When I saw an email come through for a new Wormwood release, I was giddy with excitement. Sweden’s Wormwood has been one of the premier melodic black metal bands since their 2017 debut, Ghostland’s, through the trilogy of connected albums, Nattarvett, Arkivet, and 2024’s The Star. At the end of my review of The Star, […]
Is it me, or is the album cover with the logo and song titles on the side becoming more of a thing? Anyhoo, hailing from Tasmania, The Absolution Sequence is a technical death metal band with some deathcore/djent leanings. Apparently, they started as a ‘groove/death metal’ band for a plethora of singles and demos since […]
I’ve been fucking around with Disfiguring the Goddess since 2012’s Sleeper, but the last album I actually heard from ‘Big Chocolate’ (aka Cameron Argon, formerly of Abominable Putridity and Burning the Masses) and his dubstep/techno infused take on deathcore was 2019’s Katerpillar. Now, certainly, techno and dubstep beats/programming in metal, specifically deathcore, have been used […]
It’s been 10 looooong years since I discovered the UK’s Cairiss and their debut EP, Fall: a gorgeous example of Myrkur-y ,Deafheaven-y, Alcest-y, Ghost Bath-y post/atmospheric black metal. There have been a couple of lineup changes, with Alex Taylor coming over from the now split-up Aklash. Still, the most impactful addition is Lydia Williams on […]
Parody bands have always been a ‘meh’ for me, even going back to Lawnmower Deth days and more recently, Cannabis Corpse. But England’s Jaldaboath is an exception; their two albums Rise of the Heraldic Beasts and The Further Adventures of…are both hilarious and contain brilliant songs as well as clever use of many other TV/Movie […]
I have been eagerly awaiting a full-length debut from Australia’s Complexant since I heard the song “Your Sacrifice” from 2024; to this day, it still has some of the most gorgeous keyboards I’ve heard in a deathcore song, right up there with Winters Gate‘s “Preordained”. (The band’s debut 2023 EP, Rite of Passage, also has […]
You kind of know what you are getting with any band on The Artisan Era: techy, shredding tech death of some sort, sometimes with keyboards, often a bit blackened, but always with top-notch musicians. Their roster is full of them: Inferi, Aethereus, Demon King, The Devils of Loudon, to name a few. And in 2024, […]
As I mentioned in my review of the 2025 Existentialist EP, Terminal, Seek and Strike is snatching up all the Blackened deathcore acts like To Obey A Tyrant, Ruins of Perception, When Plagues Collide, Immortal Disfigurement, Assemble the Chariots and Downfall of Mankind. And now they have added another one with Austria’s Castiel (Hebrew for […]
International symphonic/atmospheric black metal act Sojourner first got on my radar with their excellent cover of Summoning’s “South Away” (one of my favorite Summoning songs) back in 2017, but I didn’t check out any albums until their third effort, Premonitions, was covered in these pages back in 2020. Then the single “Perennial” in 2021 was where […]
Admittedly, I’ve been pretty locked in to the milder side of my metal spectrum; melodic black metal, symphonic deathcore, etc. However, I did randomly have a craving for Sweden’s Deranged, and fired up Deranged, , Rated X, and Plainfield Cemetery. ( I never heard anything past Plainfield…I should probably rectify that). I had a pretty […]
Spinebuster Entertainment is the new label created by the founders of Transcending the Mundane, an excellent print magazine/zine that ran from 1996-2006, and the third album from Canada’s Ethereal Void is one of their first releases. The trio, comprised of Vollicide, Logan Mayhem, and Nemesis, don’t have much information out there about their background (except […]
After 4 albums and a few splits/EPs of damn solid Swedish-style death metal, Germany’s Endseeker is calling it quits, and this 5-song EP is their swan song. I missed the last full-length, 2023’s Global Worming, but I enjoyed the last album I heard, 2021’s Mount Carcass. The band was always one of the better Dismember […]
When I first started mentally writing this review, I had a whole idea about doing a bit about bands shadow dropping albums, and how Amon Amarth just shadow dropped a new album this summer, without telling anyone, and that it was one of their better albums of the last few efforts. Then I thought that […]
In most of my reviews, I typically state something like “if you like [insert band name], then you must definitely check this album/band out“. For the most part, I feel pretty good about those statements. But never have I felt so vehemently bullish or confident about what I am about to say… If you like […]
I’ve been listening to and reviewing albums from Scotland’s Scordatura since their 2013 debut, Torment the Weak, and follow-up Mass Failure in 2020. I’ve enjoyed them, but can’t say they really grab me, and frankly, I always thought Man Must Die was the superior Scottish death metal act. Well, with Man Must Die and the […]
Solo French artist Antoine Scholtès has been productive with his Inherits the Void projects with an EP and 3 albums since 2021, and the 4th album, The Silent Abscission, was released earlier this summer. On album number 4, he is again joined by some session players, who are pretty well known; drummer Nico Muller (ex-Otargos, ex- […]
Sweden’s Sarcasm has been knocking about since 1992, starting out as a death metal band, but as they progressed, they changed their sound to a more melodic black metal sound similar to Dissection, Necrophobic, Unanimated, Naglfar, etc. Their last album, Mourninghoul, was back in 2024, which I never got around to hearing despite being familiar with […]
Even though I have SiriusXM in my truck, I don’t often listen to it, unless I’m with the spousal unit listening to the Lithium channel, or just too lazy to connect my phone and listen to Spotify or all the promos I have on my phone. But occasionally I’ll throw on Liquid Metal just to […]
After unveiling a new lineup and a slightly heavier, darker sound on the 2024 Inane Ducum EP, Canada’s epic /symphonic black metal act Atavistia is back with a new full-length album, and their style has changed again, albeit a little more subtly. The band has always been a Wintersun/Ensiferum-worshipping entity, but now, with a distinct […]
We have covered Chicago’s death metal veterans a lot here at Teeth of TeethoftheDivine. I mean a lot; 3 interviews, 5 album reviews. I personally haven’t really dug into them since 2011’s Kill on Command, still their best album in my humble opinion, and I have not reviewed them since 2013’s Terror Regime. They released […]
Colorado’s Stormkeep had a nice little glow up on their debut album, Tales of Othertime, back in 2021. The symphonic black metal band with members of Wayfarer and Blood Incantation put the genre and world on notice that the US has indeed entered the chat. But then nothing for 5 years, other than an instrumental […]
Slovakian blackened death metal act Goholor (enochian for ‘ascend’) has been around since 2016, but Locus Damnatorum is their debut album. Either way, they are new to me, but on this debut, they have dropped one of my favorite albums of the year so far. Leaning a little more into the death side of blackened […]
After a 12-year layoff, Germany’s preeminent Swedish-style death metal veterans, Fleshcrawl (who I am now learning were called both Morgoth and Suffocation back when they started, and finally switched to Fleshcrawl for obvious reasons), reemerged into the fray with the solid Into the Catacombs of Flesh back in 2019. And now, after 7 years, some […]
I’ll give you one guess what a new super group featuring Devin Swank on vocals (Sanguisugabogg), Eric Morotti on drums (Suffocation), Derek Boyer on bass (Suffocation), and Rich Nagasawa on guitar (ex-Dehumanized) AND features guest vocal spots from Frank Mullen (ex-Suffocation) sounds like? Yeah, if this thing were any more New Yawk, it would say “I’m […]
Back on my review of Wielded Steel‘s killer Sins of Your Domain EP, I rattled off a bunch of hardcore bands I had/have been jamming, including two French bands: Glassbone whose Ruthless Savagery EP is also killer, and Beyond The Styx, who have been around for a while with 3 other albums and some EPs […]