This is the second album from Coma Cluster Void, an experimental avant-garde metal band with an international background.
Coma Cluster Void’s debut album Mind Cemeteries was 45 minutes of dissonant, cryptic, esoteric death metal that took a few spins to fully appreciate, but when you did conquer its challenging extreme metal worldview, it yielded many rewards and treasures.
Continue reading “Coma Cluster Void – Thoughts from a Stone (Review)”
Ophis are a German doom band and this is their fourth album.
I fell strongly for the sheer heaviness and prolonged darkness of Abhorrence in Opulence. This was an hour’s worth of supremely heavy and miserable music, and The Dismal Circle is little different in this regard.
Implore are a German grindcore band and this is their second album.
What’s in a genre tag, eh? Grindcore this may be, but that appellation doesn’t tell the whole story, for that we have to expand the genre label a tad. Quite a bit actually; blackened crust deathgrind. How about that? Closer to the truth, but definitely an unwieldy mouthful. Continue reading “Implore – Subjugate (Review)”
Arkhon Infaustus are a black/death metal band from France and this is their latest EP.
After a decade of nothing, we now witness the rebirth of Arkhon Infaustus. The creature that has come crawling back out of the underworld is a fresh, reinvented version of the older one that so many people held highly, however. Continue reading “Arkhon Infaustus – Passing the Nekromanteion (Review)”
The Black Dahlia Murder are a melodic death metal band from the US and this is their eighth album.
Ahh, The Black Dahlia Murder, probably one of the finest melodic death metal bands in the world.
Since 2003’s Unhallowed the band have Continue reading “The Black Dahlia Murder – Nightbringers”
This is the third album from Archspire, a technical death metal band from Canada.
If insane technicality is your thing, but you also want your songs to be recognisable as such, then you should definitely check out the latest scorcher from Archspire. Continue reading “Archspire – Relentless Mutation”
Vorus is a solo death metal band from Romania, and this is his debut demo.
This is blackened old-school death metal; ugly, stinking, filthy, and brutal. Continue reading “Vorus – Chamber of Laments (Review)”
Eye Sea Black are an Italian metal band and this is their debut EP.
Specialising in its own brand of stylish and sharp aggression, Stigma is almost 20 minutes of modern extreme metal that hits the spot quite nicely. Continue reading “Eye Sea Black – Stigma (Review)”
Arkaik are a death metal band from the US and this is their fifth album.
This is technical/progressive death metal, showing a band that have built on the strengths of 2015’s Lucid Dawn and taken them to their logical conclusion on Nemethia. Continue reading “Arkaik – Nemethia (Review)”
This is the second album from Indian death metallers Gutslit.
I have a certain fondness for Gutslit’s 2013 debut album Skewered in the Sewer. This was an extremely enjoyable release that took brutal death metal and injected a Gorerotted-style sense of playful groove and belligerence into it, resulting in a very memorable and effective album that also made it high into my best of 2013 list. Continue reading “Gutslit – Amputheatre (Review)”
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