Posts Tagged ‘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 Reviews, Reviews › E on Friday, March 17th, 2023
“While we all have lots of bands who influence still… we all rip off Meshuggah.” -Devin Townsend I mention this quote because, despite my opinion of them (I do not much like them, kind sir), their influence and impact on modern heavy metal cannot be overstated. This is not to say Entheos has or ever […]
Tags: 2023, Entheos, J Mays, Metal Blade Records, Progressive Metal/Djent, Review
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › S on Wednesday, March 15th, 2023
War is hell. It has the power to change borders and boundaries, tear nations apart and displace millions at a time. What India’s Sarcoptes has done with Prayers to Oblivion, is break down five aspects of war to create fifty minutes of thrashing, blackened military insanity. It’s an album that seems daunting at first, the […]
Tags: 2023, Black Metal, Jeremy Beck, Review, Sarcoptes, Symphonic Black Metal, Transcending Obscurity Records
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 Frontpage Feature, Reviews, Reviews › G on Monday, March 13th, 2023
France’s tech-death metal gods, Gorod, return with The Orb – their seventh album. Holy smokes I did not realize how time has flown by and the band is self-releasing this through Bandcamp. For me, the best tech-death metal bands are First Fragment, Gorod and Obscura. I know, I know there’s like a bajillion of tech-death […]
Tags: 2023, Base Productions, Frank Rini, Gorod, Review, Technical Death Metal
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › N on Thursday, March 9th, 2023
I get to stare at possibly my best tattoo every day, which is for Skeletonwitch, which sometimes give me the skeleton itch. Meaning I want to hear new music from the boys. They’re from my hometown and mean a great deal to me, all of them lead different lives now, and getting music from them […]
Tags: 2023, Black/Thrash Metal, J Mays, Necropanther, Review, Self-Released
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, March 7th, 2023
This collaboration of Obsequiae and Inexorum members has their take on Melodic Death Metal with elements of the Swedish scene – all wrapped up in a 90’s classic sound, that In Flames would be proud of…well this album kicks some major ass! With 10 songs in 39 minutes, “In Yearning, Alive”, starts abruptly, with a […]
Tags: 20 Buck Spin, 2023, Frank Rini, Majesties, Melodic Death Metal, Review
Posted in Frontpage Feature, Reviews, Reviews › E on Monday, March 6th, 2023
In 1994, I was a twenty something working at Best Buy. We had received a copy of the Emperor/Enslaved massive split Hordanes Land and it caught my eye. I had no clue what Black Metal was, had never heard of the genre at all. Of course, Emperor comes first, and those four tracks alone had […]
Tags: 2023, Black/Progressive Metal, Enslaved, Jeremy Beck, Nuclear Blast Records, Review
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › A on Saturday, March 4th, 2023
If In Flames‘ Foregone has whetted your appetite for Swedish, 1994-1997 era melodic death metal nostalgia, then let’s continue your meal with another band from that era, Falkenberg’s Ablaze My Sorrow. Knocking around the same times as their clear peers (then and now) In Flames and Dark Tranquility, Ablaze My Sorrow was a productive, if […]
Tags: 2023, Ablaze My Sorrow, Black Lion Records, Melodic Death Metal, Review
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › P on Saturday, March 4th, 2023
Oklahoma’s PeelingFlesh was introduced to me relatively recent by our dear site owner Erik T. Their 2022 Slampilation Mixtape compilation combined all their previous singles and EP’s and the band has been busy writing since they formed in 2021. The band has yet to release a full-length album because now they grace us with this […]
Tags: 2023, Brutal Death Metal, Frank Rini, PeelingFlesh, Review, Slam, Vile Tapes
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › M on Thursday, March 2nd, 2023
World War One was, without a doubt, the most brutal war in Military History. In terms of lives lost and concerning the horror of trench warfare, was the battle of the Somme. It’s in those blood-soaked forests and fields that form the setting for Feuerwalze and those trenches where thousands lost their lives. What better […]
Tags: 2023, Black Metal, Jeremy Beck, Minenwerfer, Osmose Productions, Review
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › O on Wednesday, March 1st, 2023
