Posts Tagged ‘Erik T’
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › B on Thursday, July 25th, 2024
Back in 2012, I reviewed The Abrogation from Alabama’s Chaos Invocation, a damn solid piece of ripping death metal. But then nothing for over 10 years. I was recently curious about the status of the band it turns out vocalist Chris White (also of Blood Stained Dusk) and guitarist/bassist Cam Pinkerton actually left the band […]
Tags: 2024, Black Hole Deity, Blackened Death Metal, Erik T, Everlasting Spew Records, Review
Posted in Frontpage Feature, Reviews, Reviews › S on Monday, July 22nd, 2024
This summer, two pretty revered veteran, symphonic black metal acts will be releasing their ninth albums (both on June 28th no less!). Both released their debut albums in 1996 and both waited 6-7 years between their last albums and these new releases. One is Norway’s Limbonic Art, who released their debut The Moon In Scorpio […]
Tags: 2024, Erik T, Hammerheart Records, Review, Sear Bliss, Symphonic Black Metal
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › S on Friday, July 19th, 2024
Wow. Here is some really creative, unique black/death metal from a Belgian band I know nothing about other than they have 1 prior album under their belt. The actual ‘Shiva Hypothesis’ is a theory concerning extinction-level events and meteors, but the band is a 4 piece with ties to various other Belgian death metal acts, […]
Tags: 2024, Black/Death Metal, Erik T, Review, Self-Released, The Shiva Hypothesis
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › M on Tuesday, July 16th, 2024
Cripes, here is another band like Greece’s Sun of Nothing, that I have not heard in fucking ages. With Sun of Nothing there was a 21-year gap between their debut …and Voices, Words, Faces, Complete the Dream way back in 2003 and this year’s Maze. With French bruisers Morgue it was 2002’s utterly devastating The […]
Tags: 2024, Death Metal, Erik T, Godz Ov War Productions, Grindcore, Morgue
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › C on Friday, July 12th, 2024
Formerly known as Epitasis, Chicago’s Carrion Throne is listed as a Doom/Death band on Metal-Archives, but after hearing this debut EP, I’m more inclined to list them as a more Brutal/Slam Death metal band more in line with Devourment and Wormed. The 6 songs here (4 new songs and 2 demo songs from 2022) are […]
Tags: 2024, Brutal Death Metal, Carrion Throne, Death Metal, Erik T, Lacerated Enemy Records, Review, Slam
Posted in Frontpage Feature, Reviews, Reviews › L on Monday, July 8th, 2024
Early in their career, the Norwegian duo Limbonic Art was close to being mentioned in the same circles as the likes of Emperor, Arcturus, Borknagar, and such. Their 1996 debut The Moon in Scorpio and 1997 follow up In Abhorrence Dementia, were heralded as near classics in the symphonic black metal genre. However, the band […]
Tags: 2024, Black Metal, Erik T, Kyrck Productions & Armour, Limbonic Art, Review
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › W on Tuesday, July 2nd, 2024
Sweden’s Wormwood burst onto the melodic black metal scene with 2017’s excellent Ghostlands, followed up by Nattarvett, the first of a planned trilogy of albums. Part two of the trilogy, 2021s Arkivet saw the band take a melancholic downturn befitting the tale of mankind’s general shittiness. I was hoping for a return to the more […]
Tags: 2024, Black Lodge Records, Erik T, Melodic Black Metal, Review, Wormwood
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › H on Friday, June 28th, 2024
Henry Kane (AKA Jonny Petterson from Wombbath) has released two fine grindcore/crust albums under this Poltergeist-named project; 2017s Den förstörda människans rike, and 2020s appropriately named Age of the Idiot. Both delivering furious, Nasum-ish-styled Swedish grind/crust. However, his third release is a completely different beast altogether. and you should probably brace for it a little bit. […]
Tags: 2024, Atmospheric Black Metal, Erik T, Grindcore, Henry Kane, Review, Selfmadegod Records
Posted in Frontpage Feature, Reviews, Reviews › U on Monday, June 17th, 2024
