Well, now, friends. What we have here is a swollen, pus-oozing freak of nature. A demon from the foulest depths of Hell, ugly and mutated beyond all imagination; something straight out of an H.P. Lovecraft book. Of course, I’m talking about the new Chained to the Dead… what did you think I was talking about? […]

So I wrote a draft of a review for Last Retch‘s Abject Cruelty, but decided to let fellow scribe J Mays handle it. But I still gave that album lots of spins. So, when I got the promo for Montreal’s Scorching Tomb, also a Canadian death metal band on the Italian label Time To Kill […]

Any band, fan, or reader of my reviews knows I love all forms of extreme music, and when it comes to death metal, yes, I will admit to saying the scene is way too saturated with a bajillion bands. I do, however, love a lot of the new bands. When it comes to extreme music, […]

Centinex has been spreading OSSDM (Old School Swedish Death Metal) to the masses since 1991 with their aptly titled Stupid Humanity demo, it came out the year I graduated, as a matter of fact. Now that I’m feeling old as fuck, I’m loving the nostalgia brought on with their amazing new album, With Guts and […]

Vocalist Ralf Hauber and Jonny Pettersson (guitars/ bass/keys) have been slinging their twisted brand of horror death metal that is Heads for the Dead since 2017. For this album, Never Ending Night of Terror – their fourth album – Evan Daniele was called in to play the drums, and Matt Moliti is the second guitarist. […]

Meat and potatoes Death Metal should be its own sub-genre by this point. A dish served in a chipotle sauce with eyeballs stuffed with foie gras and finger sausages, and a nice blood pudding for dessert. Santa Cruz natives Torture Hammer are back, following a Demo called Dormant Horror released last year (I haven’t heard […]

You may or may not have heard of Bristol’s killing squad, Plague Pit. That’s okay if you haven’t… yet. Apparently, there was a band out of Dublin with the same name, and they’re split up, so it’s kind of irrelevant. Hopefully, after reading this humble review, you will trample over your neighbors to be the […]

If you’re not a fan of Tribal Gaze’s previous album, The Nine Choirs, you should be. If you still aren’t after checking out, then I’m not your buddy, friend! The good news is that the new one, Inveighing Brilliance, travels the same path. If you’re unfamiliar, they peddle the same old school death metal revival […]

France’ Horror Within released a damn good EP in 2022, Awaiting Extinction, and now equipped with a brand new label, Soul Awakening, their debut album is unleashed. The band also welcomes in new vocalist Loris Padovani. The EP had some technical death metal moments as well as deathcore nods. Soul Awakening is a different beast […]

  I have reviewed all of Sanguisugabogg’s prior releases, so it would make sense that I reviewed their latest album, Hideous Aftermath. I predicted years ago the band was going to blow the F up, and that is precisely what has happened – I am Nostradamus. With their incessant worldwide touring, huge social media presence […]

How do I even begin to cover a band with a 30th anniversary looming on the horizon? Not only that, but due to the lyrics on their albums, four have been banned in their native Germany and not for dodgy politics, but because the government was disgusted by the violence of the lyrics. OH MY! […]

Let’s get this out of the way immediately: Last Retch is a “meat and potatoes” death metal band who plays “meat and potatoes” death metal. Abject Cruelty is 8 songs, 28 minutes rounded up, and will hit you with literally zero surprises, except perhaps how badass it is. It’s very easy to get things rolling […]

I’m not familiar with Finland’s Enragement, but a former writer, K Allred, enjoyed their last effort, 2022s, Atrocities, and he is in a pretty fine death metal band (Crungus), so I trust his opinion. And this sounds nothing like typical cavernous Finnish death metal. This is a very European-meets-American-sounding death metal that covers all the […]

So I didn’t know this, but apparently Dripping Decay broke up? That didn’t last long, a literal handful of releases, including one full-length Festering Grotesqueries in 2023 and then an EP called Ripping Remains in 2024… now they’ve resurfaced as Ripping Remains. Go figure… band drama. Well, I don’t care about band drama. I care […]

Back in 2023, an album was released that I absolutely loved. It was Khnvm’s Visions of a Plague Ridden Sky, and not only did I review it in these hallowed pages, it also made it onto my year-end list (shocker). Fast forward to 2025, and they are back with another bludgeoning album in the form […]

Barbarous is a new death metal band out of California. They released a two-song EP last year, Coup de Grâce, as a precursor to their debut album, and both those songs reappear on this album – Initium Mors. Eight songs in 29 minutes and all encapsulated in a fun album cover equipped with a neat […]

If you don’t know the name Darren Cesca, you certainly know the bands he has drummed for over the years: Pillory, Arsis, Goratory, Incinerate, In Asymmetry, Serpent of Gnosis, Deeds of Flesh, and what was a surprise to me, the 2006 Burn In Silence album, Angel Maker– a metalcore album drenched in keyboards. Here is […]

Crungus (a name given to an AI-generated creature – I’ll let Wikipedia explain this one further) is a Texas-based death metal band that happens to feature a former writer for this very site, Kris Allred, who performs bass here on the band’s second album, their first on a label. So now that’s out of the […]

Sweden’s most consistent bunch of Vikings need no introduction. Unleashed have been stalwarts of the scene since Johnny Hedlund was booted from Nihilist back in the late 80s. It worked out pretty well for him because 36 years later, Unleashed are poised to release Fire Upon Your Lands, their 15th full-length album. Hot off the […]

I’ve been a fan of Angerot for the last several years, reviewing them here and enjoying their version of Swedish inspired death metal. I really enjoy it when bands think outside of the box. Angerot’s longtime drummer Matt Johnson, departs, but the band has new songs to record and to keep their label happy. So […]

This review is incredibly late, but I have reasons. Some are personal, but some made me think the Metal Gods (RIP Ozzy) were working against me. In one instance, when I tried to sit down and finish this out, my headphones wouldn’t pair even when perfectly charged. Another time, they somehow weren’t charged at all […]

I reviewed France’s Creeping Fear Hategod Triumph, their second album, several years ago and commented on what a damn fine slab piece of Morbid Angel/Immolation and some Hate Eternal-inspired death metal it was. Realm of the Impaled is the third album, and yes, the band is still going with the goofy-looking Baphomet to adorn their cover […]

Back in 2022, I did a review in these hallowed pages for an all-female international beast called Castrator. That album was Defiled in Oblivion, and it was one of my favorite releases of that year. Since that time, they’ve been doing… whatever bands do; I’m assuming playing shows and recording this album. What an album […]

First off, there is a contender for the best album cover art of the year, right there (Though Clamfight’s S/T is still my favorite so far). After a 5-year wait, Germany’s most American-sounding death metal stalwarts, Dehuman Reign, are back with album number 3. And little has changed since 2020s Descending Upon the Oblivious. Still […]

Sweden’s Puteraeon are back with their fifth full-length album, Mountains of Madness. Their running themes across their albums are of Lovecraftian lore, and this album delves into one of, if not my favorite, of all of Lovecraft’s tales – At the Mountains of Madness. Many bands across the decades, as well as currently, have tackled […]