Posts Tagged ‘Death Metal’
Posted in Frontpage Feature, Reviews, Reviews › U on Monday, September 1st, 2025
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 […]
Tags: 2025, Death Metal, Jeremy Beck, Napalm Records, Review, Unleashed, Viking Metal
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › A on Thursday, August 21st, 2025
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 […]
Tags: 2025, Angerot, Death Metal, Frank Rini, Redefining Darkness Records, Review, Swedish Death Metal
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › A on Thursday, August 14th, 2025
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 […]
Tags: 2025, Atomic Witch, Death Metal, Death/Thrash Metal, J Mays, Redefining Darkness Records, Review, thrash metal
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › C on Wednesday, August 13th, 2025
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 […]
Tags: 2025, Creeping Fear, Death Metal, Dolorem Records, Frank Rini, Review
Posted in Frontpage Feature, Reviews, Reviews › C on Monday, August 11th, 2025
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 […]
Tags: 2025, Castrator, Dark Descent Records, Death Metal, Jeremy Beck, Review
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › D on Thursday, August 7th, 2025
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 […]
Tags: 2025, Death Metal, Dehuman Reign, Erik T, FDA Records, Review
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › P on Thursday, July 31st, 2025
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 […]
Tags: 2025, Death Metal, Emanzipation Productions, Frank Rini, Puteraeon, Review
Posted in Frontpage Feature, Reviews, Reviews › V on Monday, July 21st, 2025
Thaumaturgic Veil, the fourth full-length from Milwaukee’s Viogression, came out of nowhere. It could be that the band has no label, and maybe that is why? Their last album, 3rd Stage of Decay, was a damn good album, and this album has a very striking and cool AF album cover. Brian DeNeffe, vocals, is the […]
Tags: 2025, Death Metal, Frank Rini, Review, Self-Released, Viogression
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › D on Friday, July 11th, 2025
The influence of England’s Bolt Thrower is vast and far-reaching. The band’s paying homage and straight-up clones are endless. From Indonesia’s Humiliation, Germany’s Scaplture , France’s Infern, Canada’s World Eaters, Australia’s Domination Campaign, and of course England’s own tribute band Memoriam, the list goes on and on. Well, here is another one. A solid one […]
Tags: 2025, Death Kommander, Death Metal, Erik T, FDA Records, Review
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › D on Thursday, June 26th, 2025
Damonacy was a short-lived death metal band from New Jersey, and after a few short years from 1988-1990, they split. They did record a song, “Expectations”, in 1994 for a compilation that never was released. I can’t quite remember, but I may have seen them live during their active years. I saw multiple shows weekly […]
Tags: 2025, Damonacy, Death Metal, Frank Rini, Hessian Firm, Review
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › G on Tuesday, June 24th, 2025
Perhaps I can be forgiven for being incredibly late on turning in this review. We’re all ‘Human‘, right? Regardless of your penchant for mercy, Gruesome is back with their familiar take on ‘Death‘ Metal. I had to get my puns out of the way quickly before talking about the music, but the question begs, do we […]
Tags: 2025, Death Metal, Gruesome, J Mays, Relapse Records, Review
Posted in Frontpage Feature, Reviews, Reviews › C on Sunday, June 15th, 2025
Canada’s most extreme metal band, Cryptopsy returns with their 9th full-length album, An Insatiable Violence. I have been a fan since the very early days. When I joined Internal Bleeding in 1994, Cryptopsy were just gaining steam, and we played a string of shows together with them in Canada and some fests here in the […]
Tags: 2025, Brutal Death Metal, Cryptopsy, Death Metal, Frank Rini, Review, Season of Mist, Technical Death Metal
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › D on Wednesday, June 11th, 2025
I have been a fan of Germany’s Deserted Fear and their brand of European-inspired melodic death metal since their great 2012 debut album – My Empire. Their killer second album in 2014, Kingdom of Worms, is still my favorite by them. Veins of Fire is their sixth album, and their last three albums have all […]
Tags: 2025, Death Metal, Deserted Fear, Frank Rini, Melodic Death Metal, Review, Testimony Records
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › B on Friday, June 6th, 2025
Bludgeoned By Deformity is a new underground death metal kinda sorta supergroup with members in three different states. Devin Swank (Sanguisugabogg, Tomb Sentinel, Earthburner, Immortal Torment, Ablation, ex-Limbsplitter), bassist Ethan Buttery (Jivebomb, Sinister Feeling), drummer Adam Jarvis (Pig Destroyer, Misery Index, End Reign, Fulgora, Lock Up, Scour), and guitarists Bradon Studebaker (Immortal Torment, ex-Rejoice) and […]
Tags: 2025, Bludgeoned By Deformity, Death Metal, Frank Rini, Iron Fortress Records, Review
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › L on Tuesday, June 3rd, 2025
