Posts Tagged ‘Review’
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › S on Thursday, February 13th, 2025
This Italian death metal band, Shrieking Demons, has come up with an album cover that is insanely awesome and it’s the first thing that drew me to this debut album, The Festering Dwellers. They released an EP in 2021, Diabolical Regurgitations, which was ok, however, this debut album is a lot of fun. 10 songs […]
Tags: 2025, Death Metal, Frank Rini, Review, Shrieking Demons, Transcending Obscurity Records
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › C on Wednesday, February 12th, 2025
Sometimes, an album contains all great songs, no filler, no skips. Sometimes an album has a few good songs. Sometimes you buy an album because you saw one good video on MTV Headbangers Ball in the 90s, and the rest is terrible. Sometimes an album has one really killer song that makes the whole thing […]
Tags: 2025, Atmospheric Black Metal, Corroding Soul, Erik T, Review, Self-Released
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › F on Tuesday, February 11th, 2025
I’ve grown a mammoth-sized chubby for Tech-Death in recent years. I covered oodles of it last year and this one is already shaping up to be a brutal year for Tech-Death. Allow me to introduce Fleshbore. These four crazy lads from Indianapolis have crafted a solid, beat down that will have your fucking brain leaking […]
Tags: 2025, Fleshbore, Jeremy Beck, Review, Technical Death Metal, Transcending Obscurity Records
Posted in Frontpage Feature, Reviews, Reviews › S on Monday, February 10th, 2025
Scotland’s Folk/Pagan Black Metal band Saor, under the sole guise of Andy Marshall, and guest musicians, return with Amidst the Ruins, their sixth album. This is their most adventurous and most expansive album to date. The 12+ minute title track leads the charge, opening this terrific album, with a long blast beat which has other […]
Tags: 2025, Atmospheric Black Metal, Frank Rini, Review, Saor, Season of Mist
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › B on Friday, February 7th, 2025
It’s usually a good sign when an album contains a church bell tolling in the distance: “For Whom the Bell Tolls” by Metallica and “Warriors of Modern Death” By Emperor and of course Iron Maiden’s “Hallowed Be Thy Name”. That’s just three that come to mind and yeah, there’s so many others but I’m here […]
Tags: 2025, Barshasketh, Black Metal, Jeremy Beck, Review, W.T.C Productions
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › M on Thursday, February 6th, 2025
2024 was a stellar year for German black metal. Albums from Asarhaddon, Opus Irae, Chaos Invocation, Kanonenfieber, Suffering Souls, Dauþuz, Far Beyond, Stiriah and Servant were all damn fine releases. But at the tail end of 2024, Mavorim released an album that I never really got to spend too much time with before the year ended, and it’s […]
Tags: 2025, Black Metal, Erik T, Mavorim, Purity Through Fire, Review
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › R on Wednesday, February 5th, 2025
2025 is a new year, right? I’d imagine this new year for those of us in the United States is kind of like opening a gift of jars in the mail, thinking “Oh, cool someone sent me these to support my growing interest in canning.” Of course, you open the first one and it’s farts. […]
Tags: 2025, Death Metal, J Mays, Rats of Gomorrah, Review, Testimony Records
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › P on Tuesday, February 4th, 2025
Finland is not the usual place where brutal slam death metal is released from. Yet here we are with the debut album from Putrid Defecation. The band has slung together some splits and ep’s over the last several years however Tales from the Toilet is their debut album. The band lists this as a full-length […]
Tags: 2025, Brutal Death Metal, Frank Rini, Putrid Defecation, Review, Slam, Stadin Rec
Posted in Frontpage Feature, Reviews, Reviews › O on Monday, February 3rd, 2025
