Posts Tagged ‘Deathcore’
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › L on Friday, March 15th, 2024
After a solid career that saw TLTSOL emerge as a solid upper-tier US deathcore act with 6 albums, guitarist Wyatt McLaughlin saw his band gutted back in 2022. He rebuilt TLTSOL and delivered a solid EP, The Disquisition of an Execution in 2023 to get the new lineup greased up and ready for what was to […]
Tags: 2024, Deathcore, Erik T, Review, The Last Ten Seconds of Life, Unique Leader Records
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › C on Thursday, January 25th, 2024
Cariosus is a new young Chicago duo comprised of Alex Pfister on vocals/bass and Kevin Kryszak on guitars (I can’t find any drummer information, so maybe programmed? They sound fine if so). The duo plays a form of modern metal that pulls from metalcore, melodic death metal, deathcore and such that leans into bands like […]
Tags: 2024, Cariosus, Deathcore, Erik T, Melodic Death Metal, Metalcore, Review, Self-Released
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › O on Tuesday, January 2nd, 2024
This UK deathcore band has been busy over the last few years in terms of writing and playing shows. Osiah’s last full-length album in 2021, Loss, I felt was pretty damn monstrous and their best album. The band somewhat falls into the category of technical deathcore and while there are those prevalent influences, I find […]
Tags: 2024, Deathcore, Frank Rini, Osiah, Review, Unique Leader Records
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › E on Thursday, December 21st, 2023
France’s Embrace Your Punishment started as a pretty standard hardcore Hatebreed-ish band with some death metal hues back in 2014s Honor Before Glory, but has got progressively heavier with 2019s Nameless King, especially vocally. And now with album number 3, Made of Stone, are an absolute beast of a band that blends hardcore, brutal death […]
Tags: 2023, Deathcore, Embrace Your Punishment, Erik T, Hardcore, Lacerated Enemy Records, Review
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › V on Tuesday, December 5th, 2023
Unique Leader Records? Check. Caelen Stokkermans cover art? Check. Blackened Technical deathcore? Check. Cool band moniker? Check. Christian Donaldson (Cryptopsy) mix/master? Check Album title I can identify with? Check. Yeah, I’m definitely reviewing and digging this. Portugal’s The Voynich Code is named after the Voynich Manuscript, a mysterious 15th-century codex full of images and writings […]
Tags: 2023, Blackened Deathcore, Deathcore, Erik T, Review, Symphonic, The Voynich Code, Unique Leader Records
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › F on Friday, December 1st, 2023
I realize Deathcore is a polarizing form of extreme metal and quite honestly I could give 2 shits. Many people and fans, as well as current and former members of my alma mater, Internal Bleeding have even said our earlier work had a direct influence on Deathcore. The main points discussed were our second album, […]
Tags: 2023, Deathcore, Face Yours, Frank Rini, Review, Self-Released
Posted in Frontpage Feature, Reviews, Reviews › C on Monday, October 2nd, 2023
Despite being one of the first deathcore bands to dabble with black metal keyboards, Carnifex seems to have never quite fully committed to being a full-on symphonic/blackened deathcore band. The last two albums, 2019s World War X and 2021s Graveside Confessions, flip-flopped between more Whitechapel-styled deathcore and slightly more blackened deathcore that they introduced with […]
Tags: 2023, Blackened Deathcore, Carnifex, Deathcore, Nuclear Blast Records, Review
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › M on Tuesday, September 12th, 2023
Mortem Obscuram initially got on my radar with their debut Eradication of the Human Endeavor back in 2021, a solid if unspectacular release of blackened/symphonic technical deathcore/death metal. It was OK, but I really didn’t give it that much attention, post-release. But boy, with The Wretched Divinity, they certainly have not gotten on my radar- […]
Tags: 2023, Deathcore, Erik T, Mortem Obscuram, Review, Self-Released, Symphonic Metal, Technical Deathcore
