Posts Tagged ‘2024’
Posted in News on Saturday, June 22nd, 2024
UK epic doom pagans SOLSTICE are setting their signatures under a multi-album deal with Prophecy Productions on this longest day of the year on the northern half of the globe.SOLSTICE will release their fourth album via the label and have already been confirmed for this year’s edition of Prophecy Fest. SOLSTICE comment: “We are heartened and honoured to be working with Prophecy – a label whose discernible courage […]
Tags: 2024, News, Prophecy Productions, Solstice
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › T on Friday, June 21st, 2024
I originally started this off with a silly intro, but it’s not fitting. This is serious, bone-shaking death metal, and everyone should pay attention. Not that Tzompantli needed to improve, but they sure as shit did. On their second album, Beating the Drums of Ancestral Force, these gentlemen have knocked it out of the park […]
Tags: 20 Buck Spin, 2024, Death/Doom Metal, J Mays, Review, Tzompantli
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › A on Thursday, June 20th, 2024
Bordeaux France’s Ad Patres returns with the third full-length Unbreathable. I reviewed their last record A Brief Introduction to Human Experiments back in 2019. Ad Patres brings an excellent combination of technicality, musicianship, and brutality. There is no shortage of any of these items with this record. Things get kicked off with an eighty-second intro […]
Tags: 2024, Ad Patres, Death Metal, Nick K, Non Serviam Records, Review
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › W on Wednesday, June 19th, 2024
WyndRider is a young upcoming stoner doom metal act from Tennessee. In their short existence since 2022 they have released their self-titled debut last year and now Revival. I’ve recently been in communication with Chloe Gould, their singer, and have been mightily impressed with her vocals, after receiving this promo to review. I was so […]
Tags: 2024, Doom Metal, Electric Valley Records, Frank Rini, Heavy Metal, Review, WyndRider
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › U on Tuesday, June 18th, 2024
1990; Fuck I’m old. In Death Metal history, however, it’s like I’m still in my twenties and it was DEATH METAL. Bands were releasing albums left and right, Napalm Death, Morbid Angel; the Earache label alone was like a goddamn factory with its roster of bands. Not to be left out were these dudes from […]
Tags: 2024, Darkness Shall Rise Productions, Death Metal, Jeremy Beck, Review, Unleashed
Posted in Frontpage Feature, Reviews, Reviews › U on Monday, June 17th, 2024
From the 2007 tech death debut, Of Fracture and Failure, New Zealand’s Ulcerate has been one of the death metal’s most consistently elite bands with 5 albums since. The band has evolved from the pure tech death of the debut into a murky, dissonant, almost black death band (they are on Debemor Morti – a […]
Tags: 2024, Black/Death Metal, Debemur Morti Productions, Erik T, Review, Technical Death Metal, Ulcerate
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › A on Friday, June 14th, 2024
SOOO I am a huge Thrash Metal fan. In the 80’s while I was trying to find the hardest and heaviest music possible one of the scenes, which for me, has always been on par with the American Thrash Metal scene, was Germany. The main staples of Kreator, Sodom and Destruction were crushing it. However […]
Tags: 2024, Assassin, Frank Rini, High Roller Records, Review, thrash metal
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › N on Friday, June 14th, 2024
Devourer of All is the second album from Belgian black metal band Nyrak, (I could not find who or what a ‘Nyrak‘ is) a new band to me, but based on this excellent second effort they will be a regular band in my playlist and a band with a bright future. Playing a blend of […]
Tags: 2024, Atmospheric Black Metal, Erik T, Nyrak, Phoenix Mortis Productions, Review, Symphonic Black Metal
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › S on Thursday, June 13th, 2024
Many of the bands I review on this site, I randomly encountered. That’s the case for Tennesse’s Summoner’s Circle. In my “why the fuck not,” era just last year, I saw a festival of which I had not heard in my state called Toledo Death Fest. Despite the hot sun, they were a stylistic sore […]
Tags: 2024, Black Lion Records, J Mays, Review, Summoner’s Circle, Symphonic Black Metal
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › K on Wednesday, June 12th, 2024
Finland. When I think of Finland I tend to think of the recent film Sisu. It’s about this gold miner who finds the mother load in a vein of gold. Long story short, some Nazis are killed in fantastically thrilling ways. While I was listening to this debut album from Kratti Matka Kohti Kosmista, I […]
Tags: 2024, Black Metal, Jeremy Beck, Kratti, Review, Signal Rex
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › S on Tuesday, June 11th, 2024
Thanks to this YouTube group, I spent much of 2023 discovering newer symphonic black metal, or at least releases in the genre that aren’t from the golden age, or releases that somehow I completely missed from 2010 on. I found superb bands like Spain’s Ensom, Canada’s Obscuris Romancia, Russia’s Skylord, Cuba’s Mephisto, Finland’s Shade Empire, […]
Tags: 2024, Erik T, Fetzner Death Records, Review, Suffering Souls, Symphonic Black Metal
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › V on Monday, June 10th, 2024
I am new to the Vale of Pnath fan club. I’ve seen the logo over a number of years, however, I never heard them up until now. This Colorado technical death metal act has been around since 2006 with 2 prior ep’s and 2 prior full lengths to boot. After hearing Between the Worlds of […]
Tags: 2024, Frank Rini, Review, Technical Death Metal, Vale, vale of Pnath, Willowtip Records
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › I on Friday, June 7th, 2024
