International brutal tech blackened/deathcore/death metal band Phasma, returns with their 3rd album – Purgatory. With six songs, the band goes the simple route. They name each tune with a Roman numeral. The first song starts with some growls, beatdown deathcore, then right into a terrific blast beat. The above explanation of the various genres the […]
Evolution is a necessity in the natural world. For any species to continue life, it has to continually reinvent itself, and since humans are the ultimate evolution, this includes Death Metal bands as well. See how I weaved that to be an introduction? Effortlessly. Anyway, today has brought me a promo for an album I’ve […]
After 4 albums on FDA Records, Germany’s Autopsy Worshipping duo, Slaughterday (an Autopsy song title for the newbies), has jumped to Testimony Records for album number 5, but that’s the only thing that has changed. While 2022s Tyrants of Doom added a cleaner, clearer sound and some other old school death metal dynamics to the […]
I’m going to be brutally honest, I’ve never listened to Party Cannon until now. Send any hate mail to the circular filing cabinet; I’m not kidding, though. This is my first time listening to these guys from always sunny Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland. Do I like it? Yes, it is weird as fuck and extremely in-fucking-sane. […]
I quite enjoyed 2021’s Land of Darkness from this Greek (now relocated to Scotland) solo artist (‘Soulreaper’), but for some reason I missed 2024’s Echoes of Primordial Gnosis. So I thought I’d better get to this, his fifth album, before he drops another one. Now, I did listen to Echoes of Primordial Gnosis to be able to […]
I was all set to cover Distorted Reflection and their first album, Doom Rules Eternally, back in 2024, and then life happened, and I missed my window of opportunity. Since I don’t want that to happen again and also since Doom Zone is a pretty killer album, I’m jumping on it now. Living somewhere between […]
The last time we covered Poland’s Banisher was 2016’s Oniric Delusions, and it wasn’t me covering it. But considering I like Polish technical death metal, really, really liked Dormant Ordeal‘s Tooth and Nail from last year, AND saw the band has members that are or have been in/helped out the likes of some Polish heavy hitters […]
California’s long-running death grind outfit Exhumed returns with Red Asphalt, their ninth full-length album of original songs. I left out some of their covers/retrospective albums. The band has remained intact since 2018, and with Matt Harvey (vox/guitars), leading the charge, his band of goremongers- Ross Sewage (vox/bass), Mike Hamilton (drums), and Sebastian Phillips (guitars) return […]
After 2024s Hunger album, one of the best in the blackened deathcore genre of that year, there was a considerable shake-up in the Worm Shepherd camp, who were already functioning in a reduced capacity as a duo and some guests. Stop me if you’ve heard this before, but original vocalist Duane Duarte was let go […]
Have you ever wondered how a combination of metalcore, Slipknot, and the nu metal stylings of Taproot would sound while recorded in a garbage can? Me neither. No disrespect to either of those bands (I have seen Taproot a few times and would again), but some musical stylings don’t work well and at times sound […]
There used to be a restaurant chain here in the States called Steak and Ale. They served traditional American food, a staple of the menu being meat and potatoes. No, this isn’t a review for A La Carte, it’s for Rogga Johansson and his main band Paganizer; I say ‘main’ because dude has a few […]
I can’t say I’m too versed in the Austrian Sludge/Doom scene, but the internet tells me that Axis Mundi is the third album from this Austrian trio, who are not in any other projects. Either way, I’m kinda digging this. Occasionally, I need a break from deathcore and symphonic black metal, and a couple of […]
Giorgio’s Everlasting Spew Records has a bunch of quality death metal acts on its roster. A few years ago, Brazil’s Fossilization came into fruition and since then have released an EP, in 2021, He Whose Name Was Long Forgotten, and their debut album, in 2023, Leprous Daylight. There have been some line-up shifts since the […]
Okay, so think about your favorite Dimmu Borgir album- for me it’s Enthrone Darkness Triumphant; okay, now think of your favorite Cradle of Filth record- mine is Dusk and Her Embrace. The Great Elven War, however, is the best album neither of those bands ever made. This is an album that could’ve come out between […]
Watch NEVERMORE’s Documentary HERE! Legendary heavy metal powerhouse NEVERMORE have signed with Reigning Phoenix Music. The band also welcomes to the line-up Jack Cattoi on guitar, Semir Özerkan on bass, and new vocalist Berzan Önen. To showcase the new lineup, NEVERMORE’s first live appearance will take place on April 1st, 2026, in Istanbul, Turkey. On this […]
There’s rarely anything more satisfying than hearing a band come fully into its own – whose work you’ve enjoyed and admired for years, but for one reason or another, it seemed never quite put all the pieces together in the right order to make it a complete, fully-realized project. Of course, any band or artist’s […]
Some bands are subtle in their chosen influences; some wear their influences on their sleeves. Australian trio Graves For Gods, have their influences carved into their fucking chest and mope around topless for the whole world to see. Their influence? The Peaville doom trinity: My Dying Bride, Paradise Lost, and Anathema– of course, classic/versions of […]
Void Monuments hail from Russia, and after a brief hiatus, a few years back, reformed in 2024 and released the Temples of Pestilence demo. Armed with their debut album, Posthumous Imprecation, they are ready to take things to the next level. The band is listed as a blackened death metal band, but honestly, I don’t […]
Though they have been pretty heavy on the deathcore of late (Lorna Shore, Mental Cruelty, Signs of the Swarm, Distant, Ov Sulphur, Vomit Forth, etc.), Century Media still has actually also done a pretty good job of finding some excellent death metal on their roster, too. There is, of course, Sanguisugabogg, but also Blood Incantation, Frozen […]
Coscradh is old Irish for ‘massacre’, ‘triumph in slaughter’. How is that for an opening?! The band hails from Ireland, and Carving the Causeway to the Otherworld is their brand new slab of dark, vicious death metal. Their 2022 debut album, Nahanagan Stadial, was quite a scorcher; the band has bested it with this terrific […]
I’m not familiar with Hungary’s Symphonic/Epic/Gothic Melodic death metal troupe Meteora, but I’m always up for some symphonic stuff, and I do have a soft spot for the classic ‘beauty and the beast’ dual female vocal styled stuff (Nightwish, Epica, Leaves Eyes, Tristania, Love History, Thalarion, Draconian, etc). With 4 albums under their belt, you’d […]
2025 was quite the year for metalcore, with many stalwarts such as Bleeding Through, Employed to Serve, and Killswitch Engage releasing new albums. This gateway sub-genre never goes away, but to say that it can become stale is an understatement. 2026 could very well be a banner year again if my inbox full of metalcore […]
Guess what? It’s officially 2026! Yay, right? Whether you like it or not, time is marching on, and whining about it won’t make it stop… just thinking of the new music to be released this year gives me a small bit of hope for the future. Sunday morning finds me jamming the new album from […]
So, like Sigh’s I Saw the World End-Hangman’s Hymn MMXXV, here is another favorite album of mine from the 2000’s, this time it’s Rotting Christ‘s Aealo from 2010, getting a whole new recording and release. I never covered the original here, as I covered it for a different webzine at the time, but it made […]
17 friggin’ albums. More hits than misses in the Megadeth discography. Megadeth is the final album by Dave Mustaine, the sole remaining original member. Throughout his career, he’s rarely had a consistent line-up, and I liken him to Chuck Schuldiner (RIP) from Death. With the ever-changing live and full-time musicians. However, both individuals knew how […]