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › T on Thursday, September 7th, 2023
It seems my reviews are becoming scarce, but when I do review something these days, it’s almost always an AOTY sleeper. It might be that I don’t spend time on anything unless I enjoy it. This is because I am typically doing one of three things; working, sleeping, or attending concerts, with the occasional opportunity […]
Tags: 2023, Deathcore, J Mays, M-Theory Audio, Progressive Metal/Djent, Tegmentum
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › C on Wednesday, July 26th, 2023
This summer, two major deathcore heavyweights will be vying for your attention. On one hand, is Signs of the Swarm and the subtly evolved and technical Amongst the Low & Empty. A still brutal, but intricate, deft evolution of modern Deathcore. On the other hand, is the pure fucking beatdown of Colorado’s Crown Magnetar and […]
Tags: 2023, Crown Magnetar, Deathcore, Erik T, Review, Unique Leader Records
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › S on Tuesday, July 25th, 2023
It almost seems silly to type the phrase “old-school deathcore.” It means bands such as All Shall Perish, Despised Icon, and Suicide Silence, at least in my view. I’m sure it means something different to others. Nowadays, with the awareness to know I am sounding like an old man yelling at clouds, it’s symphonic deathcore […]
Tags: 2023, Century Media Records, Deathcore, J Mays, Review, Signs Of The Swam
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › D on Tuesday, July 11th, 2023
I love head-banging. It is a great feeling to release pent-up energy at a Metal show, the crowd is into the experience; each head is like those fucking drinking birds you can get at the novelty store. Unfortunately for me, my head-banging days are pretty much over. I just kind of shake my head like […]
Tags: 2023, Dead and Dripping, Deathcore, Jeremy Beck, Review, Technical Death Metal, Transcending Obscurity Records
Posted in Frontpage Feature, Reviews, Reviews › M on Monday, June 12th, 2023
Starting as a standard brutal death metal/slam band, Germany’s started adding some keyboards around 2019’s Inferis, but it was for 2021’s excellent A Hill to Die Upon, where they went full-on symphonic deathcore, and on the heels of Lorna Shore‘s genre igniting Immortal, comparisons to Lorna Shore were inevitable…. and warranted. However, they also had […]
Tags: 2023, Blackened Deathcore, Century Media Records, Deathcore, Erik T, Mental Cruelty
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › W on Friday, April 28th, 2023
Belgium’s When Plagues Collide released a damn solid debut album of symphonic/blackened deathcore back in 2019, Tutor of the Dying, before the genre really took off. And honestly, it probably should have got more attention but then Lorna Shore happened, Mental Cruelty happened, Worm Shepherd happened, and Shadow of Intent happened. And then 1,234 other […]
Tags: 2023, Blackened Deathcore, Deathcore, Erik T, Necktwister, Review, Symphonic, When Plagues Collide
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › A on Friday, April 7th, 2023
Who knew there were not one but TWO excellent symphonic/blackened deathcore bands right here in my backyard in, Missouri? One is Kansas City’s Vile Revelation, who released their killer debut EP Ov Vultures and Flesh back in 2022 (though I only discovered it earlier this year, hence no review) and Abaddonia, hailing from the darkest […]
Tags: 2023, Abaddonia, Blackened Deathcore, Deathcore, Erik T, Review, Self-Released
Posted in Frontpage Feature, Reviews, Reviews › O on Monday, March 27th, 2023
One could argue, that along with Distant’s Heritage, To the Grave‘s Director’s Cuts, Chelsea Grin‘s double album, and Suicide Silence’s newest, the debut from Ov Sulfur is up there as one of 2023’s early high-profile deathcore releases. Featuring former Suffokate vocalist Ricky Hoover (who has beefed up considerably in the 9 years since his Suffokate […]
Tags: 2023, Century Media Records, Deathcore, Erik T, Ov Sulfur, Review
Posted in Frontpage Feature, Reviews, Reviews › S on Monday, March 20th, 2023
