Posts Tagged ‘Willowtip Records’
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › A on Tuesday, September 11th, 2018
Hang on to your seats people. This one is a doozy. Malta’s Abysmal Torment have returned with the fourth full length effort The Misanthrope. Let’s get right into this okay, the title track “The Misanthrope” hits like a ball peen hammer right away. Max Vassallo is one of the sickest drummers I have heard in […]
Tags: 2018, Abysmal Torment, Nick K, Review, Willowtip Records
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › S on Tuesday, May 15th, 2018
Maybe it’s a bit premature, considering I am writing this review in what is still the first quarter of 2018, but for the time being, I am putting money on the U.K.’s Slugdge‘s new album, Esoteric Malacology, to be the album of the year for many a metalhead; or a contender for the title at […]
Tags: 2018, Kristofor Allred, Review, Slugdge, Willowtip Records
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › L on Tuesday, May 1st, 2018
Having only heard Lecherous Nocturne’s debut release Adoration of the Blade and also being aware of some of the personnel changes amongst the band (such has Dallas Toller Wade / ex Nile for example) I wondered how this would affect the group and their sound. I quickly re-listened to the debut, to have a barometer […]
Tags: 2018, Lecherous Nocturne, Review, Will 'Bones' Lee, Willowtip Records
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › D on Friday, November 3rd, 2017
Well this is a most unrelentingly brutal release to get us moving into the fall season. Italy’s Daemusinem debut with their first release Thy Godly Defiance released by Willowtip Records. I was excited to hear about this project in being a fan of the group Putridity. Daemusinem is in no way like Putridity other than […]
Tags: 2017, Daemusinem, Nick K, Review, Willowtip Records
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › G on Wednesday, September 13th, 2017
So there are death metal bands and then there is Gigan… In a category all their own, from a galaxy unknown to man and from the brain of mainman Eric Hersemann. I guess if you want some kind of direction with their style, think: Ulcerate, Voivod, Artificial Brain, Gorguts, Doctor Who, Cerebral chaos, Sci-Fi, Space […]
Tags: 2017, Frank Rini, Gigan, Review, Willowtip Records
Posted in Frontpage Feature, Reviews, Reviews › C on Monday, August 28th, 2017
Contrarian caused a few waves back in 2015 with their highly regarded debut, Polemic. A supergroup of sorts founded by Jim Tasikas with Brian Mason (Sulaco), Leon Macy (Mithras) on guitars with George Lollias (Nile) on drums. It was a Death homage, with a heavier lean on the band’s latter, more progressive tones, adding some […]
Tags: 2017, Contrarian, E.Thomas, Review, Willowtip Records
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › S on Wednesday, March 22nd, 2017
Usually when perusing the promo portal I skip over reissues and re-releases to focus my attention on new stuff. However, upon discovering Willowtip records was repackaging the three full-length albums from UK’s highly innovative extreme metal duo Slugdge and dubbing it The Cosmic Cornucopia, I couldn’t resist the opportunity to delve in and spread the […]
Tags: 2017, Luke Saunders, Review, Slugdge, Willowtip Records
Posted in Frontpage Feature, Reviews, Reviews › M on Monday, October 24th, 2016
Nine years is a mere nanosecond compared to the endless expanse of space and time, but that’s how long it has been since Mithras’ last full album, Behind the Shadows Lie Madness. That was my #1 album for 2007, and it still gets frequent play (its album cover also still gets regular desktop background honors), as there […]
Tags: 2016, Jordan Itkowitz, Mithras, Review, Technical Death Metal, Willowtip Records
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › M on Friday, September 30th, 2016
Well, I’m going to go ahead and say it. I know we still have a few more months left to this year, but I am going to go out on a limb and say it. Mephistopheles‘ new EP release, In Reverence of Forever, is hands down my favorite metal album released this year, and quite […]
Tags: 2016, Kristofor Allred, Mephistopheles, Review, Willowtip Records
Posted in Frontpage Feature, Reviews, Reviews › D on Monday, August 22nd, 2016
Defeated Sanity return to us with an unorthodox dual e.p. release. As they should. With a discography of stellar releases they have an earned reputation for reaching beyond the death metal abyss and fans expect more from them than even the nearest band to their rank. Last we heard from these dastardly villains was 2013’s […]
Tags: 2016, Defeated Sanity, Mars Budziszewski, Review, Willowtip Records
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › G on Wednesday, July 13th, 2016
Finland’s Gloria Morti, despite having been around since 2001 and have 4 previous albums are new to me. But being on Willowtip and having members in its ranks with ties to Wolfheart/Black Sun Aeon/Before the Dawn, Swallow the Sun, Morbid Vomit and Gorephillia, was enough to make me check them out. And I glad I did. […]
Tags: 2016, E.Thomas, Gloria Morti, Review, Willowtip Records
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › V on Monday, June 20th, 2016
After the band’s impressive 2008/9 EP, and a pretty well received full length debut, The Prodigal Empire in 2011, a lot of folks were hailing this Denver act as the new Arsis meets The Black Dahlia Murder of the scene, mixing shredding black/death metal with melodic death metal . But the band went a bit dark […]
Tags: 2016, E.Thomas, Review, vale of Pnath, Willowtip Records
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › C on Wednesday, December 23rd, 2015
Sure, there have been some great Death and Chuck Schuldiner homages in 2015- notably Gruesome and Skeletal Remains. But what if the spirit of Chuck Schuldiner was implanted into something a little less obvious and something a little more cavernous? And what if that something was a sort of super group featuring George Kollias (Nile, […]
