This is the 12th album from the veteran death metal band Deicide.
Yes, legendary death metallers Deicide have returned with their latest album Overtures of Blasphemy; 38 minutes of blistering aggression. Continue reading “Deicide – Overtures of Blasphemy (Review)”
This is the debut album from Malthusian, a blackened death metal band from Ireland.
Malthusian play a twisted, nightmarish form of blackened death metal. Across these 41 minutes the band show what they’re capable with controlled chaotic force and malignant intention. It’s cavernous, monstrous, claustrophobic, and downright nasty. Continue reading “Malthusian – Across Deaths (Review)”
Creeping Flesh are a Swedish death metal band and this is a compilation album of their previous work.
This collection contains 2014’s Unravelled by War, 2015’s Rising Terror, and 2016’s Scorched. I don’t normally review compilation releases like this, especially if I’ve covered some of the music previously, but I wanted to highlight In Times of War as I like Creeping Flesh a lot.
This is only Continue reading “Creeping Flesh – In Times of War (Review)”
This is the fifth album from German death metallers Stillbirth.
This is unrelentingly brutal death metal, the variety that uses plenty of slam and deathcore influences to batter and bruise across the 44 minutes of material here. Elements of ferocious grindcore and modern death metal can also be heard. Continue reading “Stillbirth – Annihilation of Mankind (Review)”
Carnation are a death metal band from Belgium and this is their debut album.
Carnation play old-school death metal, and on their debut album they offer up 48 minutes of the stuff to the death metal gods. Continue reading “Carnation – Chapel of Abhorrence (Review)”
Cast the Stone are a death metal band from the US and this is their latest EP.
An EP this may be, but we still get a meaty 27 minutes of material to tear into. Featuring current and ex-members of bands such as Scour, Cattle Decapitation, and Misery Index, (among others), this release draws on the individual band members’ experience, but easily stands as its own distinct entity. Continue reading “Cast the Stone – Empyrean Atrophy (Review)”
This is the third album from French death metallers Exocrine.
Playing modern technical death metal, Molten Giant gives us 35 minutes of material, as well as some pretty damn monstrous cover art. Continue reading “Exocrine – Molten Giant (Review)”
This is the fourth album from Mexican death metallers Zombiefication.
Zombiefication play death metal that’s dark, covered in underground filth, and delivered in an atypical fashion that speaks highly of the band’s talents as artists. Their music is atypical in the sense that they may take influence from several of the old-school masters, but at heart they’re firmly their own creation, and their songs are filled with interesting and unexpected nuances and subtleties. Continue reading “Zombiefication – Below the Grief (Review)”
This is the debut album from Gravewards, a Greek death metal band.
I have fond recollections of 2017’s Subconscious Lobotomy, so was pleased to see this band’s debut album appear. It’s 43 minutes of old-school death metal that’s influenced by the death metal greats from the 90s, while Continue reading “Gravewards – Ruinous Ensoulment (Review)”
Mutilate are a death metal band from the US and this is their debut album.
After enjoying All Life Ends so much I simply had to hear Tormentium. Another 38 minutes of old-school death metal that sounds so authentically 80s it could have been buried in a tomb until now? Count me in. Continue reading “Mutilate – Tormentium (Review)”