There is only 1 Suicide Silence album I do not have in my collection and if you guessed it was their self-titled affair from 2017 you would be correct. I am not a fan of that album or the musical direction they went in. I was especially disappointed in it after they released the great […]
Tags: 2023, Century Media Records, Deathcore, Frank Rini, Review, Suicide Silence
Posted in Frontpage Feature, Reviews, Reviews › D on Monday, February 20th, 2023
The Netherlands’ Distant has the unenviable task of now being on the same label as Lorna Shore after a stint on Unique Leader. And then, as one of the first, larger profile deathcore bands to release an album in 2023, after Lorna Shore‘s Pain Remains changed the game for deathcore (labelmates Ov Sulfur look to […]
Tags: 2023, Century Media Records, Deathcore, Distant, Downtempo, Erik T, Review
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › D on Friday, February 10th, 2023
International (Canada/ US/ Australia) act Dragoncorpse, has garnered quite a bit of on line hype with their take on deathcore meets power metal and anime (self-described power core), with three rip-roaring singles, as well as a rather amusing online presence full of memes and self-deprecating humor. Well, now it’s time to see if the hype […]
Tags: 2023, Deathcore, Dragoncorpse, Erik T, Power Metal, Review, Self-Released
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › 012 on Monday, December 19th, 2022
I have not listened to a Comatose Music release in a while, so I thoughts I’d check in on the reliably predictable label and see what one of their latest releases was like- and boy the label’s shift to proggy power metal was a real surprise! I keeeeed. It’s brutal slamming death metal – what […]
Tags: 2022, 9 Dead, Brutal Death Metal, Comatose Music, Deathcore, Erik T, Review, Slam
Posted in Frontpage Feature, Reviews, Reviews › C on Monday, November 28th, 2022
Let’s be honest, any deathcore records released in 2022 are going to be compared to Lorna Shore‘s Pain Remains, and releasing the same month as Pain Remains is a ballsy move. But Unique Leader pulled off two successful competitors with A Wake in Providence and Bonecarver. Let’s see how Nuclear Blast’s entry, the debut from […]
Tags: 2022, Cabal, Deathcore, Erik T, Nuclear Blast Records, Review
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › L on Friday, November 25th, 2022
What’s the fucking point? Seriously, what’s the point of deathcore anymore? When Lorna Shore raised the bar so high, yet A Wake in Providence and Angelmaker came very close to clearing it with their releases early in the year, I just wonder why any band would even try. That’s the thing about deathcore, though. It […]
Tags: 2022, Deathcore, J Mays, Review, The Last Ten Seconds of Life, Unique Leader Records
Posted in Frontpage Feature, Reviews, Reviews › I on Monday, November 7th, 2022
As heralded by their single “Rebirth” (which appears on this album as a remixed bonus track) from earlier this year, one of the UK’S leading deathccore/slamming death metal acts, Ingested is a band reborn. Now a three-piece consisting of drummer Lyn Jeffs, guitarist/backing vocalist Sean Hynes and vocalist Jason Evans and aided on this album […]
Tags: 2022, Deathcore, Erik T, Ingested, Metal Blade Records, Review
Posted in Frontpage Feature, Reviews, Reviews › A on Monday, October 24th, 2022
When you run the risk of being simply known as “the band that Will Ramos of Lorna Shore used to sing for”, you’d better deliver on your album that you recorded after Ramos’s departure …. And Boy to A Wake in Providence respond and let the blackened deathcore world know they are NOT simply going […]
Tags: 2022, A Wake In Providence, Blackened Deathcore, Deathcore, Erik T, Review, Symphonic Metal, Unique Leader Records
Posted in Frontpage Feature, Reviews, Reviews › L on Monday, October 10th, 2022
Have a seat, and grab a snack. This is gonna be a long one. Way back in 2015 I reviewed a pretty nondescript EP, Maleficium, from this New Jersey band called Lorna Shore. It was Ok, odd band name, and a few keyboards, but nothing really stood out. The same can be said for the […]
Tags: 2022, Blackened Deathcore, Century Media Records, Deathcore, Erik T, Lorna Shore, Review