I have been looking forward to this one. First off, the cover artwork is fantastic. I am going to want to mail order this and get a shirt as well. “Demonic Totem I Am” gets the album going. The opening riff hook has a Deeds of Flesh Vibe to it and even more so when […]
Tags: 2023, Brutal Death Metal, Nick K, Ominous Scriptures, Review, Willowtip Records
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 › I on Monday, February 27th, 2023
If you get naked, cry, and sacrifice babies at the altar of death doom, you probably like Insomnium. So, I guess the GOP can start looking for pedophiles at their shows (or in their mirrors). I’m only here to help. I’m no fanboy, but I do enjoy their output, particularly my favorite of theirs, One […]
Tags: 2023, Century Media Records, Insomnium, J Mays, Melodic Death/Doom, Review
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › F on Thursday, February 23rd, 2023
Funeral Winds has been around for a long fucking time. This makes it a bit daunting to cover a band with a massive discography as theirs (his), whatever. Funeral Winds has been the work of Hellchrist Xul, since 1992. An incredibly talented psychopath, whose heart beats with the elemental rage of 90s Black Metal; his […]
Tags: 2023, Black Metal, Funeral Winds, Jeremy Beck, Osmose Productions, Review
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › T on Wednesday, February 22nd, 2023
Turbid North delivering a new album takes me back to when Eyes Alive was released 7 years ago. So young, naïve, and infinitely more fuckable. Unless you’re a cougar. Not the animal, though. I’ve found no parallels. Much like the awful tenure of my life from then to now, it hit me hard when I […]
Tags: 2023, Death Metal, J Mays, Review, Self-Released, Turbid North
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › S on Tuesday, February 21st, 2023
2018 saw the release of the debut album Warning Blast, by international band Siege of Power. I mean with a band name, named after one of the best Napalm Death songs ever-you cannot go wrong. Featuring members of Asphyx, Autopsy, Grand Supreme Blood Court, Hail of Bullets, Infidel Reich…I mean I can go on and […]
Tags: 2023, Death Metal, Frank Rini, Metal Blade Records, Review, Siege of Power
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 › H on Friday, February 17th, 2023
The first time I heard The Ukraine’s Hate Forest was back in the early 2000s. I had found a Russian MP3 site that had Arkona, Nokturnal Mortum, Lucifugum, Astrofaes, and hundreds of other European bands I had never heard of; Hate Forest is one of those bands that I latched onto because with a name […]
Tags: 2023, Black Metal, Hate Forest, Jeremy Beck, Osmose Productions, Review
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › T on Thursday, February 16th, 2023
I’ve been working through writer’s block for months now, and nowhere near my normal standard of productivity. I’m at the stage where I am wondering if I have anything to add to the heavy music stratosphere, or if anyone cares about my voice. You know, existential bullshit. Anyway, here I am, a couple of dick […]
Tags: 20 Buck Spin, 2023, Death/Doom Metal, J Mays, Review, Tribunal
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › A on Wednesday, February 15th, 2023
Atomwinter is a veteran German death metal band, who I have not year heard, despite having three albums under their belt since 2011. Their last effort was 2018s Catacombs, and in the 5-year gap since then, they have got themselves a new vocalist in Florian Bauer, and whoo boy is he a beast and makes […]
Tags: 2023, Atomwinter, Death Metal, Erik T, Review, Trollzorn Records
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › S on Tuesday, February 14th, 2023
Two years ago, I reviewed Sanguisugabogg’s Tortured Whole debut album and previous to that I reviewed their Pornographic Seizures EP. With their debut album, I said “Sanguisugabogg’s blow-up throughout the underground metal scene is really only just the beginning”. And that is precisely what happened with the band right after the release of the debut. […]
Tags: 2023, Century Media Records, Death Metal, Frank Rini, Review, Sanguisugabogg
Posted in Frontpage Feature, Reviews, Reviews › I on Monday, February 13th, 2023
Imagine, if you would, finding a way to beat the odds and make a legitimate career for yourself in music. Dope! You’ve already lived out the dream of myriads of artists around the world. But not only are you making a living, you’re literally spearheading an entire musical movement – laying a foundation and becoming […]
Tags: 2023, In Flames, Melodic Death Metal, Nuclear Blast Records, Review, Steve K
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