This is the debut album from this Swedish thrash metal band.
Defiatory wear their Bay Area thrash influences on their collective sleeves, yet still manage to sound current and relevant despite this. They combine this classic sound with a strong production and elements of the more modern thrash styles. The resulting album is a clash of old and new, one which the band successfully resolve into some very enjoyable songs. Continue reading “Defiatory – Extinct (Review)”
This is the debut release by Norwegian black metallers Gjendød.
Playing blistering black metal of the 90s Norwegian style, Gjendød show exactly what they’re made of during these 21 minutes.
And what are they made of, you might ask? Well, it seems to be frost, cold, ice and all things winter. Continue reading “Gjendød – Gjendød (Review)”
This is the second album from Korpse, who are a death metal band from the Netherlands.
This is brutal death metal with a hearty slam component. The band have a powerful sound and really go for the kill.
Heavy riffs rain heavily like a downpour as the band do their absolute best to flatten you. Blast beats and pounding drums make for brutal companions as the band savagely try to attack everything in sight. Continue reading “Korpse – Unethical (Review)”
This is the début album from Tides of Sulfur, a death/sludge metal band from the UK.
Like The Dead, Tides of Sulfur combine death and sludge metal together into a hideous, swampy mass. Also like The Dead, it’s hard to know whether to categorise them as death metal or sludge metal. Essentially it doesn’t really matter, I suppose, as the band manage to provide a pretty good synthesis of the two on Extinction Curse.
This is heavy, heavy, heavy. Continue reading “Tides of Sulfur – Extinction Curse (Review)”
Temple Nightside are a blackened death metal band from Australia and this is their second album.
The first thing that attracted me to this album was the cover. Mysterious and ominous; the music naturally follows from this too. Also like the cover, the music is quite terrifying when you stop, really pay attention to it and let its dark atmospheres seep into you.
This is music that reeks of the bestial underground; the region that’s inhabited by Continue reading “Temple Nightside – The Hecatomb (Review)”
Wederganger and Laster both play black metal and are both from the Netherlands. They have teamed up for this very tasty split.
Wederganger contribute one song, Klaroenen Van de Dood, lasting almost 15 minutes. They’ve been featured on this site before with their début album Halfvergaan Ontwaakt, which was an enjoyable listen that fused orthodox black metal with epic, folk influences.
On this split the band show their predilection for Darkthrone/Satyricon-styled grooves Continue reading “Wederganger/Laster – Split (Review)”
Vow of Thorns are a post-black metal band from Canada, and this is their début album.
This is post-black metal with liberal lashings of the depressive and doom styles, and a taste for the progressive too.
The songs have a depressive black metal feel to them, coming from their general demeanour and the melodies used. Continue reading “Vow of Thorns – Farewell to the Sun (Review)”
Monolithe are a French doom band, and this is their sixth album.
Monolithe are no stranger to this site, having been covered previously here, here and here. This latest album is the second part, a companion release, as it were, to their last one, Epsilon Aurigae, and continues their evolution away from their original funeral doom style into uncharted territories.
Like Epsilon Aurigae, Zeta Reticuli sees the band keeping aspects of funeral doom, but adding increasingly progressive influences to their sound. It also sees them keeping the same format – three songs, 15:00 minutes each, exactly. Continue reading “Monolithe – Zeta Reticuli (Review)”
This is the début EP from this Indian blackened death metal band.
Think of bands like Behemoth and Belphegor – bands that combine the brutality of death metal with the occult malevolence of black metal. This is the world that Nogrod inhabit.
This is either black metal with a death metal influence, or blackened death metal, depending Continue reading “Nogrod – Abstruce Dismal (Review)”
This is the sixth album from Revocation, a US death/thrash metal band.
Revocation have been steadily building a solid reputation for themselves over the years, and when you look at their latest release it’s easy to see why.
Here we have a band that combines death metal, thrash metal, technicality and even a bit of Continue reading “Revocation – Great Is Our Sin (Review)”
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