From the 2007 tech death debut, Of Fracture and Failure, New Zealand’s Ulcerate has been one of the death metal’s most consistently elite bands with 5 albums since. The band has evolved from the pure tech death of the debut into a murky, dissonant, almost black death band (they are on Debemor Morti – a […]
Tags: 2024, Black/Death Metal, Debemur Morti Productions, Erik T, Review, Technical Death Metal, Ulcerate
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › N on Friday, June 14th, 2024
Devourer of All is the second album from Belgian black metal band Nyrak, (I could not find who or what a ‘Nyrak‘ is) a new band to me, but based on this excellent second effort they will be a regular band in my playlist and a band with a bright future. Playing a blend of […]
Tags: 2024, Atmospheric Black Metal, Erik T, Nyrak, Phoenix Mortis Productions, Review, Symphonic Black Metal
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › S on Tuesday, June 11th, 2024
Thanks to this YouTube group, I spent much of 2023 discovering newer symphonic black metal, or at least releases in the genre that aren’t from the golden age, or releases that somehow I completely missed from 2010 on. I found superb bands like Spain’s Ensom, Canada’s Obscuris Romancia, Russia’s Skylord, Cuba’s Mephisto, Finland’s Shade Empire, […]
Tags: 2024, Erik T, Fetzner Death Records, Review, Suffering Souls, Symphonic Black Metal
Posted in Frontpage Feature, Reviews, Reviews › P on Monday, June 10th, 2024
18 years, 12 albums, 9 labels, 8 vocalists. You have to hand it to the lone remaining founding member/ drummer Dave Astor; he is certainly persistent and keeps shuffling lineups and releasing albums on multiple labels, even with all the above he’s seemingly settled on a somewhat stable lineup for a few albums now (Obie […]
Tags: 2014, Agonia Records, Brutal Death Metal, Erik T, Pathology, Review, Slam Metal
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › U on Wednesday, June 5th, 2024
The last Christian metal record I covered was Voluntary Mortification‘s Suffer to Rise back in 2020, which also happened to be Rottweiler Records, which is fast becoming the premier label for extreme Christian Music with bands like A Hill to Die Upon, Death Requisite, xDOULOSx, Krig, Desolate Tomb, Symphony of Heaven and such, much like […]
Tags: (Un)Worthy, 2024, Christian, Deathcore, Erik T, Review, Rottweiler Records
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › D on Friday, May 31st, 2024
Mining-obsessed German duo Dauþuz (‘Death’) has been on my radar for a while now. I initially heard them on their third album, Monvmentvm in 2019, and then in 2021, they crept onto my year-end list with Vom schwarzen Schmied. I wondered how they would, like other specifically themed bands (i.e. Alestorm) how they would continue […]
Tags: 2024, Amor Fati, Amor Fati Productions, Atmospheric Black Metal, Dauþuz, Erik T, Review
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › M on Tuesday, May 28th, 2024
I grabbed the promo for this release because A) it was on Antiq Records, home of the finest medieval black metal, and B) the band moniker reminded me of French folk metal act Boisson Divine, whose La Halha I reviewed back in 2020, and rather enjoyed. Well, lo and behold Moisson Livide (‘Angry/Livid Harvest’) is […]
Tags: 2024, Antiq Records, Black Metal, Erik T, Folk Metal, Moisson Livide, Reveiw
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › B on Thursday, May 23rd, 2024
Despite being around since 2016, Beneath the Blazing Abyss is the Finnish band’s debut and boy, is it an excellent, pummeling example of death/doom metal that is a very, very impressive first effort. If you enjoy mid-tempo trundling death with sprinkles of doom like Temple of Void, Grave, Malignant Altar, Vore, Hooded Menace, Frozen Soul […]
Tags: 2024, Baron, Death Metal, Erik T, Review, Transcending Obscurity Records
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › A on Tuesday, May 21st, 2024
I don’t know how I missed the debut of this project formed by Mark Reed, keyboardist from Winterfylleth, one of the UK’s very best black metal exports of the last 15 years. They released an album in 2022 called Take Up My Bones, which I shall immediately be procuring after hearing Untouched by Fire. Like […]
