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Posted in Reviews, Reviews › F on Thursday, August 16th, 2018
First and foremost, I would like to give Sevared Records’ Barret Amiss II, a big thanks and shout out for hooking me up, at this year’s Maryland Deathfest, with a copy of Flesh Consumed‘s new album, Hymn for the Leeches. Being that it has been eight years since their previous album (apparently, problems with label […]
Tags: 2018, Flesh Consumed, Kristofor Allred, Review, Sevared Records
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › B on Thursday, July 19th, 2018
Wowwee! Chicago’s own Beyond Deth may have just brilliantly answered a question none of us ever gave a shit to ask. Though after listening to the bands’s debut release, The Age of Darkness, maybe it’s a question that should have been posed long ago. That question? “What would a thrashing death metal band sound like […]
Tags: 2018, Beyond Deth, Kristofor Allred, Review, Self-Released
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › M on Friday, July 6th, 2018
I don’t really know what it is about Austin, Texas’ Morgengrau and their sophomore album, Blood Oracle, but something just doesn’t quite resonate with me. All the components for a kick-ass listen are there and the performances are all quite solid to say the least and honestly, while the album is spinning I seem to […]
Tags: Morgengrau, Unspeakable Axe Records
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › C on Monday, May 21st, 2018
Back in 1999 Sweden’s, The Crown carved a much loved niche in my heart with their debut, Hell is Here (yes, I know that the band had two previous full-lengths under the Crown of Thorns moniker). Extreme metal was in a little bit of a weird state, with lots of genre transitioning seemingly taking place […]
Tags: 2018, Kristofor Allred, Metal Blade Records, Review, The Crown
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › S on Tuesday, May 15th, 2018
Maybe it’s a bit premature, considering I am writing this review in what is still the first quarter of 2018, but for the time being, I am putting money on the U.K.’s Slugdge‘s new album, Esoteric Malacology, to be the album of the year for many a metalhead; or a contender for the title at […]
Tags: 2018, Kristofor Allred, Review, Slugdge, Willowtip Records
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › G on Wednesday, May 9th, 2018
To say I was pleased as Punch when I saw the new album, The Lupine Anathema and other Bloodcurdling Tales of Horror and the Macabre, from The Grotesquery in the review queue, here at Teeth of the Divine, is more than just an understatement. Considering the fact that the band had seemed to call it […]
Tags: 2018, Death Metal, Kristofor Allred, Review, The Grotesquery, Xtreem Music
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › N on Wednesday, April 4th, 2018
Forgive me if you will, for as much as I like to use band comparisons for the ease and convenience of conveyance, I don’t want to be that guy who constantly mentions one band while reviewing another…but I’m gonna be that guy who constantly mentions one band while reviewing another. Though in the case of […]
Tags: 2018, Death Metal, Kristofor Allred, Neoceasar, Review, Xtreem Music
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › F on Thursday, March 1st, 2018
“Hailing from Melbourne, Australia, Faceless Burial are a power trio of unimaginable death metal might. Theirs is an unremittingly dark and dexterous sound which draws in a variety of death metal traditions: the gooey grind of early ’90s Finland, the spiraling surge of classic Tampa, the bazooka-blown fury of old Brazil, the atonal angularity ushered […]
Tags: 2018, Blood Harvest Records, Death Metal, Faceless Burial, Iron Lung Records, Kristofor Allred, Review
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › B on Thursday, February 22nd, 2018
The question of whether you really need to check out Boia, and their debut EP, Chivalry of Death, is simply this: “How much do you bleed for Altars of Madness?” Now don’t get me wrong, any self-respecting metalhead has at least one copy of the seminal debut from Morbid Angel in their collection, but that […]
Tags: 2018, Boia, Calligari Records, Death Metal, Kristofor Allred
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › R on Wednesday, February 14th, 2018
I would imagine that the members of River of Souls have been called many things within their life and career, though I highly doubt that the term “slackers” has ever been one of them. Having just released their debut full-length, The Well of Urd, upon listeners just a mere few months ago, the band have […]
Tags: 2018, Kristofor Allred, Review, River of Souls, Self-Released
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › L on Thursday, January 11th, 2018
What do you get when you cross the most successful and popular NWOBHM band, Iron Maiden, the (slightly) darker thrash of King Diamond and even Iced Earth, the swagger of Motorhead, and the headstrong dominance of Manowar, with ass kicking XX chromosomes of mighty frontwoman power? Lady Beast, you get Lady Beast my friends. Wait… […]
Tags: 2017, Cruz Del Sur Music, Heavy Metal, Kristofor Allred, Lady Beast, Review
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › M on Thursday, January 4th, 2018
I’ve got to hand it to New Jersey’s Mortum, from the little snippet of material that I had heard from them before I signed up to review their new album, Eheieh Chaos, I wasn’t too impressed. The music wasn’t bad per se but it wasn’t anything new or more than just a little intriguing; yet […]
Tags: 2017, Black Metal, Kristofor Allred, Mortum, Review, Self-Released
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › S on Thursday, December 21st, 2017
