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 […]
Louisiana’s wrathful extreme music scene gets another notch on its termite-gnawed bedpost with this debut album from Pale Misery. This musically dank, fetid trio rams the spiked gauntlets of black metal down the throat of crust-addled punk all across Black Candles and Gutter Scum’s sickening six tracks. Goatwhore this is not as precision, tightly-bolted song […]
Sometimes as a reviewer social networking helps. A YouTube link from a record label might pop across your timeline and give you the choice to listen to or not. Thus was the case with Atlanta’s Paladin and their video for their tune, “Shoot for the Sun”. First off, the riffing is so over the top […]
I’m a little overdue on this one and frankly I didn’t really feel like chiming in with a review on Pig Destroyer’s latest platter of pain until some of the usual hype that comes with their releases died down. They’re pretty much a love it or hate it proposition for most people at this point […]
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 […]
Long Island’s Pyrexia return with their 5th long player and with a host of new cast members how can CEO, Owner, Manager, Founding member, guitarist, Chris Basile keep it together, you ask? Well the bastid does and I’ve known Mr. Basile for quite a long time, but he is a riff machine. Let’s bring in […]
The debut EP from Milwaukee’s Prezir , Contempt, was a solid black/death metal assault, but I’d expect no less from a project that includes Rory Heikkila from Shroud of Despondency on guitar ,vocalist Luka Đorđević from epic Tolkien death metal act Khazaddum, and has since added Milwaukee scene veteran Jerry Hauppa from Concentric, Northless and Ara on bass. And on the band’s full length debut, […]
Hang on, let me grab my Comastose Music and Italian brutal death metal review template and paste in here…. [Insert brutal album name here] is the debut album from [insert band name here], hailing from [Italy], featuring current and former members of [insert other brutal death bands from Italy here] and deliver exactly what you’d […]
The first two albums from Belgian/UK act Pantheist (2002 O Solitude and 2005s Amartia), are in my opinion, two of the finest examples of funeral doom of the two decades. However, with 2009s Journey Through lands Unknown, founder Kostas Panagiotou took the band’s sound away from the immense ‘church doom’ tones into more experimental and progressive […]
As is common for the musically addicted I was perusing Bandcamp’s metal feed for something new and fitting to play before driving off. Scrolling along I made a stopping glance at the Pyre cover. After swiping down the feed a few more times I felt compelled to go back to it. Like any of us […]
About muthaeffin’ time Brazil’s Psychic Possessor’s 1988 debut, Toxin Diffusion, was finally released on cd. Thank you to original label Cogumelo and Marquee Records for finally getting this done. In the 1980’s I fell in love with the Brazilian metal scene. I used to trade vinyl with Brazilian pen pals I would find in ‘zines. […]
This sure was a little ditty of a surprise. Never heard of The Psalm, a death metal act, hailing from Greece. This ep, I, was originally released a few years ago and thankfully Repulsive Echo Records have reissued and added some extra tracks. “A Mass For The Bereaved” starts out with a weird beginning, which […]
Album number 9 from Ireland’s favorite sons see the band stick doggedly to the now perfected cragged, epic metal but also sees the band become a more tempered, somber act that results in an album that continues the band’s legacy, but seems to have a strange air of exasperation and despondency to it that I […]
Album number 2 from Norwegian, classic doom trio Purple Hill Witch does everything a sophomore album follow-up should do. Their LP debut, a monstrously grooved Self-Titled on stalwart label The Church Within was an ode to the first 6 Sabbaths, the glory days of Hellhound Records (and Maryland doom in general) with a touch of […]
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 […]
Hailing from the D.C. area, Pain Tank is a fucking unhinged bunch that rip through 13 tracks of fucking furious doom-laden, noise-blasted hardcore n’ crusty, punk grind that calls to mind Enemy Soil, Man is the Bastard, Employer/Employee, early Pig Destroyer, Skitsystem, Phobia, Inhale/Exhale era Nasum, Napalm Death and lots of other neurotic, repulsive influences. […]
I’m not familiar with Portugal’s Process of Guilt, but considering the country’s quality output this recently (Goldepyre, Grog, Primal Attack, The Ominous Circle, Switchtense) I thought I’d see how the country’s post rock/sludge genre was doing, and based on a review at this very site of the band’s last album, 2012’s , FÆMIN , my curiosity was peaked. […]
Give it up for Hammerheart partnering with Patrick Mameli to bring you the first set of Pestilence reissues. Each paragraph will focus on each of these reissues, my thoughts and the impact each had on the scene. My second Pestilence reissue review package will be in the new year encompassing Testimony of the Ancients and […]
Though a Milwaukee super group of sorts, featuring current and ex members of new black metal act Prezir (who I highly recommend) , gloomy hardcore act Protestant and crust mongers Enabler, Pig’s Blood would have you believe they come from South America, by way of Pete Helmkamp’s (Angelcorpse) fever dreams with a debut album of bestial, snarling, barbaric black/death […]
After hanging out with David Mikkelsen, from Undergang, during their recent US tour, he mentioned he was also in Phrenelith, from Denmark and their debut album, Desolate Endscape was out on Dark Descent Records, but that the music was different than Undergang. Obviously on Dark Descent Records, for me is going to be an immediate […]
I’ve been following California’s Parasitic Ejaculation since 2012 with their Sickening Conduct ep, dropping on the scene to a little buzz. 5 years later and the band have just dropped Isolation, their third full-length onto our laps. If you’re new to the Parasitic Ejaculation party and unsure of their sound, well brutal slam death metal […]
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 […]
“A priest who had an affair with a 12 or 15 year old girl brought to one of their encounters, a consecrated host, and he touched her vagina and he said ‘this is how God loves you” and then he raped her”. And so that creepy quote begins the debut EP from Milwaukee’s Prezir (Serb-Croatian for […]
You’re going to want to cover your mouth and nose before entering the area. 7 of ‘em. Needles and the usual paraphernalia scattered around. Definitely a junkie den. All in more or less the same state of decomposure. Ironically, not from the heroin. No, an outbreak of flesh eating bacterial staff infection. ‘Cept for one […]
The suddenly very productive and quality laden Portuguese metal scene (Goldenpyre, Prayers of Sanity, An Ominous Circle, Switchtense, Primal Attack), has kicked out a dose of old school death metal with the debut from Pestifer, a no frills Deicide, Altars of Madness era Morbid Angel influenced band. There’s not much else to say really, Execration Diatribes […]