Posts Tagged ‘2020’
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › W on Friday, January 15th, 2021
Sweden’s Wombbath have been very busy since their 2014 reformation. I initially thought it would be just to record 1 album but no as the band has recorded a full 3 full lengths as well as this, I guess you can call fourth full length however this is more of a fun walk down memory lane. 2020 […]
Tags: 2020, Death Metal, Frank Rini, Review, Transcending Obscurity Records, Wombbath
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › C on Wednesday, January 13th, 2021
Ever since I can remember being really cognizant of technology’s stranglehold on modern society, I’ve known deep in my heart that it would one day kill me. Don’t worry, I’m not delusional enough to think I’m some kind of visionary on that philosophy. Science fiction has been trying to warn us of the perils of […]
Tags: 2020, Children of Technology, Hells Headbangers, Review, Speed/ Thrash Metal, Steve K
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › P on Tuesday, January 12th, 2021
Pnuema Hagion (Greek for Holy Spirit) is a duo ‘R’ on all instruments and vocals and Shane Elwell on drums) from Texas that have been around a while in acts like Amateur Podiatry, Covered in Flies, Endless Disease, Excantation, Flesh Consumed, Intestinal Disgorge, Liquid Viscera and others. they have a pretty good number of demos, […]
Tags: 2020, Death Metal, Erik T, Nuclear War Now! Productions, Pnuema Hagion
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › H on Monday, January 11th, 2021
As if Transcending Obscurity Records didn’t already kill it with phenomenal releases in 2020, we now get the sophomore effort from Heads For the Dead who are made up of: Ralf Hauber on vocals, Ed Warby on drums and Jonny Pettersson on all other instruments. The band’s 2018 debut Serpent’s Curse flew past me in […]
Tags: 2020, Death/Doom Metal, Frank Rini, Heads For the Dead, Review, Transcending Obscurity Records
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › M on Friday, January 8th, 2021
Greece’s Misanthropy Apotheosis released their debut album, Black Death Euphoria, in 2018. I have perused it, but need to go back and spend some more time with it. It’s pretty brutal and well-played death metal. It was self-released and really went unnoticed. Since I love all obscure bands I was very happy when Repulsive Echo […]
Tags: 2020, Death Metal, Frank Rini, Misanthropy Apotheosis, Repulsive Echo Records, Review
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › G on Thursday, January 7th, 2021
Listen, hear me out. 2020 was bullshit. I KNOW! Wild claim. One that certainly hasn’t been used to frame the context of endless metal album reviews. No sir. This is Grade-A original material here! So, why do I bring the 2020 thing up THIS time? Well, for a while there, it seemed like maybe, JUST […]
Tags: 2020, Metal, Prosthetic Records, Steve K, thrash metal
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › P on Wednesday, January 6th, 2021
Wisconsin based, metal collaboration (Shroud of Despondency‘s Rory Heikkila, Khazaddum’s Luka Đorđević and Enabler’s Brian Serzynski), Prezir (Serb-Croatian for ‘contempt’) is back with album number 2 after dropping a vicious little ep in 2017 and a solid full length debut on 2018 and the now trio, appears to really have further honed in on a […]
Tags: 2020, Black Metal, Erik T, Prezir, Review, Self-Released
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › P on Tuesday, January 5th, 2021
There are a lot of hard-working guys (and girls) in metal (it’s not like one band pays the bills… or 10 for that matter). I submit to you Adam Clemans as one of them. He does vocals for more bands than I can remember off the top of my head: Skeletonwitch, Wolvhammer, Noose Rot, Shaidar […]
Tags: 2020, Death/Doom Metal, J Mays, Pulchra Morte, Review, Transcending Records
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › F on Monday, January 4th, 2021
Ever wonder what it would sound like if you mixed Disgorge with Malignancy? Germany’s Focal Dystonia is absolutely melting my brain and may be answer to my own question. Featuring guitarist Floor Van Kujik (Korpse) and drummer Florent Duployer. This one would have completely missed my radar had a not just randomly took a chance […]
Tags: 2020, Brutal Death Metal, Comatose Music, Focal Dystonia, Nick K, Review
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › T on Monday, January 4th, 2021
Thætas is fairly new to the death metal scene and other than a demo and a split, released their debut album Shrines to Absurdity on the awesome Maggot Stomp record label several months back. What got me real hyped about this album and band is the fact they hail from my home state New York, […]
Tags: 2020, Death Metal, Frank Rini, Maggot Stomp, Thætas
Posted in Blog, Frontpage Feature on Monday, January 4th, 2021
Unless you’re Odell Beckham, you’re probably upset that 2020 took a shit on the world’s collective chest. No disrespect if you’re into that kind of thing, but for the rest of us, it is less than desirable. A worldwide pandemic, while it is definitely inspirational for metal musicians the world over, only inspired depression and despair amongst most of us. For us here at Teeth of the Divine, , this is where metal comes in.