Germany’s Obscura needs no introduction. They have resided near or atop the tech death heap since 2009’s Cosmogenesis. For me, they peaked with 2016s Akroasis, but all of their albums have been excellent, including their last effort, 2021s A Valediction, which saw former members Christian Munzer (ex-Necrophagist, ex-Spawn of Possession) and fretless bassist Jeroen Paul Thessling return […]
Tags: 2025, Erik T, Melodic Death Metal, Nuclear Blast Records, Obscura, Review, Technical Death Metal
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › I on Friday, January 31st, 2025
In this frozen wasteland, I bring a tale of a Black Metal horde hailing from Portugal and bringing the 90s spirit of Black Metal all the way from Norway. It creates a tapestry of hopelessness that matches the world climate; be it politics or the actual weather changing in catastrophic ways. Enter Irae. Formed in […]
Tags: 2025, Black Metal, Irae, Jeremy Beck, Review, Signal Rex
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › M on Thursday, January 30th, 2025
Mutagenic Host hails from London, England and is an up-and-coming death metal band, who released their The Genotoxic Demo in 2023. Their filthy and sludgy brand of death metal is impressive and they one-up their demo with their debut album – The Diseased Machine. 10 songs in 41 minutes and “Neurological Necrosis” starts things off […]
Tags: 2025, Death Metal, Frank Rini, Memento Mori, Mutagenic Host, Review
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › K on Wednesday, January 29th, 2025
Sometimes I step out of my comfort zone, it’s not often but when I do it tends to go extreme. Such is the case with Nu metal/metalcore act Knogjärn. This is definitely a different style and genre-wise; meaning that I’m in semi-uncharted waters… oh well, I’ve been in those before; so let’s get it going. […]
Tags: 2025, Indie Recordings, Jeremy Beck, Knogjarn, Metalcore, Nu Metal, Review
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › O on Tuesday, January 28th, 2025
I have been a fan of Spain’s Onirophagus for quite some time. I reviewed their 2013 debut album Prehuman and interviewed them for a different site, at that time. The band blends doom and death metal perfectly and it’s been some time since their last album, their second one from 2019 – Endarkenment (Illumination Through […]
Tags: 2025, Doom Metal, Doom/Death Metal, Frank Rini, Onirophagus, Personal Records, Review
Posted in Frontpage Feature, Reviews, Reviews › H on Monday, January 27th, 2025
You can virtually cut and paste my review of 2021’s Maere for this Austrian duo’s 6th album, as they are so locked into their despondent, post/ shoe gaze/ atmospheric black metal sound, it’s scary. That said, at a trim 67 minutes on 1 CD as opposed to Maere’s 2 CD, 84-ish minute affair, the band […]
Tags: 2025, AOP Records, Atmospheric Black Metal, Erik T, Harakiri For The Sky, Review
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › E on Friday, January 24th, 2025
For four albums now, Ex Deo, the Roman-themed symphonic death metal act from Kataklysm’s Maurizio Iacono has steadily improved from a lazy Kataklysm clone with keyboards to a pretty solid act. Well with a Switch of labels from Nalapm Records to Reigning Phoenix, here is a taster EP to celebrate the shift. After covering the […]
Tags: 2025, Death Metal, Erik T, Ex Deo, Reigning Phoenix Music, Review, Symphonic Metal
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › W on Friday, January 24th, 2025
The first time I heard Bolt Thrower was in their Realm of Chaos (Slaves to Darkness) from 1989. It turned my Metal mind to full tilt, opening up a whole other level of brutality and extremity. Living in England during the burgeoning Death Metal scene was a special time that I’ll always cherish being a […]
Tags: 2025, Death Metal, Jeremy Beck, Review, Self-Released, World Eaters
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › K on Friday, January 24th, 2025
Scotland is fucking beautiful. The Highlands are an amazing sight to behold, rolling, green, and absolutely vast. It’s a place that draws music from the people who in turn pull the rhythm from the very dirt itself. I’ve visited there and was stunned by the beauty. The lochs, especially Loch Ness are awe-inspiring. KILDONAN is the […]
