Infectology – Innards of Misanthropic Embodiment (Review)

InfectologyInfectology are a death metal band from Ecuador. This is their second album.

Infectology play brutal death metal that’s relentless and barbaric. The blast beats and guttural vocals never end, save for the odd bouncier section and one instrumental track, (Inhuman Conception). Continue reading “Infectology – Innards of Misanthropic Embodiment (Review)”

Dawn of Demise – The Suffering (Review)

Dawn of DemiseThis is the fourth album from Dawn of Demise, a death metal band from Denmark.

Dawn of Demise’s fourth album is the kind of instantly-gratifying hit of death metal that it’s so very easy to like. The album has 37 minutes of prime-time barbarous death metal that’s sure to find fans among all connoisseurs of aural carnage. Continue reading “Dawn of Demise – The Suffering (Review)”

Ancient – Back to the Land of the Dead (Review)

AncientThis is the seventh album from these Norwegian black metal veterans.

This is the band’s first album in 12 years, so I think it’s safe to say there’s no small level of expectation riding on this release in some quarters.

Well, they’re returning with no half measures – this album contains 67 minutes of music, spread across 12 original songs plus a Bathory cover.

This is melodic black metal with Continue reading “Ancient – Back to the Land of the Dead (Review)”

Interview with Seventh Station

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Seventh Station are a band that like their intricate playing and involved compositions. This is perfectly exemplified on their debut album Between Life and Dreams. With a varied and nuanced approach to songwriting, the band take the listener on a roller coaster ride though multiple feelings, moods and experiences, as they traverse the musical landscape with veteran ease. Dmitri Alperovich, lead guitarist extraordinaire, gave me a bit more information about his band…

Give us a bit of background to Seventh Station

Seventh Station is an international progressive metal band, founded by me and the bass player Alexey Polyansky in 2008 at Jerusalem, Israel. The band is based in Slovenia today and its members are from Israel, Slovenia and USA. We are using lots of different types of music to form our ideas and the main aim is not to be limited to any kind of expression we want to play. Continue reading “Interview with Seventh Station”

Subliminal Fear – Escape from Leviathan (Review)

Subliminal FearThis is the third album from Subliminal Fear, an Italian metal band.

This is modern metal that takes its primary influences from a combination of the cybermetal styles, (Fear Factory, Mnemic), and melodic groove metal, (Soilwork, In Flames, etc.), alongside a pinch of djent and industrial.

With this in mind, the band operate in the more commercial realm of the style, rather than on the heavier end as some bands do when incorporating these influences, (for the most part at least; that’s not to say the band can’t be heavy or more extreme when they want to). The songs work well in this context though, with the band’s clean vocal harmonies being Continue reading “Subliminal Fear – Escape from Leviathan (Review)”

Evil Reborn – Throne of Insanity (Review)

Evil RebornEvil Reborn are a death metal band from Venezuela and this is their debut album.

Ahh, here’s the stuff; 31 minutes of heavy, chunky death metal to help you get through your day. Evil Reborn play a satisfying brand of death metal that sees them visit a few different eras, essentially resulting in some timeless, classic death metal fun for all of the family.

With muscular riffs and deep growling vocals, Throne of Insanity easily makes friends as it clubs them to death with a belligerent snarl. Continue reading “Evil Reborn – Throne of Insanity (Review)”

Atomgott – Apatheia (Review)

AtomgottThis is the debut album from Atomgott, a German death metal band.

Atomgott mix together brutal/slamming death metal and deathcore to give us 29 minutes of huge riffs and heavy aggression.

The band are focused on providing the listener with a combination of speed and groove, both of which they do very effectively. Although there’s elements of the more modern deathcore/slam styles, there’s a good chunk of USDM in here too, recalling Continue reading “Atomgott – Apatheia (Review)”

Spirit Adrift – Chained to Oblivion (Review)

Spirit AdriftThis is the debut album from Spirit Adrift, a one-man doom metal band from the US.

Chained to Oblivion has got some very tasty riffs on it. Oh yes. It’s a right old riff-fest, actually. The fact that these riffs combine to form songs that hit the mark with a lot of accuracy, is even better.

With a warm, heavy sound, these five tracks impress from the start, and seem to go from strength to Continue reading “Spirit Adrift – Chained to Oblivion (Review)”

Unborn Suffer – Nihilist (Review)

Unborn SufferUnborn Suffer are a deathgrind band from Poland, this is their fifth album.

Nihilist is 28 minutes of brutal death metal and grindcore, both mixed together and boiled alive to create a particularly dirty strain of deathgrind. It’s also quite a non-standard release – not because the band do anything wildly original, but because they’ve firmly stamped their music with their own mark.

To expand on this; the band have a rather unusual Continue reading “Unborn Suffer – Nihilist (Review)”