Nothing beats headbanging the doom and gloom out of oneself with some, well, doom and gloom. Every year is a banner year for metal. If you’re one who opines that there’s no good metal released anymore, you’re not looking hard enough. You should stop squinting and put on your glasses, four eyes.
Lucky for you, we’ve done a lot of the dirty work for you. Gaze upon the glorious superiority and unmatched wisdom of our clearly definitive lists and remember that no one loves you in this world… except us… and metal.
Tags: 2020, Staff Picks
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › S on Wednesday, December 23rd, 2020
Some three years have elapsed since we last heard from rising Italian crew Shores of Null. Following a confident, hook-laden debut in 2014’s Quiescence, the band’s 2017 follow-up, Black Drapes for Tomorrow, while solid, struggled to capitalise on their impressive first act. Nevertheless, Shores of Null possess an intriguing sound, a brooding mix of melancholic […]
Tags: 2020, Melodic Black Metal, Review, Shores of Null, Spikerot Records
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › B on Wednesday, December 23rd, 2020
2020 has been an unbelievable year for the new wave of Traditional Heavy Metal, with the last quarter of the year especially being a veritable battleground of bands vying to solidify their place on everyone’s year-end list. Wytch Hazel, Spirit Adrift, Megaton Sword, and of course Eternal (FUCKING) Champion have all landed monstrous haymakers that […]
Tags: 2020, Black Soul Horde, Heavy Metal, Review, Self-Released, Steve K
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › S on Tuesday, December 22nd, 2020
I’m always up for some 90s styled Symphonic black metal, and Sweden’s Svartghast is up to the task with their solid, if by the numbers debut, Perdition. Not surprising when you consider one half of the duo is G. Johansson/Choronzon who has served in the likes of Setherial, Impious, and Torchbearer. The formula is pretty simple […]
Tags: 2020, Dusktone, Erik T, Review, Svartghast, Symphonic Black Metal
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › R on Tuesday, December 22nd, 2020
So one of my new friends contacts is Håkan Stuvemark who is in Consumption, Henry Kane, Wombbath just to name a few bands. He’s quite a guitarist and songwriter and Rex Demonus is yet another project – a melodic black metal band. The debut album Damnatio is 9 songs in 47 minutes of really kick ass black metal. Starting […]
Tags: 2020, Black/Death Metal, Frank Rini, Hecatombe Records, Review, Rex Demonus
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › W on Monday, December 21st, 2020
I like tradition in my metal, just like everything else. In my shaving (dry shave only), my food (well done steak with ketchup only, please), and of course sex (missionary only-no eye contact ever, for reproduction purposes only). While none of that’s true, it’s also not true when it comes to my metal. However, I […]
Tags: 2020, Cruz Del Sur Music, Heavy Metal, J Mays, Review, White Magician
Posted in Frontpage Feature, Reviews, Reviews › A on Monday, December 21st, 2020
Poland’s Azarath return with their 7th full length album, Saint Desecration. Founded by Inferno, drummer of the mighty Behemoth. Azarath play a fun style of black death similar to the likes of Krisiun, Immolation, and also country mates Hate. Things open up with “Death, At Will” which starts with a nice clean guitar part before […]
Tags: 2020, Agonia Records, Azarath, Death Metal, Nick K, Review
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › F on Friday, December 18th, 2020
