Sweden’s Puteraeon are back with their fifth full-length album, Mountains of Madness. Their running themes across their albums are of Lovecraftian lore, and this album delves into one of, if not my favorite, of all of Lovecraft’s tales – At the Mountains of Madness. Many bands across the decades, as well as currently, have tackled […]
A debut full-length a day keeps the depression away. Today I’m going to talk about Lenax and their brand spanking first album Infection. A great debut album makes a statement, a stern fist to the face of a genre established years ago, while also attempting to cement the band in the annals of Black Metal’s […]
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 […]
What the hell am I listening to and why do I love this?? Our acclaimed site owner Erik “The Brave” Thomas did a bang up review of Impureza’s second album, La caída de Tonatiuh, in 2017 and it made his year end list as well. I overlooked the band, there are just too many bands […]
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 […]
Okay, so I saw the term Epic Folk Metal and I started thinking about Korpiklaani, Ensiferum, and Arkona (Rus). I was pretty on the mark with Korpiklaani more than the others, since Mandragora Titania (formerly Mandragora Thuringia) has created a magnificent and fun as fuck album. This isn’t their first album; they have three previous […]
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 […]
Hello from the skronky, Jazzy as fuck Tech-Death rabbit hole. This one is a deep goddamn dive (no pun intended) into the most insane Tech-Death album I have heard this year so far, and I’ve heard a few mind-melting albums already, so that is saying something. Digressing in progress because ByoNoiseGenerator is one of those […]
Thaumaturgic Veil, the fourth full-length from Milwaukee’s Viogression, came out of nowhere. It could be that the band has no label, and maybe that is why? Their last album, 3rd Stage of Decay, was a damn good album, and this album has a very striking and cool AF album cover. Brian DeNeffe, vocals, is the […]
Graceless, from the Netherlands, returns with their fourth album, Icons of Ruin. The band continues with their OSDM approach, which has nods to melodic Swedish death metal. They’ve never been interested in creating super brutal death metal, but their albums showcase memorable riffs and songs, which this fella appreciates immensely. I think anyone in the […]
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 other day in the group chat, el Jefe posed the question of a band that sounds like modern Hypocrisy, and would any of us like to cover it…? Well, sign me the fuck up, brother! I eat that shit up! So here I am reviewing Lacabra and their self-titled, debut full-length and I have […]
France’s Medieval black metal act Darkenhöld has been super productive since forming in 2008, with 5 albums and a few splits. But for some reason, I have yet to hear any of them. Which is a surprise, as this castle-storming style of black metal is my jam. You’d be forgiven for wondering why these guys […]
When calculating all of Sodom’s albums, The Arsonist, comes in at album #18, even with their covers albums, etc.. The long-running Teutonic German thrash metal band has had some clunkers along the way; however, Genesis XIX, from 2020, their last original full-length, showcased the band on fire ,especially with incorporating blast beats and showing a […]
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 […]
I reviewed the recent Dawn of Ouroboros album, mentioned Fallujah, and so this is perhaps a full-circle moment. I must, however, admit that I am one of those who enjoyed the early recordings, aka The Harvest Wombs, and feel as though the band hasn’t topped it. The rest of the recordings were frequently plagued with […]
Jazzy Tech-Death, how do I love thee? Let me count the ways… Quadvium (if you didn’t know already) is a project of Steve Di Giorgio (Testament, Death) and Jeroen Paul Thesseling (Obscura, Pestilence). They grabbed a guitar player along the way and a drummer: Yuma van Eekelen (Our Oceans, Pestilence) and Eve (Myth Of I, […]
Florida’s Heavy/Power metal band, Helms Deep, has released their second album, Chasing the Dragon. This is the follow-up to their excellent 2023 debut Treacherous Ways. For those thinking…Hmmmm I know where I have heard this band name before. Well if you are a Tolkien fan then you will remember it is an epic battle in […]
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 […]
Sargeist is one of the foundations of the Finnish Black Metal scene, a deadly force of Satanic wrath. They, along with Horna (Shatraug is associated with both Cult entities) and the unholy Behexen, form this Black Metal pyramid, a diabolical trinity if you will. Flame Within Flame is their sixth full-length following 2018’s Unbound, and […]
Long-running UK thrashers, Onslaught, are now armed with a new label, and the first release for the new label is this 2 disc set. The first disc is the band redoing 10 songs from their first three albums, due to how the band plays them live today. The second disc is the band covering many […]
I have a process when I look for new Metal when promos drop: find the weirdest sounding shit possible. So if I see that a band is featuring banjos, a cellist, and a keyboardist… I’m fucking sold. Such is the case with New York’s Weeping Sores and their blistering 2nd album, The Convalescence Agonies. It’s […]
I’m not going to say anything corny about one of my favorite metal bands Byzantine, being back in… You know. It’s been eight years since The Cicada Tree, which makes me think more of mortality and the passage of time than I would care to admit, so the implied above phrase would be appropriate. However, this is […]
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 […]