Hath are a progressive blackened death metal band from the US, (with members of Cognitive and Dystrophy), and this is their debut album.
Of Rot and Ruin combines a base of death metal aggression with black metal’s dark emotive qualities to produce and album that hits hard and memorably, and easily draws you back for more and more. Continue reading “Hath – Of Rot and Ruin (Review)”
This is the debut album from Ceremony of Silence, a Slovakian blackened death metal band.
Dissonant and atmospheric, this is music that’s dense with malignant promise and filled with a form of bleak, otherworldly evil. Continue reading “Ceremony of Silence – Outis (Review)”
This is the debut album from US death metallers Applaud the Impaler.
Applaud the Impaler smash together death metal, deathcore, and grindcore into a heaving mess of blood and entrails. This is quite the brutal delight. Continue reading “Applaud the Impaler – Ov Apocalypse Incarnate (Review)”
This is the seventh album from US deathcore veterans Whitechapel.
Following on from Our Endless War and Mark of the Blade, Whitechapel are back with another thundering album of deathcore, modern metal, and pit-rousing brutal anthems. So how have they got on this time? Continue reading “Whitechapel – The Valley (Review)”
This is the second album from death metal band Undead Prophecies.
This is death metal rooted in the old-school. It’s played with obvious reverence for what came before it, and has clearly injected itself with a potent cocktail of stimulants to hit with as much force as it can. Continue reading “Undead Prophecies – Sempiternal Void (Review)”
This is the second album from US death metallers Pestilent Death.
Chapters of Depravity provides us with eight putrid tracks of underground death metal spread out over a festering 32 minutes. Continue reading “Pestilent Death – Chapters of Depravity (Review)”
This is the sixth album from Truth Corroded, an Australian death/thrash metal band.
Truth Corroded serve up over 40 minutes worth of extreme metal on Bloodlands. The band’s style mixes skull-cracking brutality with razor-sharp thrash metal. This is music to simultaneously get smashed up and lacerated by. Continue reading “Truth Corroded – Bloodlands (Review)”
USURPER ARE BACK! EVERYBODY BOW DOWN!
Ahem.
This is the sixth album from Usurper, a death/thrash/black metal band from the US. Continue reading “Usurper – Lords of the Permafrost (Review)”
Venom Prison are a UK death metal band and this is their second album.
2016’s Animus was a highlight of the year for me, and then catching them at that year’s Damnation Festival and interviewing them cemented their position as one of my favourite death metal bands that the UK has to offer. Continue reading “Venom Prison – Samsara (Review)”
Contrarian are a death metal band from the US and this is their third album.
So far Contrarian have a solid track record of delivering quality progressive/technical death metal albums; both 2015’s Polemic and 2017’s To Perceive Is to Suffer are records that I really enjoy. Continue reading “Contrarian – Their Worm Never Dies (Review)”
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