Like a dildo to the face when entering a Christian bookstore, last year’s The Grand Descent took me by surprise. I happened to pick it up on a whim, expecting something much different than what that cover art would suggest. I’m glad I did… and I’m glad they have a new release this year. Unfortunately […]
Tags: 2020, Death Metal, Fuming Mouth, J Mays, Nuclear Blast Records, Review
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › T on Friday, December 18th, 2020
The Rise of Heresy ep has been released by three different labels. Blood Blast Distro for the cd in October, then Metalized Distro with the cd and a patch and now Repulsive Echo Records for the cassette. Since Kostas Vaxevanos, Repulsive Echo Records owner, is a friend of mine amd is now putting the release […]
Tags: 2020, Frank Rini, Review, The Troops of Doom, thrash metal
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › W on Thursday, December 17th, 2020
At face value, Finland’s Worthless play Swedish styled death metal. They have HM 2 sounding guitars (though not overbearing), gruff, rough vocals and cantankerous, galloping riffs. But if you take a deeper dive (and take into account the band moniker and album title) in the band’s second full length, you get a little more nuanced […]
Tags: 2020, Death Metal, Erik T, Review, Self-Released, Swedish, Worthless
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › D on Thursday, December 17th, 2020
I have not heard Germany’s Dehuman Reign since I reviewed their debut EP, Destructive Intent, back in 2013. They released an album Ascending From Below back in 2016, but based on album number 3, not much has changed since the EP, as this is stout American death metal for fans of Cannibal Corpse, Monstrosity and […]
Tags: 2020, Death Metal, Dehuman Reign, Erik T, FDA Records, Review
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › P on Wednesday, December 16th, 2020
Finland’s new act Proscription’s debut album Conduit is some pretty evil and heavy music. I am a big fan of guitarist/vocalist Christbutcher’s Excommunion as well as his past band – Maveth who were incredible. I interviewed Christbutcher for allabouttherock.uk some years ago when Maveth were active, since he was born and raised in America and […]
Tags: 2020, Dark Descent Records, Death Metal, Frank Rini, Proscription, Review
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › M on Wednesday, December 16th, 2020
Here’s the deal. As I write to you, I’m fucking stressed. Aside from some of the normal holiday season bullshit, I’m also currently facing a reality where, due to a whole goddamn mess of circumstances, there’s a very strong chance I’m going to be working out of my car every other week for the foreseeable […]
Tags: 2020, Heavy Metal, NWOTHM, Review, Steve K, Traditional Heavy Metal
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › S on Monday, December 14th, 2020
Chalk up another winner from the Cruz del Sur Music record label. Witch Hazel was a band from 2007-2020, but now a new band has been formed called SpellBook. Hailing from Pennsylvania Spellbook play an earlier form of Heavy Metal mixed in with NWOBHM and some slight power metal elements. Think: Blue Oyster Cult/early Maiden/Priest/Rainbow/Angelwitch […]
Tags: 2020, Cruz Del Sur Music, Frank Rini, Heavy Metal, Review, Spellbook
Posted in Frontpage Feature, Reviews, Reviews › H on Monday, December 14th, 2020
Listen, I fully understand the hate for Hatebreed. Past their influential debut, they have been responsible for popularizing ‘hardcore’ and making it more commercial, and putting it in malls and on MTV. But there is no denying their chest-beating anthemic take on ‘bro-core’ has been the rallying cry for a generation and more than likely […]
Tags: 2020, Erik T, Hardcore, hatebreed, Nuclear Blast Records, Review