This is the debut album from Sloth Herder, a blackened grindcore band from the US.
Sloth Herder are a murky underground monster that’s slowly been rising up through the underworld over the last few years to claim its victims. With No Pity, No Sunrise, they’re finally ready to make their big assault. Continue reading “Sloth Herder – No Pity, No Sunrise (Review)”
This is the debut album of French death metal band Creeping Fear.
Approaching a band with a name like Creeping Fear you might expect some kind of music that’s full of slow-building malevolence and sinister atmosphere…Well, you might, if you didn’t already know that Onward to Apocalypse is packed with Continue reading “Creeping Fear – Onward to Apocalypse (Review)”
In the Company of Serpents are a doom/sludge band from the US and this is their third album.
We’re familiar with the work of In the Company of Serpents from their 2014 EP Merging in Light. This was a delightfully heavy and fuzzed-up example of pitch-black doom, and now the band have returned to once more pulverise everything before them, but this time in a slightly different way. Continue reading “In the Company of Serpents – Ain-Soph Aur (Review)”
Behind the Sun are a Progressive Metal band from the US. This is their debut EP.
Behind the Sun play extreme metal that takes a progressive view of its influences, delivering half an hour or so of modern music that engages and satisfies. Continue reading “Behind the Sun – Post Solis (Review)”
Gjendød are a Norwegian black metal band and this is their debut album.
After Gjendød’s debut last year, we now have some more material from them in the form of their first full-length, Nedstigning. Continue reading “Gjendød – Nedstigning (Review)”
Temple of Nihil are a black metal band from Russia and this is their debut EP.
Temple of Nihil specialise in occult black metal with a tasty guitar tone and a daemonic persona. Continue reading “Temple of Nihil – Soul Extremist (Review)”
This is the second album from Jagged Vision, a Norwegian metallic hardcore band.
As a starting point for Jagged Vision’s sound, imagine a band like Black Tusk or Doomriders, add in some All Pigs Must Die, and then coat the entire thing in a violent metallic hardcore sheen.
Jagged Vision play a hardcore/sludge/metal mix that borrows from aspects of all styles, allowing the band to firmly cement their own personality. Continue reading “Jagged Vision – Death Is This World (Review)”
Obituary are a legendary death metal band from the US. This is their tenth album.
I appear to just be getting fonder of Obituary as the years go by. I’ve always been a fan, but more and more I find that I keep returning to their music, both old and new, for a fix of groove-based old-school death metal. Continue reading “Obituary – Obituary (Review)”
Palmer’s latest album Surrounding the Void is one of those albums that takes you on a journey, and once you’ve been once you definitely want to go again. It’s an album that slots into the post-metal landscape easily, and reminds me of some of the classics from the earlier days of the style.
Intrigued? You should be. Let’s find out a bit more… Continue reading “Interview with Palmer”
Condemned are a US death metal band and this is their third album.
If you’re looking for a short, condensed blast of brutal death metal with some horrific sci-fi themes, then Condemned have got you covered.
This is music to Continue reading “Condemned – His Divine Shadow (Review)”
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