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Epicardiectomy – Dismal Landscapes of Voluptuous Pustular Cadaverosis (Review)

Epicardiectomy are a death metal band from Czechia and this is their fourth album.

Dismal Landscapes of Voluptuous Pustular Cadaverosis offers up a feast of gruesome death metal brutality. Epicardiectomy are here to give you a big face full of SLAM, and they’re not interested in your cries for mercy. Across 37 minutes you’ll be horribly abused and violated, and you’ll love it. At least, you will if you’re a fan of brutal slamming death metal of the foulest sort. Continue reading “Epicardiectomy – Dismal Landscapes of Voluptuous Pustular Cadaverosis (Review)”

Gorod – The Ember Gone (Review)

This is the eighth album by French death metal band Gorod.

After their very strong 2023 album The Orb, the return of Gorod is to be celebrated. The Ember Gone delivers 44 minutes of the band’s charismatic take on progressive and technical death metal, yet with a different spin. This time, the music places a much greater emphasis on the band’s progressive side. Continue reading “Gorod – The Ember Gone (Review)”

Gorge – Deeds of Horror (Review)

Gorge are an Italian death metal band and this is their debut album.

Containing a member of Fulci, Deeds of Horror dishes out 28 minutes of death metal that’s raw and nasty, but surprisingly catchy and memorable too. Gorge’s music is effortlessly good fun, and destined to cause pit mayhem wherever it goes. Continue reading “Gorge – Deeds of Horror (Review)”

Abyssal Rift – Relics of Great Ash (Review)

This is the second album from Abyssal Rift, a death metal band from the US.

Prepare thyself for the hulking great chunk of spectral rot that is Relics of Great Ash. This is a hideous collection of malignant death metal, corroded by foul doom corruption and poisoned by industrial waste. Yep, Abyssal Rift have produced a record of dark intensity that’s worth exploring if you’re a fan of unrelenting horror. Continue reading “Abyssal Rift – Relics of Great Ash (Review)”

Carbon Tomb – Passage to a Neutron Star (Review)

Carbon Tomb are a death metal band from Denmark and this is their debut album.

Carbon Tomb play dissonant death metal, with a touch of a blackened influence in places. Passage to a Neutron Star delivers a 34-minute exemplar of the style’s dark allure, offering both brutality and feeling. Continue reading “Carbon Tomb – Passage to a Neutron Star (Review)”

Disgracing – Descension into Despair (Review)

This is the debut EP from UK death metal band Disgracing.

Introducing the world to Disgracing’s brand of brutal death metal comes Descension into Despair – 19 minutes of barbaric savagery and bone-crushing heaviness. Continue reading “Disgracing – Descension into Despair (Review)”

Beyond Grace – Welcome to the New Dark Ages, Part 3 (Review)

This is the latest EP from Beyond Grace, a death metal band from the UK.

Two years after the second part of this EP trilogy, we come to Welcome to the New Dark Ages, Part 3. Beyond Grace continue to impress, and their continued lack of higher profile continues to be a mystery. Regardless, this EP is another reason to get on board the Beyond Grace train. Continue reading “Beyond Grace – Welcome to the New Dark Ages, Part 3 (Review)”

Altarage – Cogwheel (Review)

Altarage are a Spanish blackened death metal band and this is their seventh album.

If you’re unfamiliar with the monstrous entity that is Altarage, then prepare yourself for something dread-inducing that will haunt your nightmares. Yes, Cogwheel is here. Offering up an imposing 75 minutes of new material, Cogwheel finds Altarage ready to begin the end times all on their own. Continue reading “Altarage – Cogwheel (Review)”

Nothingness – Godslaughter (Review)

This is the third album from US death metallers Nothingness.

Following on from 2023’s very well-received Supraliminal comes Godslaughter, which provides us with 41 minutes of new material. Nothingness continue to elevate themselves. In the death metal killing arenas, they take skulls and grisly trophies increasingly easily. Continue reading “Nothingness – Godslaughter (Review)”

Sallow Moth – Hydrophilous Brood (Review)

This is the fourth album from US death metal band Sallow Moth.

Sallow Moth play adventurous death metal that brings together elements of the technical, progressive, and brutal subgenres, (with dissonant and jazzy touches too). Brought to us by an ex-member of Cara Neir, Memorrhage, and Wildspeaker, Hydrophilous Brood contains 39 minutes of sci-fi extremity that’s sure to scratch multiple death metal itches at once.

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