March proved to be this year’s strongest month for metal releases yet. I was hard-pressed to keep this list as short as it is, and any of the albums listed below are worthy of your attention. Continue reading “Monthly Overview – the Best of March 2019”
Tag: Death Metal
Interview with Contrarian 2019
Contrarian are a personal favourite of mine in the realms of progressive/technical death metal. Bridging the old-school and the new by taking strengths from both, their albums – and new platter Their Worm Never Dies in particular – are very much worth your time.
Guitarist Jim Tasikas tells us more… Continue reading “Interview with Contrarian 2019”
Applaud the Impaler – Ov Apocalypse Incarnate (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)”
Devourer – Dawn of Extinction (Review)
Devourer are a Swedish black metal band and this is their third album.
Having really enjoyed 2017’s Across the Empty Plains, Devourer’s latest album is very well-received. Containing eight tracks of black metal that’s raw, cold, and merciless, Dawn of Extinction finds Devourer continuing to progress their sound without losing any of the assets they have accumulated so far from previous releases. Continue reading “Devourer – Dawn of Extinction (Review)”
Whitechapel – The Valley (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)”
Undead Prophecies – Sempiternal Void (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)”
Pestilent Death – Chapters of Depravity (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)”
Truth Corroded – Bloodlands (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 – Lords of the Permafrost (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)”
Onirophagus – Endarkenment (Illumination Through Putrefaction) (Review)
Onirophagus are a Spanish death/doom metal band and this is their second album.
The phrase ‘crushing doom’ was made for a band like Onirophagus. Well, ‘crushing death/doom’ is more accurate I suppose, but it probably doesn’t matter too much. The operative word here is ‘crushing’. Continue reading “Onirophagus – Endarkenment (Illumination Through Putrefaction) (Review)”
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