Posts Tagged ‘Agonia Records’
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › H on Wednesday, April 26th, 2023
Look, I am, by my own admission, a long-winded individual. Especially so when talking about heavy metal, but with The Garden, the eighth full-length album from Finnish “Beauty &/vs the Beast” deathly doomsters, Hanging Garden, I simply don’t need to be. The straight up truth is that when it comes to The Garden, I’m just […]
Tags: 2023, Agonia Records, Doom Metal, Hanging Garden, Kristofor Allred, Review
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › O on Wednesday, June 22nd, 2022
Kansas’s technical death metal powerhouse Origin return with their eighth full length record Chaosmos. Paul Ryan, Mikey Torres, Jason Keyser, and John Longstreth waste zero time pummeling the listener with the opening track “Ecophagy.” The track starts off with a strong hook and then proceeded to get progressively more technical as the track goes on. […]
Tags: 2022, Agonia Records, Nick K, Nuclear Blast Records, Origin, Review, Technical Death Metal
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › A on Thursday, June 2nd, 2022
Portugal’s Analepsy return with their second full length album Quiescence. Having been five years since their last release it is quite immediate that the production values and song writing have both stepped and slammed up. Opening things up with “Locus of Dawning” the guitars fade in with some cool layering and harmony. I can hear […]
Tags: 2022, Agonia Records, Analepsy, Death Metal, Nick K, Review
Posted in Frontpage Feature, Reviews, Reviews › D on Monday, April 18th, 2022
The undisputed heirs to Dismember‘s throne (here’s hoping for a reunion after the 2022 Maryland Deathfest), Demonical is back with album number 7, and as expected, there are absolutely zero surprises or curveballs from a band that features former members of Centinex and Grave. They can pretty much do this in their sleep. Essentially delivering […]
Tags: 2022, Agonia Records, Death Metal, Demonical, Erik T, Review, Swedish Death Metal
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › H on Thursday, October 21st, 2021
Greece’s Hail Spirit Noir are one of the most original and weirdest bands out there. Really out of the box, non-linear type of music. I have enjoyed their different types of albums, and while they started out as some avant-garde black metal band and their musical influences continued to expand and morph into some Twilight […]
Tags: 2021, Agonia Records, Avant-Garde/Experimental, Black Metal, Hail Spirit Noir, Review
Posted in Frontpage Feature, Reviews, Reviews › P on Monday, June 21st, 2021
I was fortunate to review the first 4 Pestilence albums when they were reissued through Hammerheart Records, as well as the last Pestilence album – Hadeon, which was also released on Hammerheart Records. I went into this review as objective as I could possibly get. I say this because I love all the Pestilence albums […]
Tags: 2021, Agonia Records, Frank Rini, Pestilence, Review, Technical Death Metal
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 Frontpage Feature, Reviews, Reviews › D on Monday, November 9th, 2020
There are two veteran, bigger, supergroup -ish acts vying for this autumn’s top, high profile Swedish death metal release; the second effort from LIK (featuring Niklas Sundin of Katatonia) and the sixth album from Demonical, featuring current and former members of Centinex, Grave and others). And the clear winner is Demonical. I really enjoyed 2018s […]
Tags: 2020, Agonia Records, Death Metal, Demonical, Erik T, Review, Swedish
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › H on Wednesday, June 17th, 2020
All hail Hail Spirit Noir who hail from Greece. These gentlemen caught my ears and eyes when they released Oi Strigoi all the way back in the “before times” in 2014. I was, and remain a big fan of that album, so I was excited when they released Mayhem in Blue in 2016. While I […]
Tags: 2020, Agonia Records, Black Metal, Hail Spirit Noir, J Mays, Psychedelic, Review
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › F on Friday, May 22nd, 2020
Oh, Forgotten Tomb. I’ve never forgotten you. How could I, baby? You gave me 2015’s Hurt Yourself and the Ones You Love. I purchased it on a whim in a record store that sadly no longer exists simply because the cover grabbed my attention. When gazing at the cover, one could easily dismiss it, call […]
Tags: Agonia Records, Black/Doom Metal, Forgotten Tomb, J Mays, Review
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › I on Thursday, April 16th, 2020
In Mourning strike me as the type of band that know what they’re good at, and stick to that formula. Much like bands like The Black Dahlia Murder, or Cannibal Corpse, they’ve found their sound and don’t really ever deviate from it. This approach can be a double edged sword. While their newest album, 2019s […]
Tags: 2019, Agonia Records, Death/Doom Metal, In Mourning, Pat Hughes, Review
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › V on Tuesday, April 14th, 2020
I reviewed Baltimore’s brutal death metal band, Visceral Disgorge’s sophomore album, Slithering Evisceration, recently and stated how much I loved the album and how they are one of my favorite brutal death metal bands. I interviewed singer Travis Werner some years back and I was and still am a tremendous fan of their 2011 debut […]
Tags: 2020, Agonia Records, Brutal Death Metal, Frank Rini, Review, Visceral Disgorge
Posted in Frontpage Feature, Reviews, Reviews › V on Monday, January 27th, 2020
Baltimore’s brutal death metal band, Visceral Disgorge, burst onto the scene in 2011 with their scorching debut album-Ingesting Putridity. I was an instant believer and reviewed the album, gave it high marks and interviewed the singer Travis Werner. After meeting Travis at a local show and witnessing their brutal live performance we struck up […]
