Morthus are an old-school blackened death metal band from Poland. This is their début album.
Now this is quite exciting. I’ve been looking forward to hearing something more from this band ever since their début EP The Abyss arrived in 2014 and floored me with its combination of death, black and classic metal. Continue reading “Morthus – Over the Dying Stars (Review)”
This is Fractured Insanity’s third album. They are a death metal band from Belgium.
Fractured Insanity play brutal death metal that’s intense and well-written. Although this is predominantly on the brutal end of the spectrum, there’s also elements of technicality at play here, which just adds further depth to the music.
Think a combination of Nile, Behemoth, Severe Torture, Malevolent Continue reading “Fractured Insanity – Man Made Hell (Review)”
Vanhelgd are a Swedish death metal band and this is their fourth album.
The band’s third album Relics of Sulphur Salvation was solid, authentic Swedish death metal with chainsaw guitars and a sharp sense of melody.
On this new album the band continue to play the style that made their previous release so enjoyable, only I’d say that Continue reading “Vanhelgd – Temple of Phobos (Review)”
Whitechapel are from the US and play deathcore/metal. This is their sixth album.
2014’s Our Endless War saw Whitechapel effectively combining their death metal/deathcore roots with their more further-developed modern metal approach from their previous release into an album that made the most out of both of these influences.
Mark of the Blade continues where Our Endless War left off, providing a large chunk of heavy, aggressive music with modern, groove and djent parts welded onto their thoroughly metal core. However, the band have also progressed and expanded Continue reading “Whitechapel – Mark of the Blade (Review)”
This is the second album from this death metal band, a collaboration between American and Belgian members.
Macabra specialise in old-school death metal that has a 90s Scandinavian flavour. Theirs is a paean to the atmospheric death metal of the 90s, as espoused by bands such as Amorphis and the like.
Quality riffs, the likes of which Continue reading “Macabra – …to the Bone (Review)”
This is the tenth album from this Swedish death metal institution.
After thoroughly enjoying the catchy brutality of their last album, Redeeming Filth, this latest release is eagerly awaited and gratefully received.
Followers of this site will know that I have somewhat of a soft spot for Continue reading “Centinex – Doomsday Rituals (Review)”
Demonic Rage are a Chilean death metal band.
Omen of Doom is a compilation of a lot of the band’s early hard/impossible to get demos dating back as far as 2001.
Due to the nature of a release like this the sound quality does vary between the various demos, but overall the band have unearthed a surprisingly well-preserved rotten corpse. The recording and production values deteriorate the further back in time you go, but even this doesn’t diminish the essential quality of what the band produce. Continue reading “Demonic Rage – Omen of Doom (Review)”
This is the début album of these French death metallers.
This is modern technical death metal that will easily find fans in people who like bands such as The Faceless, Gorod, Decapitated, Aborted, Wormed, First Fragment, etc.
Algorithm of Destruction has a clean, precise sound that Continue reading “Red Dawn – Algorithm of Destruction (Review)”
This is the début album from this Italian death metal band.
Here we have 34 minutes of music that combines elements of both technical and brutal death metal into its feral core. Featuring guests from Hideous Divinity, Deceptionist waste no time in establishing themselves as cyborg-enhanced death metal warriors.
Dealing with the type of concepts that Continue reading “Deceptionist – Initializing Irreversible Process (Review)”
Sacramental Blood are a brutal death metal band from Serbia. This is their début album.
This is savage, ferocious death metal that wastes no time in establishing its presence with blast beats, daemonic growls and lightspeed riffs. Yes, Sacramental Blood have arrived.
The vocalist spews forth powerfully delivered growls that seem to Continue reading “Sacramental Blood – Ternion Demonarchy (Review)”
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