Tags: 2025, Black Metal, Caligari Records, Jeremy Beck, Kildonan, Review
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › C on Wednesday, January 22nd, 2025
Cerebral Hemorrhage was a short-lived NYDM from the late 90’s to the early 00’s. In 2001 they released their only album Exempting Reality. They combined the slam and style of Internal Bleeding, Dehumanized, and Repudilation. All NY slam bands and I’ve even read online reviews about the debut album and vocalist Matthew Szablewicz being compared […]
Tags: 2025, Brutal Death Metal, Cerebral Hemorrhage, Comatose Music, Frank Rini, Review
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › R on Monday, January 20th, 2025
I missed the last album 2022s Born to be Dead, from Rogga Johansson’s Revolting project, just one of his 258 bands. However, the last time I heard them, on 2020s The Shadow at the World’s End, it was clear I was getting a bit bored with them, despite really enjoying the 3 album run of The […]
Tags: 2025, Death Metal, Erik T, Review, Revolting, Xtreem Music
Posted in Frontpage Feature, Reviews, Reviews › P on Monday, January 20th, 2025
When Panzerchrist released Last of a Kind in 2023 I was fucking ecstatic. It had been a long minute since 7th Offensive and their departure from the Metal community was deeply emotional (I know I cried like a bitch… not really but I was sad for sure) so when Last of a Kind was announced, […]
Tags: 2025, Black/Death Metal, Emanzipation Productions, Jeremy Beck, Panzerchrist, Review
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › A on Friday, January 17th, 2025
The year of the EP was 2024. Without a doubt I think I covered more Eps last year than any other in recent memories; granted that my brain is Swiss fucking cheese but whatever. Eps ruled! Abschwörzunge has unleashed hell with its incredibly bleak outlook on humanity in sonic form with Whorl. It’s a dirty, […]
Tags: 2025, Abschwörzunge, Black Metal, I Voidhanger Records, Jeremy Beck, Review
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › R on Thursday, January 16th, 2025
Something is going on in Tennessee. There’s stench in the air, it’s foul and nauseating and is permeating the Death Metal community with some fresh blood. Enter Ritual Fog from Memphis and their chest bursting debut But Merely Flesh. Following a split EP and the release of the single Visions of Blasphemy; both in 2022, […]
Tags: 2025, Jeremy Beck, Review, Ritual Fog, Transcending Obscurity Records
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › S on Wednesday, January 15th, 2025
Śmierć (‘Death’, ‘End of life’) is a long-running Swedish band paying to Polish hardcore with Polish titles and such. Opór (‘Resistance’) is their third effort and they were kind enough to reach out to the site directly and send me a copy of the LP, with its gorgeous artwork and all. The album is co-released […]
Tags: 2024, Crust, D-Beat, Erik T, Nikt Nic Nie Wie, Prank Records, Punk, Review, Śmierć
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › G on Tuesday, January 14th, 2025
I’ve always loved soundtracks and instrumental albums in general. This has been a great year for instrumental Death Metal and Dark Wave and these Italian maniacs have crafted a second amaze-balls album aptly named Gothron Vs Fartark. Apparently, there’s a story going on between these alien forces… It’s mind blowing, indeed. From the press release: […]
Tags: 2025, Gotho, Jeremy Beck, Review, Supernatural Cat, Supernatural Cat Records
Posted in Frontpage Feature, Reviews, Reviews › K on Monday, January 13th, 2025
Remember these guys? At one point in the mid-1990s Denmark’s Konkhra was on the very cusp of international metal stardom. As nu-metal exploded and death metal was selling out/transitioning to more commercial groovy sounds (Gorefest, Grave, Obituary, Entombed, Mercyless, Dismember, etc), Konkhra capitalized on this. And with albums like Sexual Affect Disorder, Spit or Swallow […]
Tags: 2025, Death Metal, Erik T, Groove Metal, Hammerheart Records, Konkhra, Review