Tags: 2020, Agonia Records, Brutal Death Metal, Frank Rini, Review, Visceral Disgorge
Posted in Frontpage Feature, Reviews, Reviews › A on Monday, November 26th, 2018
When you deliver an debut album that arguably reinvigorated melodic death metal in 2004s A Celebration Guilt, expectations tend to pile on and pile up, and despite a Children of Bodom like trajectory, founder and brainchild James Malone has largely responded well with subsequent albums, maybe with the exception of 2010s more rock based Starve for the […]
Tags: 20018, Agonia Records, Arsis, E.Thomas, Melodic Death Metal, Review
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › C on Friday, August 10th, 2018
I’m always excited to see local metal bands from here in Missouri get some recognition or sign to a decent label. St Louis’s Cast the Stone were formed in 2002 and I crossed paths with bassist Derek Engemann at a few Sounds of the Underground/Summer Slaughter/Harkonin (another great St Louis act) shows in St Louis at […]
Tags: 2018, Agonia Records, Cast the Stone, E.Thomas, Review
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › D on Wednesday, May 16th, 2018
When Centinex split up in 2006 (but since got back together), members went on to form and help out with two intertwined acts, Interment and Demonical. Both have delivered solid efforts of Swedish death metal with Demonical having released 4 albums and Interment, two. Centinex and Demonical founder Martin Schulman has revamped the lineup since 2011s Death […]
Tags: 2018, Agonia Records, Demonical, E.Thomas, Review
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › A on Monday, January 1st, 2018
France’s Aosoth released one of the greatest black metal albums I ever heard in 2013-IV: An Arrow in Heart. It made my best of list and I interviewed them as well. Nice dudes, creating some dark and brutal music. There were a few death metal elements on the album and it was just fantastic. Fast […]
Tags: 2017, Agonia Records, Aosoth, Black Metal, Frank Rini, Review
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › A on Friday, May 12th, 2017
Poland’s Azarath return with their sixth studio album, In Extremis. Founded by Behemoth’s drummer Inferno, Azarath play a style of blackened death metal a kin to Krisiun, Behemoth, and maybe Diabolic to throw an American band in there. In Extremis opens up with “The Truimph of Ascending Majesty” which opens up with cackling whammy bar […]
Tags: 2017, Agonia Records, Azarath, Nick K, Review
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › I on Tuesday, July 19th, 2016
Swedes In Mourning have made a solid impression over the past five or six years. Their brand of melodic death has matured greatly in the past three albums that they’ve released, and with The Weight of Oceans (2012) the band were being lauded as possible heirs to Opeths death metal throne. Rightfully so, because Afterglow […]
Tags: 2016, Agonia Records, In Mourning, Review, Shane Wolfensberger
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › B on Tuesday, June 30th, 2015
I have always been a death metal fan, from the moment I first heard it all them years ago – the textures, the percussiveness, the shear brutality. But I have been very slow and finicky about black metal. I was never taken in by the undergrounder-than-thou shit, which I found to have the same amount […]
Tags: 2015, Agonia Records, Blaze of Perdition, Chris Sessions, Review
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › C on Tuesday, November 11th, 2014
Despite being around since 1991 and releasing 8 decent eight albums, Sweden’s Centinex were always sort of an after thought in the Swedish death metal scene of the early 90s, especially since after the first couple of albums the band sorted of cleaned up their sound to be more melodic and with a blacker sheen. The […]
Tags: 2014, Agonia Records, Centinex, E.Thomas, Review
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › S on Thursday, July 11th, 2013
“This should not be seen as a gathering of two humans playing music, for it doesn’t simply stand for “music” but a real Communication between an incarnated being and vibrations coming from a non-manifested paradigma where the Essence of what has suffered thousands of incarnations and names wanders eternally through the halls of it’s last […]
Tags: 2013, Agonia Records, Review, Spektr
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › A on Monday, May 6th, 2013
Continuing the harrowing black metal stylings of the landmark III, former Antaeus vocalist MkM has fulfilled the expectations of arguably one of 2012s most anticipated black metal releases. No ifs and or buts, Arrow in Heart is and will be one of the most striking and regally filthy black metal releases of the year and […]
Tags: 2013, Agonia Records, Aosoth, E.Thomas, Review
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › K on Thursday, February 14th, 2013
Kongh hit a bit of a sophomore slump on their last album. Enjoyable as Shadows of the Shapeless was, it was hurt by some monotonous riffing and a one dimensional atmosphere. Certainly nowhere close to bad, but it didn’t exactly have me craving a follow up. Now it’s four years on and a lot has […]
Tags: 2013, Agonia Records, Chuck Kucher, Review, Sludge
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › A on Wednesday, January 30th, 2013
There are a few misleading factors surrounding this album that left me feeling a little duped. First off, the colorful, painterly cover art looks like something you would see for sale on a coffee shop checkout counter (well, except for the figure’s bare breasts and tentacled pubes). Secondly, the label describes the music as a […]
Tags: 2012, Acrimonious, Adam Palm, Agonia Records, Review