Posts Tagged ‘Technical Death Metal’
Posted in Frontpage Feature, Reviews, Reviews › F on Monday, August 26th, 2024
Album number 6 from Italy’s master of symphonic/orchestral brutal death metal sees more lineup changes, much like 2019s Veleno. And while they certainly weathered the changes admirably (replacing long-time members Christiano Trionfera and Tommaso Ricardi departing, Francisco Paoli moving from drums to vocals), with a really good album that even showed some more controlled and restrained songs, […]
Tags: 2024, Erik T, Fleshgod Apocalypse, Nuclear Blast Records, Review, Symphonic Metal, Technical Death Metal
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › F on Wednesday, August 14th, 2024
Canada’s brutal blackened /grind space death metal band Fractal Generator is back with their third album Convergence. I am a huge fan of their debut Apotheosynthesis and the follow-up Macrocosmos. This band is a very intriguing and original band in many ways. I find them exciting. All their albums boast awesome artwork too, as this […]
Tags: 2024, Everlasting Spew Records, Fractal Generator, Frank Rini, Grindcore, Review, Technical Death Metal
Posted in Frontpage Feature, Reviews, Reviews › W on Monday, July 15th, 2024
Spain’s Wormed has been around for over 25 years – wow how time really flies into a space vortex!!! The band takes their time with releasing albums and other than a 2019 stop-gap EP Metaportal, which I reviewed, Omegon has taken eight years to come out since the scorching Krighsu. Omegon is Wormed’s fourth album […]
Tags: 2024, Brutal Death Metal, Frank Rini, Review, Season of Mist, Technical Death Metal, Wormed
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › S on Thursday, July 4th, 2024
Canada keeps kicking out sick tech death bands in 2024. Sentiment Dissolve has been around since 2021. The Orwellian Dream kicks off with “Forced Birther.’ Right off the bat you can hear how intricate their arrangements and vocal patterns are. You can hear the Archspire influence on the vocal patterns which are quite impressive done […]
Tags: 2024, CDN Records, Nick K, Review, Sentiment Dissolve, Technical Death Metal
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › R on Wednesday, July 3rd, 2024
Technical Death Metal is one of those sub-genres I must be in the mood for. The same goes for Power Metal, but I’m talking about Replacire and not Sonata Artica; the former being the Eric Alper driven death machine that I had no idea existed and the latter being one of the best Power Metal […]
Tags: 2024, Jeremy Beck, Replacire, Review, Season of Mist, Technical Death Metal
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 › V on Monday, June 10th, 2024
I am new to the Vale of Pnath fan club. I’ve seen the logo over a number of years, however, I never heard them up until now. This Colorado technical death metal act has been around since 2006 with 2 prior ep’s and 2 prior full lengths to boot. After hearing Between the Worlds of […]
Tags: 2024, Frank Rini, Review, Technical Death Metal, Vale, vale of Pnath, Willowtip Records
Posted in Frontpage Feature, Reviews, Reviews › C on Monday, May 27th, 2024
I have thoroughly enjoyed New Jersey’s Cognitive rise through the underground ranks since their first EP in 2012 – The Horrid Swarm. I became friends with guitarist Rob Wharton, reviewed several of their early releases, finally met him on one of his tours years ago and he saw me touring with Internal Bleeding, as well […]
Tags: 2024, Cognitive, Frank Rini, Metal Blade Records, Review, Technical Death Metal
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › F on Thursday, May 16th, 2024
Canada keeps kicking out sick releases in 2024. Quebec’s From Dying Suns return with their first LP Calamity. This band features members of: Augury, Killotorious and Aeternam. Matthew Dhani, the vocalist of Killotorious is also the live vocalist for First Fragment. It is also worth noting that Christian Donaldson of Cryptopsy mixed this. Calamity is […]
Tags: 2024, From Dying Suns, Nick K, Review, Self-Released, Technical Death Metal
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › A on Friday, May 3rd, 2024
Atrae Bilis is a Canadian technical death metal band not involving Phillip Tougas. Technical death metal has a place in my heart, but it’s one of those genres that’s hit or miss. My standard bearer has been Obscura for several years. The band and the 1998 Gorguts album. The reason is because of excellent songs. […]
Tags: 20 Buck Spin, 2024, Atrae Bilis, J Mays, Review, Technical Death Metal
Posted in Frontpage Feature, Reviews, Reviews › P on Monday, April 22nd, 2024
I have reviewed quite a lot of Pestilence albums on this site, as well as reviewing their various reissues multiple times and over the years I would consider main axe grinder/vocalist, Patrick Mameli, as a friend, with our various interactions. I respect his musical work and songwriting skills and many of the Pestilence albums I […]
Tags: 2024, Agonia Records, Frank Rini, Pestilence, Review, Technical Death Metal
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › W on Thursday, March 21st, 2024
I have been waiting patiently for the first full-length from these sickos from Chicago patiently since their 2019 Light Eater EP debut. So, here we are, nine-track debut album. The opening track “Of Ruin” sets the tempo for the whole album. Kicking things off with a two-minute instrumental is a bold choice but it works […]
Tags: 2024, Everlasting Spew Records, Nick K, Review, Technical Death Metal, Wounds
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › A on Thursday, March 14th, 2024
Toronto Canada’s tech deathsters Apogean make their debut with Cyberstrictive. Vocalist Mac Smith filled in for Bill Robinson of Decrepit Birth recently. Off the bat, Zach Ohren’s (The Faceless, All Shall Perish, Immolation, etc.) mixing and Mastering work is elite. Things get kicked off with “Blue Night Sonata.” The technical prowess of these guys is […]
Tags: Apogean, Nick K, Review, Technical Death Metal, The Artisan Era
