This is the debut album from Daxma, a doom/post-metal band from the US.
Now here’s an album with a lot to offer fans of nuanced, expressive music. Daxma’s mix of post-metal, doom, and neoclassical is something that should be savoured and enjoyed at length and with appreciative focus. Continue reading “Daxma – The Head Which Becomes the Skull (Review)”
Annihilation are a Portugese progressive death metal band and this is their second album.
Starting off with their debut album of enjoyable Deicide worship Against the Storm, Annihilation returned a few years ago with a different, more complex direction on The Undivided. Continue reading “Annihilation – The Undivided Wholeness of All Things (Review)”
This is the second album from French death metallers Impureza.
Impureza play death metal mixed with Iberian musical influences. This means we get acoustic and flamenco guitars, folk melodies, and Spanish lyrics, all combined with a brutal/technical death metal core. Also featuring some additional guests Continue reading “Impureza – La Caída de Tonatiuh (Review)”
This is the seventh album from Swedish blackened thrash metal band Witchery.
Hot on the heels of last year’s In His Infernal Majesty’s Service, this Swedish supergroup, (Arch Enemy, The Haunted, among others), have returned suprisingly quickly with another collection of sharp, vicious tunes. Continue reading “Witchery – I Am Legion (Review)”
Sympuls-E are a Russian melodic death metal band and this is their third album.
Apparently a rerecording of the band’s 2011 demo Зеркало Города, Mirror City is bright and shiny metal, but not without bite. Continue reading “Sympuls-E – Mirror City (Review)”
Come Back from the Dead are a Spanish death metal band and this is their latest EP.
This is old-school death metal played in the best of ways – filthy, nasty, and full of darkness. Caro Data Vermibus offers us 16 minutes of this ugliness. Continue reading “Come Back from the Dead – Caro Data Vermibus (Review)”
This is the latest EP from UK doom metal band Kroh.
Kroh are a talented bunch. My first introduction to their female-fronted incarnation was when I caught them live at the 2016 Damnation Festival, so I’m now very glad to be reviewing their latest EP. Continue reading “Kroh – Pyres (Review)”
Converge are a hardcore band from the US and this is their ninth album.
Converge should need no real introduction to fans of high quality extreme music. Suffice to say that if you haven’t yet checked them out, please do so at your earliest convenience, as, quite frankly, they’re simply one of the best bands in existence. Continue reading “Converge – The Dusk in Us (Review)”
This is the debut album from Italian doom band LaColpa.
This is filthy blackened doom, added to with some violent noise and harsh sludge. There are only three tracks on this album, but they total almost 40 minutes, and it’s clear from the very start that the band aren’t messing around. Continue reading “LaColpa – Mea Maxima Culpa (Review)”
Àrnica are a Spanish neo-folk band and this is their latest album.
The band’s blend of traditional influences and instrumentation, with modern technology and experimental soundscapes, has largely produced an intriguing and engaging end result. Continue reading “Àrnica – Cabeza de Lobo (Review)”
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