After delivering their debut in 2021’s The Codex of Flesh, Crown Magnetar has grown into a monster in the scene with 3 EPs and 2023 sophomore crusher, Everything Bleeds. And there is no time for mercy as the 4 songs here continue with what Everything Bleeds built upon. Pure fucking devastation.

There’s no doubt in my mind that these 18 minutes, along with Whitechapel’s new album, will comprise some of 2025’s most brutal music (at least as far as Deathcore). It’s absolutely relentless, largely due to Dan Tucker’s monstrous bellows but also due to the sheer heft delivered on the likes of all four tracks. Notably the last two songs, “Bringer of Dead Light” and “Decapitation Ritual”, with a closeout/breakdown that will bring you to your knees.

It’s not all breakdowns as openers “Barbed Wire Noose” and “Nailed the Fuck Down”  could go toe to toe with the likes of Benighted or Aborted at times, but ultimately, every song leaves a path of destruction in its wakes as Crown Magnetar continues to stomp on the throat of the deathcore genre.

On the other hand, is the pure fucking beatdown of Colorado’s Crown Magnetar and their second album, Everything Bleeds. An utterly pulverizing, rip your throat up, stamp on your dick, curb-stomp a priest, and then fuck your mom take on deathcore.

This is where I usually break down the album a little bit, highlight a few songs or personal favorites, talk about the production or sometimes even gripe about some minor issues with an album. But to be honest- there’s not much point, as Everything Bleeds just knocks your teeth out from start to finish, and literally leaves no time to react or absorb.

Clocking in at barely over 30 minutes, the album starts with “Nail Funeral” and ends with “Prismatic Tomb” and while the band does have a few moments of ‘atmospherics’ (i.e. some background keyboards or short intro here and there, largely on those two opening and closing tracks and massive “The Level Beneath”) almost everything in between is just a complete and total bludgeoning (as are the aforementioned tracks, don’t be fooled by me using the words atmospheric or keyboards).

But the above numbers as well as the likes of “Hex Ov Hate”, “Everything Bleeds”, “Unholy Neck Stab”, “The Killing Stone”, “Only The Spine Remains” and “Despised from Seed” will arguably go down as 2023’s most intense pure old school deathcore. The breakdowns (and blasts for that matter) are just fucking ridiculous, especially when paired with the vocals of Dan Tucker (arguably one of the most imposing vocalists in the genre) and the clinically brutal production/mix/master of Mike Sahm.

Bonus points the for the upped levels of utterly hateful blasphemy as well, in the lyrics and artwork ( another winner from Calean Stokkermans) as well.

Like their debut and ss if to directly go against the current trend of orchestration, keyboards, and blackened atmospherics in deathcore, (which BTW, I’m loving), have chosen to instead be more direct and tear your fucking face off with an absolutely brutal, direct 16 minutes, 6 songs of utter devastation. Though certainly a deathcore band, and have the breakdowns to prove it, I’m reminded of the early-mid-00s bands like The Red Shore, Those That Lie Beneath, As You Drown and such, where were deathcore at heart but also had one foot heavily planed in brutal death metal.

First off, Dan Tucker is a fucking beast, I’m not sure if there is a vocalist out there as imposing vocally and it appears physically, and the music matches to boot. The 6 relatively short bangers all deliver punishing blast beasts, that are virtually relentless, as heard on the blistering opening duo of “Alone in Death” and “Hellsphere”, but both also feature cursing breakdowns. And of course, there are plenty of those to be had in the 6 songs such as “Realistic Flesh Mask” (featuring Molotivs Solution‘s Nick Arthur) the opening of the surprisingly technical “The Pain of Existence” (featuring Jamie Hanks of I Declare War),  “Graverot” (maybe the heaviest of all of them) and closer “God is my Enemy” but they certainly are not the focus as with some of their peers.

A perfect addition to Unique leader alongside label mates Osiah and Signs of the Swarm for uncompromising, utterly brutal deathcore, and arguably one the crown jewels of this current deathcore revival.