As I stated in my review of the excellent Obšar EP, I love receiving unsolicited, blind requests from obscure, completely unknown (to me) bands for us to review their material. So when I got an email from Moscow’s Renunciation, asking us to cover their second album, Make Babylon Great Again, I checked the band’s music […]

The promotional email for the sophomore effort from this Danish act (named after the Hebrew word for wanderer?) stated it was melodic black metal for ‘fans of Behemoth, Hate, Mgla, Belphegor, Anaal Nathrak’. Not sure I could have been lured in any harder if they had a six pack of IPA beer, Crunchie candy bars, […]

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 […]

I grabbed this promo as it is the same label behind the excellent Pathogenic album that came out earlier this year. And also because the ‘For Fans of’ band listing was this: The Black Dahlia Murder, Dimmu Borgir, Prayer for Cleansing, At The Gates. Ok, ya got me. So yeah, an altogether different beast than […]

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 […]

Oh man, this shit right here is fire. Denver’s Victim of Fire has been around since 2016, and this is their third album. They describe themselves as ‘Stadium Crust’, whatever that is. But what I’m hearing is an utterly nostalgic throwback to the early second wave of metalcore, when Maiden, At The Gates, and dual […]

It’s been 5 years since Las Vegas Brutal Death metal act Cordyceps released their debut, Betrayal. And while I feel like they missed the boat by not releasing this album a little sooner, at the same time as The Last of Us TV show (where the Cordyceps mushroom is the cause of the apocalypse), as […]

After a few albums of top-tier deathcore, Signs of the Swarm earned their spot as one of the genre’s better bands, with 2021’s Absolvere being their very peak in my humble opinion. But on 2023’s Amongst the Low and the Empty, along with a jump from Unique Leader to Century Media, came a slight development. While […]

I’m always down for some French black metal on the always reliable Antiq Records. That said, the last releases I dug into were the non-French act, Belnejoum, and the harrowing semi-French depressive black metal of Enterre Vivant. Both enjoyable, but not the usual regal, medieval-sounding French black metal I have come to expect from the […]

Finland’s Sarastus (Finnish for ‘Dawning’) was formed in 2014 and has 2 full-length albums since then. I grabbed the promo for Agony Eternal as I have been on a back metal/melodic black metal kick of late, and the promo dropped terms like ‘anthemic hooks are at the forefront’, ‘melodies spiral with nightsky fervor’, and ‘too […]

I consider myself a fairly well versed JRR Tolkien/ Lord of the Rings fan, but there are those that are just next level, Stephen Colbert types that are just way beyond me. and the duo that forms Anfauglir, Griss (guitars/vocals ) and Lord Bauglir (vocal/synths/drum programming) are in that category. Case and point; Anfauglir is […]

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 […]

Deliquesce (to liquefy during decomposition), is an Australian brutal/tech death project from Disentomb’s Adrian Cappelletti. He’s joined by vocalist James Cooper (ex-Incarnate), bassist Armando Wall and American session drummer Lyle Cooper (Mithridatum, Humanity Is A Cancer). And it’s a bit different from the hulking, brutal death metal of Disentomb, as Deliquesce is even more technical […]

Full disclosure: I grabbed this promo as I thought it was a new album from Finland’s doom/death band Noumena. Then I actually read the promo, saw some stuff about a female singer and production/mastering credits from some folks responsible for Lacuna Coil. At that moment, I braced for the worst, preparing for some sugary female-fronted […]

Loosely meaning ‘The Wild Hunt’ from Norwegian lore, it is the band name that got me to check out the promo for the third album from this Californian, not Norwegian duo, as well as that kickass stained glass dragon on the cover. Further digging revealed that this used to be a one-man project with Jay […]

I’ve said it many times; We get TONS of promotional emails here at Teeth. I try to check them all out, and make sure the staff here have access to them, but a lot slip through the cracks (my apologies if you have sent something to us, and we never got back to you or […]

Boy, Seek & Strike is snatching up all the newer, younger orchestral/blackened/symphonic deathcore acts, aren’t they? Existentialist, To Obey A Tyrant, Ruins of Perception, When Plagues Collide, and the big one, Immortal Disfigurement, etc, adding to the established likes of Assemble the Chariots and Downfall of Mankind. The UK’s Existentialist has been around for a […]

Patristic is a side project of Hideous Divinity guitarist Enrico Schettino. The band name comes from the study of early Christian writings and scholars, and the album name comes from instructions given to a person in preparation for a Christian baptism.  He is joined by drummer Nicolàs Petri (Chronic Hate, Mass Carnage, Hellion) and vocalist […]

British bruisers Malevolence have been knocking about the UK scene for over a decade now, and after two self-released albums, got signed to Nuclear Blast for their third effort, Malicious Intent, back in 2022. That was my first exposure to them. Despite hailing from the depths of darkest South Yorkshire, in England, you’d be forgiven […]

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 […]

Re-recordings are a bit of an issue for me. On one side, sometimes replacing a bad production is a necessity; sometimes it’s not really warranted. And sometimes, a classic just needs a fresh lick of paint. There’s a little of all of the above going on here as Mirai Kawashima has decided to completely re-record […]

Can someone explain to me how Shadow of Intent is unsigned? Especially considering the absolute proliferation of the symphonic/blackened deathcore genre of late? Are the band members complete dicks? Are they independently wealthy? Do they hate labels? Imperium Delirium is the band’s 5th self-released effort, their third after dropping the Halo video game-inspired themes from […]

Battlespells, the second album from this Finnish duo, named after a Vlad Tepes song, was one of the more authentic 90s styled black metal albums of recent memory, up there with releases from Northwind Wolves, Mist From the Mountains, Pestilent Hex, and I Am The Night over the last few years. And even with a […]

I keep waiting for the Blackened/Symphonic deathcore movement to burn out, but nope, it appears 2025 is going to be an even better year than 2020 and 2025. Of course, the 800 lb gorilla in the room will be the forthcoming album from Lorna Shore, and then a 600 lb gorilla with Shadow of Intent. […]

Do you miss early/mid-00s ‘Myspace’ deathcore? Still jamming All Shall Perish, As Blood Runs Black, Embrace the End, The Red Chord, Salt the Wound, Knights of the Abyss, Animosity, The Number 12 Looks Like You, Rose Funeral, My Bitter End, and Dead to Fall? Well, Im right there with you- that era was my mutha-fucking […]