This is the third album from French deathgrinders Putrid Offal.
Wow, has it really been ten years since 2015’s Mature Necropsy? That’s depressing. Less depressing is that we have a new Putrid Offal album to ease the terrible passage of time. With 35 minutes of new material, Obliterated Life is a wrecking ball of deathgrind nastiness. Continue reading “Putrid Offal – Obliterated Life (Review)”
Avulsed are a Spanish death metal band and this is their seventh album, (or eighth, if you include Deathgenerations).
It’s been sooooooo long since the last Avulsed album. 2013, in fact – Ritual Zombi. The band haven’t been totally dormant though, as 2015 brought us the EP Altar of Disembowelment, and then over the following two years we were subjected to a whole a feast of gore in Deathgenerations and Night of the Living Deathgenerations. Arising from personal tragedy, 2023 then teased us with the two-track Extraterrestrial Carnage, which whet the appetite for more quite considerably. And more, we now have. Continue reading “Avulsed – Phoenix Cryptobiosis (Review)”
Avulsed are a death metal band from Spain. This is their latest EP.
Has it really been so long since Night of the Living Deathgenerations, and even longer since we had any new material from the mighty Avulsed, with 2016’s Altar of Disembowelment? Well, it’s great to have some new Avulsed once more. Continue reading “Avulsed – Extraterrestrial Carnage (Review)”
Yskelgroth are a black metal band from Spain and this is their second album.
Featuring the vocalist from the mighty Avulsed, Bleeding of the Hideous is a 33-minute mix of black and death metal that’s ferocious and harsh, yet not without depth and substance. Continue reading “Yskelgroth – Bleeding of the Hideous (Review)”
This is the third album, (or their fourth, if you include 2017’s covers album), from Frozen Dawn, a Spanish black metal band.
The Decline of the Enlightened Gods is the follow up to 2014’s Those of the Cursed Light, and contains 50 minutes of melodic black metal, (which includes a Necrophobic cover). Delivering a Continue reading “Frozen Dawn – The Decline of the Enlightened Gods (Review)”
This is the debut album from US death metal band Wharflurch.
Across six tracks and 35 minutes, Wharflurch deliver a doom-infested slab of malformed, rancid death metal.
Wharflurch’s death metal contains an experimental edge that’s been dulled by humid rot, but is no less striking and potent for it. Continue reading “Wharflurch – Psychedelic Realms ov Hell (Review)”
Skinless are a death metal band from the US and this is their sixth album.
This is the follow up to 2015’s highly enjoyable Only the Ruthless Remain. Okay, so let’s get the obvious out of the way first – Savagery is an album which is appropriately named. As I say, an obvious observation, I know, but fitting given the circumstances. This is blatant, unsubtle music for smashing skulls to. Continue reading “Skinless – Savagery (Review)”
Avulsed are a veteran Spanish death metal band and this is their latest live album.
Boasting 22 tracks, this is a comprehensive and suitably brutal memento of the Avulsed live experience. The Continue reading “Avulsed – Night of the Living Deathgenerations (Review)”
Avulsed are a Death Metal band from Spain. This is their latest EP.
Avulsed are one of the best Death Metal bands in the world. Sorry, but that’s just a fact. Ever since I first got Stabwound Orgasm in 1999, I’ve been hooked, and that album still remains one of the best of the genre.
Their last album Ritual Zombi was full of gruesome goodies, and on this latest EP, we get a short 23 minutes of brutality, comprising 4 originals and a Black Sabbath cover.
The Avulsed seal of quality we’ve come to expect from these veterans is firmly stamped all over these tracks and the music is full of well-written songs that are catchy, memorable and filled with meaty Death Metal morsels.
Their venerated singer still sounds like the father of all Cookie Monsters and his voice, as usual, is cavernous with aggressive growls sounding larger than life and twice as deadly.
If you don’t know Avulsed, (tsk tsk), then just know that they play Classic Death Metal with plenty of catchy riffs, licks and brutal heaviness.
The production is heavy, clear and wrapped in an odour of entrails. The instruments all shine when they need to and everything is balanced and perfectly covered in blood.
Another top-quality release from Avulsed. Let’s hope they reign in bloody chunks for many years to come.
This is the début album of Spanish Death Metal band Aposento.
Take a look at the album art. If that doesn’t scream DEATH METAL at you at then I don’t know what does. Top work.
Aposento have been around for a very, very long time but this is the first album they’ve actually released. Kind of crossing the sound of bands like Avulsed and Deicide, Aposento offer us in-your-face Death Metal with an understanding of what makes a good song catchy and memorable while simultaneously piling on the brutality.
A strong, solid sound increases the impact the songs have with the riffs and pounding drums working in unison to plough down anything in front of it.
Vocally the singer is deep and follows the Avulsed school of guttural noises.
The songs take elements of Old-School Death Metal and merge them with a more timeless style of Death Metal akin to Cannibal Corpse’s USDM in the sense that it’s not ultra-modern but it’s not completely Old-School either; rather it contains elements of the timeless Classic style. Ultimately this is Death Metal, and no-one would have trouble recognising this for what it is.
Quality Death Metal played by lifers who know their business.
Wonderbox Metal 