’ albums. More hits than misses in the Megadeth discography. Megadeth is the final album by Dave Mustaine, the sole remaining original member. Throughout his career, he’s rarely had a consistent line-up, and I liken him to Chuck Schuldiner (RIP) from Death. With the ever-changing live and full-time musicians. However, both individuals knew how […]
Stranguliatorius have taken me by surprise and were never previously on my radar. Hailing from the far reaches of Lithuania Flies Don’t Lie is their fourth album, and the band has been around since 2010. The band name almost had me thinking some ancient dinosaur from times past, and honesty I did not know what […]
Germany’s best thrash metal band, Kreator, return with their 16th full-length album, Krushers of the World. When we look at the Big 4, regardless of your thoughts, it is based on album sales and overall popularity relating to tours,etc.., and they are rightfully: Metallica, Slayer, Megadeth and Anthrax. When looking at what the second Big […]
If this EP had been released just a day later, it would be a 2026 release, too bad it was not delayed until a few days into 2026. TerrorVerse is a brand new technical brutal death metal band hailing from Houston, Texas, and this little ditty of an EP is exactly what the doctor ordered. […]
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