Tags: 2015, Contrarian, E.Thomas, Review, Willowtip Records
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › P on Wednesday, November 11th, 2015
Speed… speed… and more SPEEEEEEEDDDDD!!! That’s what you should expect out of the 3rd LP from this Italian brutal death metal quintet. They want to play as fast as possible, and fast they most definitely can do. I remember this band from their last full length, Degenerating Anthropophagical Euphoria, which was a good album, […]
Tags: 2015, Kevin E, Putridity, Review, Willowtip Records
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › S on Monday, March 9th, 2015
Back in 2007, the UKs Sarpanitum released one of the best debuts from a UK death metal band of recent memory, Despoilment of Origin. It was released on Galactic Records, the label owned by Leon Macy the founder of fellow UK death metal act Mithras, who also were making quite a stir in the death metal scene […]
Tags: 2015, E.Thomas, Review, Sarpanitum, Willowtip Records
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › I on Monday, February 16th, 2015
The ability to convey mood is a technique that may be lacking in metal more than it ever has. As with any art form when it becomes oversaturated, the superficial elements that make up its basic skeleton get amplified over actual substance, making a hollow representation of what could have been a unique statement by […]
Tags: 2015, Ingurgitating Oblivion, Jerry Hauppa, Review, Willowtip Records
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › A on Wednesday, June 25th, 2014
Willowtip’s entry into 2014 early/Spring run of superlative tech/brutal death metal comes by way of the tiny country of Malta and the third album from Abysmal Torment, a band previously unknown to me. And boy is it a doozie. Using Floridan death metal as a very broad template, Abysmal Torment manage to dirty the core sound […]
Tags: 2014, Abysmal Torment, E.Thomas, Review, Willowtip Records
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › N on Thursday, April 10th, 2014
Los Angeles Californian, grind/punk/crust act Nausea, FINALLY return with their sophomore album, hell it’s been over 2 decades since the unleashing of Crime Against Humanity, for crissakes. But we know how life is. It’s really tough to keep a band going, especially when you throw in life responsibilities, on top of band responsibilities. I will […]
Tags: 2014, Frank Rini, Nausea, Review, Willowtip Records
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › P on Friday, March 7th, 2014
If you’re a death metal fan, one of the Dutch scene in particular, you’ve likely heard of the band Prostitute Disfigurement. In addition to their catchy name, they’ve managed to produce some pretty good albums. The last one of theirs I got into was 2008’s Descendants of Depravity, but then the band broke up in […]
Tags: 2014, Kevin E, Prostitute Disfigurement, Review, Willowtip Records
Posted in Blog, Frontpage Feature on Monday, February 3rd, 2014
Here is hopefully the first of a new feature here at Teeth of the Divine, The New Classics. if you have been listening to metal for any amount of time you well know there there are a certain few records hailed as unquestionable classics. Legendary releases that, 20 years after their release, are still revered, still influential and still great listens. Of course, most of those classics were released in the ’80s and ’90s: Reign in Blood, Master of Puppets, Altars of Madness, Left Hand Path and others, to this day, are considered true classics and will be in another 20 years.
Tags: 2013, Rune, The New Classics, Willowtip Records
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › M on Thursday, November 7th, 2013
Willowtip’s strength as a label has long been their association with forward thinking and technically proficient metal bands willing to push the envelope and challenge the listener. Naturally they have wisely broadened their roster over the years to include artists of a more cut-throat and straight-forward brand of extremity. Yet my original attraction, and continued […]
Tags: 2013, Luke Saunders, Mephistopheles, Review, Willowtip Records
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › S on Friday, September 13th, 2013
It’s taken all the way to September, but we have a late favorite for what very well could be the brutal/slam death album of the year. If you were disappointed in the last LP from USA slam death kings Devourment (as I definitely was), then Saprogenic are here to cure what ails you. They’ve put […]
Tags: 2013, Kevin E, Review, Saprogenic, Willowtip Records
Posted in News on Wednesday, April 17th, 2013
PROSTITUTE DISFIGUREMENT Joins Willowtip Records Dutch death metal hellions PROSTITUTE DISFIGUREMENT are pleased to join Willowtip Records’ stable of sonic chaos for the release of their upcoming new studio offering. Lovingly titled From Crotch To Crown, the long-awaited follow-up to 2008’s deviant Descendants Of Depravity full-length promises to deliver the band’s sickest, most violently aggressive […]
Tags: 2013, News, Prostitute Disfigurement, Willowtip Records
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › W on Thursday, March 28th, 2013
Wormed, Spain’s brutal purveyors of tech-death, have been gestating for about a decade before finally dropping Exodromos; the much-anticipated follow-up to their widely acclaimed 2003 debut, Planisphaerium. Maybe it was my mindset at the time but their debut didn’t really move me in the way it rumbled the underground. Not that it’s a bad album […]
Tags: 2013, Luke Saunders, Review, Willowtip Records, Wormed
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › M on Monday, October 22nd, 2012
Brutal death/tech-death/grind maniacs Malignancy are back with their third full length, though they have been at it for nearly 20 years now. Their last album, Inhuman Grotesqueries, was one I remember listening to and seeing on the Willowip site, but the weak production left me wanting more as it hid the talent that was bubbling […]
Tags: 2012, Kevin E, Malignancy, Review, Willowtip Records