Lots of long overdue comeback albums this year: Possessed, Sacred Reich, Nocturnus and add Exhorder to that growing list too. Longtime original members from the first 2 classic albums Slaughter in the Vatican from 1990 and The Law in 1992, Kyle Thomas-vocals and Vinnie LaBella-guitar return to the fold to resurrect this once great, but […]
Spain’s Wormed, I can’t believe it, have already been around for 20 years. Holy crap how time flies. I would assume this little ditty of an ep, in the spherical form of Metaportal is a precursor to Wormed’s fourth full-length album. I have been a huge fan of the band and have met them on […]
Finland’s Desecresy return with their 6th album and second as a one man act after Jarno Nurmi, vocals, departed after the Stoic Death album. Tommi Grönqvist continues along playing all instruments and singing and Towards Nebulae continues with the depressive, atmospheric and bulldozer heaviness we have come to expect from this great act. Opening with “The Gate”, this is one of […]
Virginia’s blackened death metal band, Warthrone, return with their second album, and this follow-up to their debut: Venomassacre, showcases the band pummel the listener again and again and again. The band further stream lining their line-up with now Erik and his wife Kristel as the members. Erik plays drums, guitars and now is back to […]
Texas has quite a nice death metal scene. With Devourment, Kill Everything, and many others…but don’t forget about Prophecy. With Foreseen Scriptures as their 5th album, being newly released I would love to see them do some major touring, because this album destroys from beginning to end. You want pure brutal American blood-flowing death […]
Arizona Thrash veterans , Sacred Reich, return with their first full length since, Heal, from 1996. Awakening is their 5th full length and after reforming years ago the band has made it more than a reunion, because unlike a lot of bands reuniting Sacred Reich actually recorded a new album, rather than continuing to rest on their laurels and tour […]
Virginia’s Witch-Hunt were together for 10 years from 1992-2002 and played a very early form of death metal/thrash, which eventually went towards a black metal sound towards the last few years of their existence. This anthology collection compiles the majority of their songs throughout their releases, which are: Both 1993 demo’s Born Dead and Fearless, […]
New Yorks’ Immortal Suffering return with their second full-length album and a real nice follow-up to their long awaited debut in 2015, the awesome, yet very short Asylum. Since that record the newest member is Randall Reekstin on drums. The rest of the band staying intact with Joe Provvisiero and Leo Bakman on guitars, John […]
Chicago’s progressive-thrash metal/crossover band Aftermath return with the follow-up to their 1994 debut-Eyes of Tomorrow, with There is Something Wrong. Aftermath reformed in 2014 and this album has Charlie Tsiolis on vox, Steve Sacco on guitar, Ray Schmidt on drums and George Lagis on bass. So being away for so long and your second album […]
After a decade plus of lying dormant Portland Oregon’s death metal gore/grind band Lord Gore decided to sew the limbs, eyeballs and heads together and bring the band back from the grave. Lord Gore released 2 of the best gore grind death metal albums in the early 00’s. The Autophagous Orgy in 2002 and Resickened […]
Hailing from North Vancouver, Canada Angelmaker return with their third official release and this is their second full-length album-follow-up to their powerful 2015 Dissentient album. Once again independently released by the band this self-titled album sees the 6-piece deathcore act steamroll their deathcore competition. 14 songs in 49 minutes the band brings the quality and […]
Chug…chug… chug….blast…blast…blast…limbs are crushed…sinkholes erupt…lava explodes….ripped off heads…atomic blast…sky is torn…chest collapsing…atmosphere no more…planet dies……………….Yes, Devourment are back with their 5th album-Obscene Majesty, and their longest album yet at 47 minutes. They figured let us just bludgeon the listener more and more and if we do it longer than the beginning above part of this […]
Hailing from Russia, Atrophied have been around for several years and finally have released their debut album: Pendulum of Extremes. 7 songs in under a half hour, the band wastes little time with intros and gets right into a Suffocation type of blasting with “Relentless Flow”. The blasting actually reminds me of Suffo’s second album-Breeding […]
Ohio’s Embalmer are one of the longest running active death metal bands out there today. Like all death metal bands that have been around for 20+ years there have been line-up changes along the way. I’ve been an Embalmer fan since 1993 and have not looked back. Throughout the years they have put out 2 […]
Norway’s Darkthrone return with their 18th album and Old Star is ass-kicking from start to finish. First a few things. Outside of Bathory’s first 6 albums and the 2 Nordland albums, Darkthrone are my favorite black metal band of all time and this is coming from a person that only dabbles in the black metal genre and not full on into all the bands, as many know […]
It’s been 6 years since New Jersey’s Embludgeonment released their brutal debut album, Infinite Regress. Now after the wait their follow-up, Barn Burner sees its release on the excellent Comatose Music label. How about let’s bring in John Hartman from Mortal Decay to add that extra bit of brutal spice. BAM!!! 9 songs in 33 […]
If you don’t know about Possessed, than what the hell is wrong with you. They released the first death metal album, in 1985, called Seven Churches-a classic in its own right and followed it up with Beyond the Gates a year later and then The Eyes of Horror ep in 1987. After their debut they […]
The untimely and quite sad passing of Deceased’s drummer, Dave “Scarface” Castillo (RIP), last year, even before the Deceased–Ghostly White album was released really shook the band members and underground scene. I’ve met him briefly a few times, at live Deceased’s shows and he always was in a good mood. Founding member, King Fowley, has […]
A few years ago Vltimas formed and many did not feel this “supergroup” would ever record an album. The band consists of David Vincent of Morbid Angel fame on vocals, Flo Mounier from Cryptopsy blasting the crap out of the drums and Rune Eriksen, of Mayhem fame on guitars. Well Something Wicked Marches In is […]
Part II of my Destruction reissue review series focuses on Mad Butcher, Release from Agony and Cracked Brain. Part I contained Sentence of Death, Infernal Overkill and Eternal Devastation. In 1987, 1 year removed from their amazing second album, Eternal Devastation, Destruction graced us with the Mad Butcher ep. Years ago it was usually common for bands to release eps between full length albums and this ep marked an improvement in the production […]
Baltimore Maryland’s death/grind band Noisem return after a 4 year album hiatus to bring us Cease to Exist, their third and most devastating album to date. Several things have happened since their monstrous Blossoming Decay album from 2014. Sometimes fame too fast can have effects on a band. When Noisem’s debut Agony Defined came out […]
I had no idea Germany’s Destruction have been around since 1982-Christ Almighty. I’ve been a fan since their 1984 Sentence of Death ep. Guess I’ve lost track of time and I have not followed the band since the 1990 Cracked Brain album. So this is Part I of my Destruction reissue review series. Germany’s High […]
Misery Index return with their 6th full-length album, Rituals of Power and for me this is the best album, thus far for 2019. Holy Crap, Misery Index is on fire. As much as I liked their last album, The Killing Gods, Rituals of Power is more aggressive, upping their death/grind approach to the nth degree! […]
Malaysia’s Humiliation return with their 9th long player and singer, Bear Bee recently informed me they will be recording their 10th full-length album quite soon. By now you know what’s in store for you with Humiliation’s writing and musical direction. War-themed death metal lyrics with music heavily influenced by: Bolt Thrower/Hail of Bullets/Asphyx, Six Feet […]
One of the purveyors of the Canadian early death metal scene has always been Rimouski’s, Necrotic Mutation. I still have the Sepulchre of the Suffering on cassette, from 1993, when I was tape trading back in the day. Necrotic Mutation had more of an underground cult following and never really got their shit together to […]