Posts Tagged ‘Black/Death Metal’
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › T on Thursday, April 6th, 2023
Tribe of Pazuzu is a new international supergroup of sorts. Formed by bassist/vocalist Nick Sagias who was in Soulstorm and Overthrow back in the day as well as a quick stint in Pestilence in 1990. However, he is joined by some inarguably bigger names on this project’s debut, namely Flo Mournier of Cryptopsy fame on […]
Tags: 2023, Black/Death Metal, Erik T, Review, Tribe of Pazuzu, Vic Records
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › W on Tuesday, March 14th, 2023
I initially grabbed this promo strictly due to the striking cover photo (courtesy of Tatiana Lebedeva), literally not knowing anything about the band or album, other than that it mentioned depressive and one-man black metal in the promo blurb. So with the band’s moniker, album title, and song titles like “I Choose to Die”, No […]
Tags: 2023, Black/Death Metal, Death/Doom Metal, Erik T, Review, Tragedy Productions, Winds of Tragedy
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › F, Reviews › N on Friday, January 27th, 2023
New year, new reviews, right? That’s the name of this tune, anyway. December of 2022 had a lot of surprises, and this tight little cassette split was one of them. Seven tracks, the longest being Fluids’ “Heaven-Sent” (3:17) and the shortest being Nunslaughter’s “It’s You I Hate” (.31). Neither band needs an introduction, Nunslaughter has […]
Tags: 2023, Black/Death Metal, Fluids, Hells Headbangers, Jeremy Beck, Nunslaughter, Review
Posted in Frontpage Feature, Reviews, Reviews › G on Monday, October 17th, 2022
Music critics are idiots (myself included). Especially so when it comes to reviewing what can pass for a “big” release. Of course, this is metal, so that’s relatively speaking. If they say it’s the best thing since the blow job was invented, you can rest assured it sounds like pretty much everything else out there, […]
Tags: 2022, Black/Death Metal, Goatwhore, J Mays, Metal Blade Records, Review
Posted in Frontpage Feature, Reviews, Reviews › B on Monday, September 26th, 2022
Nergal, the controversial frontman for black/death mainstays Behemoth is basically that kid in school who everybody thinks is kind of aloof, doesn’t talk to anyone, and people somehow like. That is until he gets his license, drives by you in his new convertible his parents bought him with the top down, hair flowing, listening to […]
Tags: 2022, Behemoth, Black/Death Metal, J Mays, Metal Blade Records, Review
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › H on Wednesday, March 9th, 2022
Pros of the band Hath: Pretty much everything. Cons: They make me think of Hoth, which makes me think of Star Wars… and unlike many of my peers, I do not care for Star Wars. There. I said it. With all of that out of the way, here’s Hath’s heavily anticipated All That Was Promised. […]
Tags: 2022, Black/Death Metal, Hath, J Mays, Review, Willowtip Records
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › H on Wednesday, December 22nd, 2021
Canada’s one-man project Haiduk (a term for Balkan freedom fighters) came out of the gate like barnstormers back 2021 with Spellbook, a pretty blistering black/death/thrash combo that had a lot of energy and influences from Dew-Scented Hypocrisy and even Dissection. However, the follow-up, 2015s Demonicon, with an increasing mechanical/programmed tone (especially the drums), came across […]
Tags: 2021, Black/Death Metal, Erik T, Haiduk, Review, Self-Released
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › W on Thursday, August 19th, 2021
I’ve been anticipating this one. Why? Well, Wormwitch’s last one, Heaven that Dwells Within, seemed to be praised by everyone. While I dug what they were doing, I thought it could be greatly improved in a few significant ways. I wasn’t a fan of the production. While it wasn’t offensive, I felt it didn’t fit […]
Tags: 2021, Black/Death Metal, Crust, J Mays, Prosthetic Records, Review, Wormwitch
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › C on Wednesday, May 12th, 2021
In folklore/mythology, a cambion is the unholy offspring of a Succubus or Incubus and a human sexing it up. In this case, for this particular Cambion, the Succubus is The Netherlands’ Centurian (yes, I made Centurian the female sex-demon in this scenario) and that human vessel is Pete Helmkamp of Angelcorpse/Abhomine fame as this Texas […]
Tags: 2021, Black/Death Metal, Cambion, Erik T, Lavadome Productions, Review
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › T on Friday, April 23rd, 2021
Throne is a relatively new blackened death metal band (2017) from the depths of Michigan with members from other local acts like Winterus, Mourning Wolf and Inevitable Frost. But Throne is clearly the new prime focus of the members, and deservedly so, as it’s a blistering debut album of searing, militant and commanding black/death metal. […]
Tags: 2021, Black/Death Metal, Erik T, Redefining Darkness Records, Review, Throne
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › A on Wednesday, January 27th, 2021
With some promotional tag lines stating this was ‘Extreme Finnish Symphonic Metal’, I grabbed this promo right away as anything symphonic’ gets my attention, and I had never heard of this band before, so a new find in the genre is always a positive. And I’m glad I did, this is really good stuff. The […]
Tags: 2021, Abstrakt, Black/Death Metal, Erik T, Inverse Records, Review, Symphonic Black Metal
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › W on Thursday, January 21st, 2021
What a Time to Be Alive, indeed, Werewolves. If you missed last year’s The Dead Are Screaming from these guys, you’re a damned fool and no friend of mine. If you had told me before this promo dropped in my hands (figuratively, of course) that we would see another album from these Australians so soon, […]
Tags: 2021, Black/Death Metal, J Mays, Prosthetic Records, Review, Werewolves
