Buckshot Facelift are a grindcore band from the US and this is their fourth album.
Here we have over 40 minutes of well-written deathgrind. The band take the brief, energetic bursts of punk and grindcore, and entwine them with the staying power of death metal, making for an album that exists on both worlds. Continue reading “Buckshot Facelift – Ulcer Island (Review)”
Warcrab are a death/sludge band from the UK and this is their second album.
There aren’t too many bands that mix death and sludge metal together, but those that do tend to be pretty notable. The Dead and Tides of Sulfur are two that spring instantly to mind. I can now add Warcrab to this short list too. Continue reading “Warcrab – Scars of Aeons (Review)”
Morbid Flesh are a Spanish death metal band and this is their second album.
This is the band’s follow up to their very enjoyable 2014 EP Embedded in the Ossuary. Continue reading “Morbid Flesh – Rites of the Mangled (Review)”
Cut Up are a death metal band from Sweden and this is their second album.
This is the kind of death metal album that just steamrolls all over you as soon as you press play. It’s a relentlessly savage monster throughout the playing time, showing no let up in its bloody commitment to knock you over and flatten you to a mushy corpse. Continue reading “Cut Up – Wherever They May Rot (Review)”
Virulent Depravity are a technical death metal band from the US and this is their debut album.
Who doesn’t love some head-turning dizzying techdeath now and again?
Although the album cover Continue reading “Virulent Depravity – Fruit of the Poisoned Tree (Review)”
This is the debut album from Finnish one-man, (rounded out with some session members), death/black metal project Cemetery Winds.
This is a competent and engrossing mix of old-school death and black metal. This sits Continue reading “Cemetery Winds – Unholy Ascensions (Review)”
This is the latest EP by US death metallers Vorzug.
This is blackened death metal. It’s an old-school concoction with dark melodies and vicious riffs. Continue reading “Vorzug – Three (Review)”
This is the latest demo from Swedish death metallers Creeping Flesh.
I like Creeping Flesh a lot. Their 2015 EP Rising Terror was a firmly enjoyable slab of the Swedish style of death metal, and it stuck out in my mind as a superior release from the genre. Continue reading “Creeping Flesh – Scorched (Review)”
This is the debut album from US thrashers Toxic Ruin.
This is thrash metal with some progressive tendencies and even Continue reading “Toxic Ruin – Subterranean Terror (Review)”
Coldfells are a blackened doom band from the US. This is their debut album.
This is a blackened doom release that really does blur the line between the two styles. Is this doom metal with a distinctly blackened feel to it, or is this black metal with a doom metal veneer? Possibly more the latter than the former, but either way, the Continue reading “Coldfells – Coldfells (Review)”
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