When Morgoth ceased to exist following the shitty Feel Sorry for the Fanatic there was a hole left in the Death Metal community. They did reunite, albeit without vocalist Marc Grewe for the pretty good Ungod, but it wasn’t the same. It’s ok though because Leper Colony was formed to fill that sizeable void. As […]
Tags: 2025, Death Metal, Jeremy Beck, Leper Colony, Review, Testimony Records
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › L on Thursday, May 29th, 2025
Swedish death metal super group Lik (‘corpse’) has been churning out solid Dismember meets Wolverine Blues area Entombed since 2015s, Mass Funeral Evocation and 2018 Carnage. But despite a lineup that features folks from Katatonia, The Resistance, Face Down, Kaamos and such, I feel like they never took that jump into Entrails levels of genre […]
Tags: 2025, Death Metal, Lik, Metal Blade Records, Review, Swedish Death Metal
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › H on Tuesday, May 27th, 2025
Listen, I know. Even though they were founded first, Poland’s Hate sounds like Behemoth circa Zos Kia Kultus, Demigod, Evangelion. I seen them be called ‘Wish’ Behemoth or ‘Temu’ Behemoth, but the fact is, I’ve ordered some pretty cool shit from Wish and Temu. And with the band’s 13th album that’s what you get- some […]
Tags: 2025, Black/Death Metal, Death Metal, Erik T, Hate, Metal Blade Records, Review
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › S on Wednesday, May 14th, 2025
This spring/summer, two mid-era Behemoth-inspired acts will be vying for your attention: the always reliable Hate, and this French death metal act and their third album, although I have not heard the first two self-released albums. But Transcending Obscurity saw enough to sign them, and that label usually does not miss. And they certainly have […]
Tags: 2025, Death Metal, Erik T, Review, Skaphos, Transcending Obscurity Records
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › H on Friday, May 9th, 2025
I love gore. Not real gore, mind you; movie gore. The scene from Gates to Hell when the woman vomits her intestines, you know that sort of thing. Haemorrhage hail from beautiful Spain and they love gore as well, they also love Carcass and it’s evident on this five tracker. It’s not just Carcass, though. […]
Tags: 2025, Death Metal, Haemorrhage, Hells Headbangers, Jeremy Beck, Review
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › S on Thursday, May 8th, 2025
My bud Alex, the owner of Dolorem Records, has sent me yet another promo for one of his bands, and this time it’s Supreme Void, a Polish death metal band playing a dissonant style of extreme music. Fans of Ulcerate, Immolation, and Gorguts take heed of this bad boy. “Remnants of Hope” opens this six-song […]
Tags: 2025, Death Metal, Dolorem Records, Frank Rini, Review, Supreme Void
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › W on Tuesday, May 6th, 2025
Sweden’s Wombbath experienced quite a resurgence when they came back into the fold in 2014 and a year later released Downfall Rising, their long overdue sophomore release to their classic 1993 debut Internal Caustic Torments. I reviewed Downfall Rising on this very site of ours, too. Since then, they have released four other albums and […]
Tags: 2025, Death Metal, Frank Rini, Pulverised Records, Review, Wombbath
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › P on Friday, May 2nd, 2025
Who said that Switzerland was only known for Celtic Frost, Coroner, and Swiss Cheese? Enter in Pusboil, who in 2022 crafted a real heavy demo and their debut album in 2023, Ancient Stories of Suffering and Disease, expanded on that full scope. The band has brutal influences ranging from Sanguisugabogg, Undergang, and Cephalotripsy. Indictment is […]
Tags: 2025, Death Metal, Pathologically Explicit Recordings, Pusboil, Review
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › D on Thursday, May 1st, 2025
Back in 2022, these French maniacs, formerly known as Herpes, dropped their excellent debut, Blood Red Tentacle. A fine Swedeath album with a foul reek of Autopsy that reminded me of the short-lived super group Murder Squad. And with their second effort, not much has changed. If anything, the stench of Autopsy is even thicker […]
Tags: 2025, Death Metal, Disfuneral, Erik T, Redefining Darkness Records, Review
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › C on Tuesday, April 29th, 2025
I was drawn to the debut album from Belgium’s Coffin Feeder by the album cover featuring some awesomely iconic 80s movie and TV characters from the likes of Cobra, Commando, Predator, They Live, Gremlins, The Running Man, Total Recall, Big Trouble in Little China, He -Man, GI Joe and others all who seem to be […]
Tags: 2025, Coffin Feeder, Death Metal, Erik T, Grindcore, Listenable Records, Review
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › D on Friday, April 25th, 2025
Polish death metal duo Dormant Ordeal has been around since 2008, and has three prior albums under their belt, but they are a new act to me and newly signed to Willowtip for their 4th album. Much like fellow Poles Redemptor or Trauma, Dormant Ordeal plays a form of distinctly Polish death metal with traceable […]
Tags: 2025, Death Metal, Dormant Ordeal, Erik T, Technical Death Metal, Willowtip Records