Seeker are from the US and play grindcore/hardcore. This is their second album.
Now this is the stuff for those days when you just can’t seem to get going and you need a huge kick up the arse to get you moving. Seeker are the steel-toe capped boot. Continue reading “Seeker – Loss (Review)”
Black Blood Invocation are a Greek blackened death metal band and this is their debut release.
After a rather ominous intro, we get three songs of ugly, bestial death metal that sound as if a blackened tar has been poured over them and left to rot. Continue reading “Black Blood Invocation – Black Blood Invocation (Review)”
Satanic are a Canadian death/thrash metal band and this is their debut album.
Satanic play death metal mixed with thrash. The death metal side of the band’s style takes care of the aggression, while the thrash metal side concerns itself with spiky riffs and lightning guitar solos.
This is the fourth album from Australian death metal/deathcore band Thy Art Is Murder.
As far as the much-maligned deathcore genre goes, few bands do it for me as much as Thy Art Is Murder do. Holy War was a thunderously enjoyable slab of heaviosity, and their brief split with The Acacia Strain and Fit for an Autopsy also showed a band that knew what they were doing with the style. Continue reading “Thy Art Is Murder – Dear Desolation (Review)”
Inferum are a death metal band from the Netherlands and this is their debut EP.
This is modern death metal that contains elements of both groove metal and deathcore. Continue reading “Inferum – Modern Massacre (Review)”
This is the latest EP from Romanian post-metal band Kultika.
Has it really been four years since Kultika’s exceptional debut album The Strange Innerdweller? How time flies. Continue reading “Kultika – Pursuance (Review)”
Backbone are an Argentinian death metal band and this is their debut EP.
Backbone play death metal with a healthy helping of groove, thrash, and progressive metal thrown in for character and substance. Continue reading “Backbone – R’lyeh (Review)”
Narbeleth is a Cuban one-man black metal band and this is his fourth album.
I’ve been willingly following Narbeleth’s work for a few years now, starting with 2014’s A Hatred Manifesto and then with 2015’s Through Blackness, and Remote Places. There’s just something so pleasingly atavistic, raw, Continue reading “Narbeleth – Indomitvs (Review)”
This is the debut album from Suns of Sorath, a progressive black/death metal band from the US.
Flowers of the Lily boasts a lot of complex, technical playing. This has been structured into progressive music with black/death leanings, and peppered with avant-garde, classical, and jazz influences. Continue reading “Suns of Sorath – Flowers of the Lily (Review)”
Olde are a Canadian doom/stoner metal band and this is their second album.
Olde offer us some dark and heavy doom/stoner metal, worshipping the riff and generally invoking both rock and roll mayhem and sullen atmospheres to good effect. Continue reading “Olde – Temple (Review)”
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