Posts Tagged ‘Erik T’
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › V on Tuesday, May 30th, 2023
So at 2023s midpoint a few bands and their respective debuts are arguably vying for the year’s best Swedish death metal release (with Iron Flesh Church of the Dead, Angerot and Wretched Fate certainly in the conversation for non debuts). One, Come, Sweet Death’s, hacking, slashing Dismember homage, Imperishable. And two, the debut from Swtizerland’s […]
Tags: 2023, Death Metal, Erik T, Review, Swedish Death Metal, Transcending Obscurity Records, Vomitheist
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › P on Friday, May 26th, 2023
OK, there is a lot to get to here; Pronostic is a Canadian progressive/melodic technical death metal project that hasn’t released anything since 2015s , An Atomic Decision, and before that their 2012 debut Deviated Inner Spectrum. The project is the brainchild of both guitarists/vocalists Alexandre Lauzon and Charles Pilotte, both relative unknowns in the […]
Tags: 2023, Erik T, Pronostic, Review, Self-Released, Technical Death Metal
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › A on Tuesday, May 23rd, 2023
From 2004 to 2017 Wintersun, the bloated,much-maligned, crowd-funded (begged) project of Jari Mäenpää has produced 3 albums and has released nothing since 2017s The Forest Seasons, other than a few compilations and single. (despite seemingly asking for money eery few months) Since 2017, Canada’s Atavistia has released 3 quality albums including 2020s excellent The Winter […]
Tags: 2023, Atavistia, Erik T, Review, Self-Released, Symphonic Black Metal
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › F on Wednesday, May 17th, 2023
I haven’t been super excited about death/doom metal and its subgenres, for a while now, heck I completely missed the Shape of Despair album from last year, and they were one of my absolute faves in the genre back in the day. Heck, the new Insomnium, barely registered with me. But in 2020, Colorado’s Fires […]
Tags: Death/Doom Metal, Erik T, Fires In The Distance, Melodic Death/Doom, Prosthetic Records, Review
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › C on Wednesday, May 10th, 2023
Caedeous is an ‘extreme, symphonic black metal’ band hailing from Lison, Portugal, and due to my addiction to anything symphonic as well as my general love of symphonic black metal, I had to check out their fourth album. And not being familiar with the band I was a bit taken aback. Instead of the usual […]
Tags: 2023, Black Sunset, Caedeous, Erik T, MDD Records, Symphonic Black Metal
Posted in Frontpage Feature, Reviews, Reviews › G on Monday, May 1st, 2023
Italy’s Graveworm has been around since the mid/late 90s, plying their form of gothic/ melodic black/death metal, and by all accounts have been a pretty respectable act over their career. They found themselves on Nuclear Blast Records with 200s Engraved in Black when the label was saturated with the likes of Agathodaimon, Godgory, Sculpture, Crematory […]
Tags: 2023, AFM Records, Erik T, Graveworm, Melodic Death Metal, Review, Symphonic Black Metal
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 › F on Tuesday, April 25th, 2023
Ya know, I had completely forgotten about this North Carolina duo. This is surprising considering I rather enjoyed the debut from a few years ago, and the fact my enthusiasm, some would even say fanboyish obsession with any sort of metal with symphonic/orchestral elements. Throw in another couple of my weaknesses- history/mythological tales and modern, […]
Tags: 2023, Erik T, Foretoken, Prosthetic Records, Review, Technical Death Metal
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › D on Friday, April 21st, 2023
Dystertol is a veteran Austrian melodic death band with 2 albums under their belt since 2014, but as is often the case in this vast realm of metal, they are a new act to me. Classifying them is difficult, as while they are certainly a melodic death metal band in the vein of say newer […]
Tags: 2023, Black Sunset, Dystersol, Erik T, MDD Records, Melodic Death Metal, Modern Metal, Review
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › S on Tuesday, April 18th, 2023
German Christian death metal band Sacrificium has been around since the 90s, released their debut album in 2002, and have released 2 albums since then, with 2013s Prey for Your Gods being their last offering. And I say this because up until Oblivion, I had no idea these guys even existed- even in the Christian […]
Tags: 2023, Christian, Erik T, Melodic Death Metal, Nordic Mission, Review, Sacrificium
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › E on Friday, April 14th, 2023
One look at the Realms of Chaos/War Master Era Bolt Thrower-inspired logo from the multinational (mostly Germany, Iceland, USA) act, Extermination Order, and you know exactly what you are getting with the 5 songs on the war themed EP, The Siege of Ascalon. Throw in the fact that 2/3 of the German contingent of Extermination Order […]
Tags: 2023, Death Metal, Erik T, Extermination Order, War Anthem Records
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › D on Tuesday, April 11th, 2023
Germany’s environmental warriors, Downfall of Gaia has been one of my reliable go-tos’s when it comes to modern post-black metal, appearing on my year-end list a couple of times since 2012s Suffocating in a Swarm of Cranes). But when I saw the cover for album number 6, I got major Deafheaven vibes and hoped the […]
