Fragarak are an Indian progressive death metal band and this is their second album.
We first met Fragarak on their 2013 album Crypts of Dissimulation. Well, we’ve been waiting a long time for a follow up release, and now it’s here, it’s quite the monster. Continue reading “Fragarak – A Spectral Oblivion (Review)”
Winds of Plague are a deathcore band from the US and this is their fifth album.
Winds of Plague aren’t your average deathcore band, I’m very pleased to tell you. Here’s a band that have kept the core brutality of the style intact, while spreading their wings with symphonic/orchestral elements and bursts of melodic aggression. Continue reading “Winds of Plague – Blood of My Enemy (Review)”
Aosoth are a black metal band from France and this is their latest album.
This is dark, suffocating, dissonant black metal. Elements of death metal can be heard too, but these are buried by waves of blackness so deep that you could get lost in them. Continue reading “Aosoth – V: The Inside Scriptures (Review)”
It’s once more time to gather in Leeds for this year’s Damnation Festival. With another amazing lineup, this is a festival that’s a definite milestone in the yearly metal calendar.
Continue reading “Damnation Festival – Leeds University, 04/11/17 (Live Review)”
This is the second album from US deathcore/death metal band Signs of the Swarm.
Signs of the Swarm play crushing deathcore, mixing slamming death metal with vicious beats to good effect. With groovy brutality and punishing intensity, his album is an unrelenting 47 minutes of heavy aggression. Continue reading “Signs of the Swarm – The Disfigurement of Existence (Review)”
This is the second album from Oblivion, a death metal band from the US.
It seems like forever since Oblivion’s debut album Called to Rise was unleashed on an unsuspecting world, but it was only actually in 2013 that we got our first proper taste of what this band were capable of. Continue reading “Oblivion – The Path Towards… (Review)”
Aynsophar is a Hungarian one-woman progressive death metal band.
It’s always nice to hear a bit of progressive death metal, especially when done well as it is here. Continue reading “Aynsophar – Abysmal Secrets of Unknown (Review)”
Dirtyprotest are an Irish death metal band and this is their debut album.
Essentially a one-man band with a main guest singer, (and some additional ones too), Hellstorm offers up 35 minutes of classic death metal. It’s old-school and has a predilection for the Swedish style – what’s not to like? Continue reading “Dirtyprotest – Hellstorm (Review)”
This is the third album by Costa Rican death metallers Corpse Garden.
Following up from 2015’s Entheogen, Corpse Garden are back with 51 minutes of dark, evil death metal. Continue reading “Corpse Garden – IAO 269 (Review)”
It’s that special time of year once more. With yet another amazing lineup of quality bands both big and small, the UK’s Damnation Festival returns this weekend for another sold out weekend of extremity. So yes, on Saturday 4th November at Leeds University, something colossal will be happening.
It’s an absolutely great lineup, and you can see the full list of bands, including stage times, below – Continue reading “Damnation Festival 2017 – Preview – 5 Bands Not to Miss”
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