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › S on Thursday, February 29th, 2024
While power and black metal was/has often been the primary vehicles for keyboards/ orchestration in metal, I still fondly recall some of my early exposure to more epic keys and orchestration (not just intros or a bit here or there for atmosphere) in death metal such as Nocturnus (arguably the first to do so?), Amorphis, […]
Tags: 2024, Amputated Vein Records, Erik T, Review, Spiritual Deception, Symphonic Metal, Technical Death Metal
Posted in Frontpage Feature, Reviews, Reviews › J on Monday, February 26th, 2024
It’s been ten years since we last heard from Job For A Cowboy, so let me give a cliffnotes back story: the band is one of the first deathcore bands to blow up thanks to a Spongebob Squarepants video mash-up to the song “Knee Deep” (it is how I first heard the band- and it’s […]
Tags: 2024, Erik T, Job For A Cowboy, Metal Blade Records, Progressive Death Metal, Review, Technical Death Metal
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › C on Thursday, February 8th, 2024
How does a New Jersey Tech Death based on the anime Neon Genesis Evangelion sound? Well, I am intrigued. Things get kicked off with “Synchronization.” First impressions are a mix of Spawn of Possession with a bit of earlier Archspire. The way they use vibrato is impressive. Pretty insane musicianship from these guys. Excellent guest […]
Tags: 2023, Chaos Sanctuary, Nick K, Review, Self-Released, Technical Death Metal
Posted in Frontpage Feature, Reviews, Reviews › E on Monday, January 29th, 2024
When talking about French technical death metal, the absolute top of the list is Gorod, but I think there is an argument to be made for Exocrine to be right there with them. The Bordeuax band has been on an absolute tear since 2018’s Molten Giant, which was somehow their third album already. Then with […]
Tags: 2024, Erik T, Exocrine, Review, Season of Mist, Technical Death Metal
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › C on Tuesday, January 9th, 2024
I became a fan of the UK’s technical death metal band Cognizance, from their Inquisition EP, their debut release in 2013, and reviewed it back then. I was pretty blown away by the array of technical wizardry and monstrously brutal moments. The band reminding me of Beneath The Massacre/Obscura type of music. After releasing a […]
Tags: 2024, Cognizance, Frank Rini, Review, Technical Death Metal, Willowtip Records
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › S on Thursday, December 7th, 2023
Stortregn’s (‘downpour’) development from a melodic black metal band into a more technical, shredding death metal band with a few black metal elements has been a splendid development, and fittingly with the style shift, the band found themselves on the perfect label, The Artisan Era, literally the preemptive label for shreddy/melodic, sometimes symphonic tech death/black […]
Tags: 2023, Erik T, Melodic Black Metal, Review, Stortregn, Technical Death Metal, The Artisan Era
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › X on Wednesday, November 29th, 2023
I’ve been trying to figure out how I want this introduction to go. There are times when I get an album to review and it’s like a blind date. That’s not always the case especially if I’ve at least heard or read something about them. But with Xoth I’m going in blind as a bat. […]
Tags: 2023, Dawnbreed Records, Jeremy Beck, Review, Technical Death Metal, Xoth
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › W on Friday, November 10th, 2023
No longer a band with international members, USA’s brutal tech death metal/deathcore band Wormhole returns with their third album, Almost Human, and debut on Season of Mist Records. Wormhole has been around for 8 years and their 2016 debut, Genesis, caught my attention with the monstrous tech brutality and brutal beatdown slams. Outside of the […]
Tags: 2023, Brutal Death Metal, Frank Rini, Review, Season of Mist, Technical Death Metal, Wormhole
Posted in Frontpage Feature, Reviews, Reviews › S on Monday, November 6th, 2023
So here it finally is…. the new Suffocation album, and notably the first release without original vocalist Frank Mullen, since the band formed in 1990. While other members (other than the other lone original member, guitarist Terrance Hobbs), have come and gone, Frank and Terrance have been there since day one, so this album is […]
Tags: 2023, Death Metal, Erik T, Nuclear Blast Records, Suffocation, Technical Death Metal
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › G on Thursday, October 26th, 2023
Technical Death Metal Italians Gory Blister returns with the 7th full length. The album kicks off with a cool synth intro into some thrashy riffing over aggressive blasting. Reminds me of a cross between Vader and Hate Eternal. “Push through the Venom” gets things kicked off after a fun short intro. The production is quite […]
Tags: 2023, Eclipse Records, Gory Blister, Nick K, Review, Technical Death Metal
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › O on Thursday, October 19th, 2023
From Helsinki Finland, Technical Dissonant Death Metallers Omnivortex returns with their second full-length Circulate. The album kicks off with “Dwells” which opens with a huge dissonant vibrato riff that leads the way for an impressive track. What makes Omnivortex unique is their dual vocal approach. Both the drummer Aaro Osterman and guitarist Aaro Österman manage […]
Tags: 2023, Inverse Records, Nick K, Omnivortex, Review, Technical Death Metal
Posted in Frontpage Feature, Reviews, Reviews › C on Monday, September 11th, 2023
Montreal Technical Death Masters Cryptopsy returns with their eighth studio album As Gomorrah Burns. It was written over the last two years during the pandemic and they wrote and recorded this in a cabin to add to the horror movie-like ambiance. This is the first full-length album since their 2012 self-titled release featuring original guitarist […]
Tags: 2023, Cryptopsy, Nick K, Nuclear Blast Records, Technical Death Metal