Technical death metal. There’s generally two type of people when regarding the sub-genre. Those that don’t like it, considering it nothing more than a noodly-broodly fretboard wankfest that’s more show than substance, and well, those that do. I happen to fall in the latter category and think that tech-death is some stellar shit. Honestly, I’d […]
Tags: 2017, Kristofor Allred, Review, Self-Released, Spectrum of Delusion
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › D on Wednesday, November 1st, 2017
What do H. G. Wells, Doctor Who, Emmett Lathrop Brown, Bill S. Preston, Esquire, Ted “Theodore” Logan, and Chile’s Demoniac, and their debut full-length album, Intemperance, all have in common? Time travel of course, you silly gooses. In fact, Intemperance may be the closet thing any of us actually get to achieving time travel here […]
Tags: 2017, Demoniac, Kristofor Allred, Review, Witches Brew
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › R on Friday, October 20th, 2017
I’m not sure what it was that made me choose to cover The Netherlands’ based act, River of Souls, and their debut album, The Well of Urd. Maybe it was divine intervention from the metal gods themselves. Whatever it was that drove me toward the band, I am glad it did, as River of Souls […]
Tags: 2017, Kristofor Allred, Review, River of Souls, Self-Released
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › T on Friday, September 22nd, 2017
Feel the crushing groove…FEEL IT! I think I may have gotten a tad bit obsessed with Detroit, Michigan’s Temple of Void. At the very least, I feel the onset of becoming a huge fan of the group taking hold. Seriously, a mere four weeks is what separates the first time I stumbled across Temple of […]
Tags: 2017, Kristofor Allred, Review, Shadow Kingdom Records, Temple of Void
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › S on Thursday, August 31st, 2017
I have no idea when the Old School Swedish Death retro movement really got started. With Bloodbath maybe? I do know that it has been running strong for awhile now, but honestly, I never really cared about the retro movement as long as my favorite original Swedeath stalwarts, Dismember, were still (skinned) alive and kicking. […]
Tags: 2017, Hells Headbangers, Kristofor Allred, Review, Skelethal
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › H on Thursday, August 24th, 2017
I’m curious. How many metalheads, when asked the question, “What attracts you to heavy metal music?”, would answer with a simple and sound, “Fun”. Yet in reality, isn’t that the brass tax of it all? If the love we have for metal wasn’t, in the long run, “fun”, would we indulge in it? Maybe it’s […]
Tags: 2017, Hells Headbangers, Horrific, Kristofor Allred, Review
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › P on Friday, August 11th, 2017
Chances are, if you’re a “brutal death metal” fan, that you are well familiar with California’s Pathology. Hell, if you’re just a half-assed metal fan you’ve probably heard of the band at the very least. The group has released nine albums, new album included, in eleven years of solid brutal death metal. Some albums a […]
Tags: 2017, Comatose Music, Kristofor Allred, Pathology, Review
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › S on Tuesday, June 27th, 2017
“Have Mercy”…and I don’t mean “have mercy” like that faux rocker Uncle Jessie’s cheesy catch phrase from that horribly great sit-com I watched as a kid in the late ’80’s. I mean “have mercy”, as in the new Sacrificial Slaughter EP, Generation of Terror , is going to rip your ears a new asshole (yeah, […]
Tags: 2017, Horror Pain Gore Death Productions, Kristofor Allred, Review, Sacrificial Slaughter
Posted in Frontpage Feature, Reviews, Reviews › I on Monday, June 19th, 2017
I’ve been an Iced Earth fan for awhile now. Twenty years exactly, at the time of this review, as it was the band’s compilation/re-worked/best of album, Days of Purgatory, that introduced me to their take on thrash, power, and traditional metal. At the time I thought of myself as a latecomer, as the band had […]
Tags: 2017, Century Media Records, Iced Earth, Kristofor Allred, Review
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › D on Friday, May 19th, 2017
Lets be honest. There is simply too much metal out there nowadays for a fan to stay on top of it all. Thirty years ago? No problem. Twenty years ago? Difficult, but still do-able. Today? Fuhgeddaboudit… Even the most devout of metal collectors (which most us are) will find it nigh impossible to stay afloat […]
Tags: 2017, Dreaming Dead, Hammerheart Records, Kristofor Allred, Review
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › H on Thursday, May 4th, 2017
Holy gargantuan balls of steel, Batman! This is some straight up good shit right here. I really was not sure what to expect from Holycide and their debut full-length, Annihilate… Then Ask!. Truth be told, I was basically looking for something other than death metal for reviewing purposes and didn’t anticipate such a blistering and […]
Tags: 2017, Holycide, Kristofor Allred, Review, Xtreem Music
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › S on Tuesday, April 25th, 2017
First things first; hats off to Spectral Descent for being able to pique my interest in such a way that I damn near couldn’t wait to hear their debut album, Descending the Astral Plane. You see friends, like many of you, I love death metal. Love it! Luckily, I was a present and accounted for […]
Tags: 2017, Horror Pain Gore Death Productions, Kristofor Allred, Review, Spectral Descent
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › C on Thursday, April 20th, 2017
Truth be told, the review you are reading almost didn’t come to fruition. Not because I am a lazy procrastinator, (even though I am a lazy procrastinator) but because I could never seem to make it through the first track of The Committee‘s second full-length album, Memorandum Occultus, before I was just bored to tears […]
Tags: 2017, Folter Records, Kristofor Allred, Review, The Committee