I don’t know about the rest of ya’ll, but summer sure took its sweet ass time showing up ’round these parts. Yeah, it’s June now, and a lot of this country has been caught in the grips of an absolutely hellacious heat wave (sorry), but back when I had originally started listening to this release […]
Tags: 2024, Doom/Death Metal, Ischemic, Review, Self-Released, Steve K
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › T on Thursday, June 6th, 2024
“Fuck every fucking cop that’s ever fucking lived.” I want to start with those words, which are repeated many times in “No Reform (New Age Slave Patrol)” the fourth track from Terminal Nation‘s second album, Echoes of the Devil’s Den, to simply let you know the message, and to turn back now if offended. For […]
Tags: 20 Buck Spin, 2024, Death Metal, J Mays, Review, Terminal Nation
Posted in News on Wednesday, June 5th, 2024
XASTHUR release new single ‘Selling Yourself to Die’ taken from forthcoming new album “Disharmonic Variations” XASTHUR ‘Selling Yourself to Die’ taken from the album “Disharmonic Variations” https://youtu.be/iaCb9b2CHlI XASTHUR comment: “Giving too much of yourself, or whatever you have, and receiving very little in return”, mastermind Scott Conner writes. “It means not being able to live any kind of […]
Tags: 2024, News, Xasthur
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › U on Wednesday, June 5th, 2024
The last Christian metal record I covered was Voluntary Mortification‘s Suffer to Rise back in 2020, which also happened to be Rottweiler Records, which is fast becoming the premier label for extreme Christian Music with bands like A Hill to Die Upon, Death Requisite, xDOULOSx, Krig, Desolate Tomb, Symphony of Heaven and such, much like […]
Tags: (Un)Worthy, 2024, Christian, Deathcore, Erik T, Review, Rottweiler Records
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › S on Tuesday, June 4th, 2024
25 years is a long time. Hell, over 25 years is a long time, and I’ve realized that a lot of the bands I love are coming up on that side of their longevity, which isn’t much next to the Rolling fucking Stones and we all know they’ve been doing it since the Triassic period […]
Tags: 2024, Death Metal, Jeremy Beck, Review, Seasons of Mist, Severe Torture
Posted in Frontpage Feature, Reviews, Reviews › N on Monday, June 3rd, 2024
When founding Nocturnus member, drummer/vocalist Mike Browning, resurrected the Nocturnus spirit, by adding the AD at the end I was very intrigued. I was a huge fan of Nocturnus, their first 2 albums and saw them on the Grindcrusher tour, in support with of their debut The Key, with Napalm Death, Godflesh, and Confessor on […]
Tags: 2024, Nocturnus AD, Profound Lore Records, Progressive Death Metal, Review
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › D on Friday, May 31st, 2024
Mining-obsessed German duo Dauþuz (‘Death’) has been on my radar for a while now. I initially heard them on their third album, Monvmentvm in 2019, and then in 2021, they crept onto my year-end list with Vom schwarzen Schmied. I wondered how they would, like other specifically themed bands (i.e. Alestorm) how they would continue […]
Tags: 2024, Amor Fati, Amor Fati Productions, Atmospheric Black Metal, Dauþuz, Erik T, Review
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › F on Friday, May 31st, 2024
What do you think of when you hear the word fluids? Soda? Water? Urine, semen, blood? With the band Fluids you know what you’re about to get… the absolute shit beaten out of your eardrums. Songs about the slimey and worm ridden carcass of this decaying planet and the human shit that inhabit it. Reduced […]
Tags: 2024, Death Metal, Fluids, Hells Headbangers, Jeremy Beck, Review
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › H on Thursday, May 30th, 2024
The Headless Ghost is a new Italian band and is also now signed to an Italian label, the excellent Punishment 18 Records. The Headless Ghost originally started out a few short years ago more as a tribute act to Mercyful Fate/King Diamond. And as you can see from this kick ass album art, the King […]
Tags: 2024, Frank Rini, Heavy Metal, Punishment 18 Records, Review, The Headless Ghost
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › M on Tuesday, May 28th, 2024
I grabbed the promo for this release because A) it was on Antiq Records, home of the finest medieval black metal, and B) the band moniker reminded me of French folk metal act Boisson Divine, whose La Halha I reviewed back in 2020, and rather enjoyed. Well, lo and behold Moisson Livide (‘Angry/Livid Harvest’) is […]
Tags: 2024, Antiq Records, Black Metal, Erik T, Folk Metal, Moisson Livide, Reveiw
Posted in Frontpage Feature, Reviews, Reviews › C on Monday, May 27th, 2024
I have thoroughly enjoyed New Jersey’s Cognitive rise through the underground ranks since their first EP in 2012 – The Horrid Swarm. I became friends with guitarist Rob Wharton, reviewed several of their early releases, finally met him on one of his tours years ago and he saw me touring with Internal Bleeding, as well […]
Tags: 2024, Cognitive, Frank Rini, Metal Blade Records, Review, Technical Death Metal
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › D on Friday, May 24th, 2024
I don’t hear a lot about bands from Iceland. Sure, there’s Solstafir, and I’m positive many others, but they don’t come to mind. Duft is one such band, so add them. The country of origin is notable, but it’s not as if we have a new Solstafir. They’re entirely different. However, you should be paying […]
Tags: 2024, Duft, J Mays, Metalcore, Review, Scarlet Records
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › A on Friday, May 24th, 2024
US Progressive Black Metallers Amiensus return with their fourth full-length record Reclamation: Part 1. The album gets kicked off with “Blink of the Moment” which right off the bat I am impressed with the production values. The clean vocals of James Benson and Kelsey Roe are outstanding. I dig the bass break played by Todd […]
Tags: 2024, Amiensus, Black/Progressive Metal, M-Theory Audio, Nick K, Review