Tags: 2023, Downfall of Gaia, Erik T, Metal Blade Records, Post Black Metal, Review
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 Reviews, Reviews › T on Thursday, April 6th, 2023
Tribe of Pazuzu is a new international supergroup of sorts. Formed by bassist/vocalist Nick Sagias who was in Soulstorm and Overthrow back in the day as well as a quick stint in Pestilence in 1990. However, he is joined by some inarguably bigger names on this project’s debut, namely Flo Mournier of Cryptopsy fame on […]
Tags: 2023, Black/Death Metal, Erik T, Review, Tribe of Pazuzu, Vic Records
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › I on Wednesday, April 5th, 2023
Portland’s newcomers Idolatrous are here to answer the age-old question… what would it sound like if Amon Amarth were from Oregon and used epic keyboards/synths in their chunky form of Viking-based melo-death? Well, it sounds fucking amazing, and certainly, if you are a bit tired of Amon Amarth‘s tried and tested, safer last couple of […]
Tags: 2023, Erik T, Idolatrous, Melodic Death Metal, Review, Viking Metal, Wormholedeath
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › F on Monday, April 3rd, 2023
I haven’t listened to anything from Rogga Johannson (Wombbath, Revolting, Catacomb, Reek, Massacre, Paganizer, Ribspreader, etc), in a while, so I thought id check the latest releases from his Furnace project (along with Catacomb bassist Peter Svensson), as its one I had not heard before. Big mistake….. as it was like a recovering drug addict […]
Tags: 2023, Erik T, Furnace, Melodic Death Metal, Obelisk Polaris Productions, Review, Rogga Johansson
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › W on Friday, March 31st, 2023
“Sweden’s Wretched Fate is a new band formed by members of melodic death metal band Non Divine Sun, and their debut album, Fleshletting is the album that Bloodbath should have released last year.” That paragraph above was the opening paragraph from my review of the 2019 Wretched Fate debut, Fleshletting. And with the band’s second album, Carnal Heresy, I’m feeling […]
Tags: 2023, Death Metal, Erik T, Redefining Darkness Records, Review, Swedish Death Metal, Wretched Fate
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › D on Thursday, March 30th, 2023
Much like last year’s solid Inhuman Depravity album, Depraved Murder is a new-ish ( they had a debut back in 2015) band from an obscure country, where as soon as the album started playing, I know the primary influence immediately. But where Inhuman Depravity was from Turkey and was an obviously Sinister-loving band, Depraved Murder […]
Tags: 2023, Brutal Death Metal, Comatose Music, Depraved Murder, Erik T, Review
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 Reviews, Reviews › C on Friday, March 24th, 2023
Video game and D & D-obsessed, Canadian husband and wife duo, Crown of Madness is back to follow up their enjoyable 2022 EP, The Void, and lay the final piece of groundwork for their upcoming full-length album. Continuing the Ulcerate-styled artful dissonance they created on The Void, Elemental Binding shows a duo in lockstep with […]
Tags: 2023, Crown of Madness, Death Metal, Erik T, Review, Self-Released
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › D on Tuesday, March 21st, 2023
The second album from the duo of the excellently named vocalist/guitarist ‘Wolven Deadsoul’ and drummer E.H, was a completely blind grab for me. But when it threw around words like ‘Swedish death metal’, ‘Asphyx’, ‘Grave’, ‘Benediction’, and such, I had to check it out despite the aggressively purple cover.. I was greeted with some excellent […]
Tags: 2023, Cryptorium9, Dead Soul Alliance, Death Metal, Erik T, Review, Swedish Death Metal
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › W on Tuesday, March 14th, 2023
I initially grabbed this promo strictly due to the striking cover photo (courtesy of Tatiana Lebedeva), literally not knowing anything about the band or album, other than that it mentioned depressive and one-man black metal in the promo blurb. So with the band’s moniker, album title, and song titles like “I Choose to Die”, No […]
Tags: 2023, Black/Death Metal, Death/Doom Metal, Erik T, Review, Tragedy Productions, Winds of Tragedy
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › C on Wednesday, March 8th, 2023
Carathis is a one-man project helmed by one, Erech Leleth, who also serves in Grandeur as well as Ancient Mastery, Narzissus, and Golden Blood. He’s been pretty prolific since 2021 with a hand full of splits and EPs and Personal Records has taken two of his latest EPs, The Amethyst Fortress and The Moonstone Temple, […]
Tags: 2022, Atmospheric Black Metal, Carathis, Erik T, Personal Records, Review
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › M on Tuesday, February 28th, 2023
I’ve got a pretty long history with Scotland’s death metal veterans Man Must Die. From covering the band and their 2003 demo in Metal Maniacs, reviewing their massive 2004 debut, ….Start Killing , for Digitalmetal.com, to their 2 Relapse Records releases, (The Human Condition and No Tolerance for Imperfection to Peace Was Never an Option […]
Tags: 2023, Death Metal, Distortion Music Group, Erik T, Man Must Die, Review
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