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 › E on Tuesday, August 4th, 2020
Before starting this review, I was listening to/reviewing the reissue of Winter’s 1990 masterpiece Into Darkness. Whether directly or not, I can tell they had an impact on Lantern and their new album Dimensions. I bought into the hype of Lantern’s previously release, but it overall left me with a cold feeling. Not that cold, […]
Tags: 2020, Black/Death Metal, Dark Descent Records, J Mays, Lantern, Review
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › S on Wednesday, July 15th, 2020
Sarpa ( the Sanskrit term for serpent) is the Austin, Texas-based one-man black/death project from the mind of David Baxter, formerly of industrial thrashers Skrew). The aptly named album Solivagus (roughly translated from Latin to ‘wondering alone’) is his first effort, no demos, no singles, just right into this ambitious 7 song 48-minute affair that […]
Tags: 2020, Black/Death Metal, Erik T, Review, Sarpa, Self-Released
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › B on Friday, June 12th, 2020
Well, imagine my surprise when I was perusing the promos and found a new release from one of my most favorite bands, Behemoth. It’s not a new full length, unfortunately, but an EP titled A Forest, which has two versions of the song by the same title originally recorded by The Cure. There’s a recorded […]
Tags: 2020, Behemoth, Black/Death Metal, J Mays, Metal Blade Records, New Aeon Musick, Review
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › W on Monday, June 8th, 2020
Werewolves is a new blackened death metal super group of sorts from Australia featuring Sam Bean (The Berzerker, The Senseless,The Antichirst Imperium ) on vocals/bass, Matt Wilcock (The Berzerker, Abramalin, The Antichirst Imperium) and most notably drummer Dave Haley (Abramelin, The Amenta, Psycroptic, Ruins). According to the promotional materials , the album was written and […]
Tags: 2020, Black/Death Metal, Erik T, Prosthetic Records, Review, Werewolves
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › N on Thursday, May 14th, 2020
Necrowretch, from France, return with their fourth long-player, The Ones From Hell. I have been a huge fan of the band since their ripping 2013 debut Putrid Death Sorcery and have reviewed all their albums and interviewed singer/guitarist Vlad years ago. Their last album Satanic Slavery was a massively intense album-and saw the band break […]
Tags: 2020, Black/Death Metal, Frank Rini, Necrowretch, Review, Season of Mist
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › P on Wednesday, April 22nd, 2020
Tampa Florida’s Black Death Serpents of Perdition Temple return with their third full length album Sacraments of Descension. Having been a fan of Gene Palubicki’s work in past Projects like Angel Corpse and Blasphemic Cruelty I was excited to review this. Palubicki’s riffing is on point throughout this whole album and there is not an […]
Tags: 2020, Black/Death Metal, Hells Headbangers, Nick K, Perdition Temple, Review
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › D on Thursday, April 9th, 2020
I, like I’m sure many of you reading this, LOVE beer. I brew my own beer. I love visiting new breweries and talking with brewers about their craft. I’m all for brewers trying new techniques and experimenting with different ingredients. That being said, it’s also very easy for brewers to just go too fucking far. […]
Tags: 2020, Black/Death Metal, Depravation, Lifeforce Records, Review, Steve K
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › K on Tuesday, April 7th, 2020
There wasn’t much hype I saw surrounding the new self-titled album from Kaoteon. This is their third full length, in addition to a couple of singles and demos. Songwriter and band namesake Anthony Kaoteon enlisted the likes of Linus Klausenitzer from Obscura on the bass, Adrian Erlandsson from At The Gates , and vocalist Walid […]
Tags: 2020, Black/Death Metal, J Mays, Kaoteon, Review, Self-Released
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › N on Tuesday, March 24th, 2020
After Swedish Death Metal, my favorite kind of death metal is that burly, chunky blackened death metal,. Big beefy riffs, commanding deep vocals, and a pretty strong militant vibe. It’s a sound Behemoth perfected in the mid 00s, (with Zos Kia Cultus being the arguable apex of the style) and recently bands like Poland’s Hate, […]
Tags: 2020, Black/Death Metal, E.Thomas, Nexorum, Non Serviam Records, Review
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › O on Friday, March 13th, 2020
Oh shit. So I’ve been on a bit of a blackened death metal kick lately, but also still riding last years symphonic black metal wave that had me impressed and littered my year end list. Well outta nowhere come Australia’s Oath of Damnation with a sophomore album with a violent double penetration of both styles. […]
Tags: 2020, Black/Death Metal, E.Thomas, Gore House Productions, Oath of Damnation, Review, Symphonic Black Metal
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › A on Thursday, February 20th, 2020
I had high hopes for the second effort from Pete Helmkamp’s latest post Angelcorpse endeavor, especially after the nasty little slab of black/death filth that was the debut, Larvae Offal Swine. But alas, Proselyte Parasite Plague is a disappointing, flat (literally) follow up. The main reason for the album’s failure is the guitar tone and production. […]
Tags: 2020, Abhomine, Black/Death Metal, E.Thomas, Osmose Productions, Review
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › B on Friday, December 20th, 2019
If you haven’t checked out Virginia’s Construct of Lethe, do so now. Their 2018 effort Exiler, was one of 2018s best death metal albums, and now founder Tony Petrocelly has gone back to Construct of Lethe‘s past to deliver a vision of the band’s future…bear with me here. Back in the early 00s , before […]
Tags: 2019, Bethledeign, Black/Death Metal, E.Thomas, Edgewood Arsenal Records, Review