Tags: 2024, Arð, Doom Metal, Erik T, Prophecy Productions, Review
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › V on Friday, May 17th, 2024
Although one of the USA’s early purveyors of European symphonic black metal in the late 90s and early 00s along with Dragonlord, Scholomance, Dreamscapes of the Perverse, Epicurean, Venificum, Santus, and such, Austin TX’s Vesperian Sorrow and most of those listed) never quite garnered a ton of attention. The Europeans just did it better with […]
Tags: 2024, Black Lion Records, Erik T, Review, Symphonic Black Metal, Vesperian Sorrow
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › S on Monday, May 13th, 2024
Non Stop Ruthless Crushing …..what???? I feel like there’s another word that was forgotten here. Anxiety? Diarrhea? Parental disappointment? I keed, I keed What we have here is a re-release of a 2023 effort from this Texas act formed by Jason Ramsey (notably from Baton Rouge’s Suture, who released solid albums on Deepsend Records, Unmatched […]
Tags: 2024, Death Metal, Erik T, Review, Skulldozer, Wormholedeath
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › D, Reviews › S on Friday, May 10th, 2024
Synestia is a new symphonic deathcore duo consisting of Minnesota’s Sam Melchior (all instruments, writing) and Finland’s Ville Hokkanen (vocals). In 2022 they released their fantastic debut album, Malificium, but it was digital only and got kind of bulldozed by that year’s slew of stellar releases in the genre from Shadow of Intent, Worm Shepherd, […]
Tags: 2024, Deathcore, Disembodied Tyrant, Erik T, Review, Self-Released, Symphonic, Synestia
Posted in Frontpage Feature, Reviews, Reviews › K on Monday, May 6th, 2024
Listen, I was Korpiklaani fanboy for many years loving the band’s boozy folk metal anthems like “Beer, Beer” and “Happy Little Boozer”, but somewhere around 2008s Korven Kuningas up to 2015s Noita I started losing interest in the band and their albums. The band seemed to get a bit of a hangover, lose their fun […]
Tags: 2024, Erik T, Folk Metal, Korpiklaani, Nuclear Blast Records, Review
Posted in Frontpage Feature, Reviews, Reviews › D on Monday, April 29th, 2024
At first glance, album number 13 from one of death metal’s true institutions Deicide, appears to be yet another by-the-numbers Deicide album that Bentons (yes I used it as a verb), blasphemes and blasts its way through another effort of Christ-hating death metal. And to some extent it does. It is most certainly a Deicide […]
Tags: 2024, Death Metal, Deicide, Erik T, Reigning Phoenix Music, Review
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › V on Tuesday, April 23rd, 2024
This spring, two US-based, keyboard-heavy, melodic death metal bands will be releasing their second albums respectively. One, Philadelphia’s Malphas with Portal (via M-Theory Audio), and this album from Seattle’s more old-school influenced Veriteras. And it’s not even close to who the winner is as The Dark Horizon is absolutely stunning. Part of my enjoyment of […]
Tags: 2024, Erik T, Melodic Death Metal, Review, Self-Released, Veriteras
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › N on Friday, April 19th, 2024
4 years ago I reviewed the debut album, Decay from Glasgow’s Necrocracy and it was a rough and ready, solid release of no-frills, burly black metal. And then out of the blue, the band emails me and tells me about their new digital and cassette-only release they are dropping. So apparently the material on Predestiny […]
Tags: 2024, Black/Death Metal, Erik T, Necrocracy, Review, Self-Released
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › M on Wednesday, April 17th, 2024
Remember bands like Nails, All Pigs Must Die, Trap Them and other Southern Lord bands of the mid 00s? That grimy, downturned, feedback laced Swedish death metal-meets hardcore and grind/d-beat sound that Gatecreeper , Fuming Mouth and such expanded on more recently? Well, the UKS Mastiff is here to take you back to that with […]
Tags: 2024, Erik T, Hardcore, Mastiff, MNRK Heavy, Review, Sludge Metal