Elder Devil are a grindcore band from the US and this is their debut EP.
Featuring a member of Keeper, (who play slow, crushingly heavy doom) – at just under 14 minutes in length, this entire release is shorter than some Keeper songs.
The, (very capable), singer is also in Cabin Fire, so this is a duo that isn’t without experience, and it shows. Continue reading “Elder Devil – Graves Among the Roots (Review)”
Grizzly are a grindcore band from Canada and this is their debut album.
Clocking in at just under 17 minutes, this is slightly deceptive as almost a third of the time is devoted to a surprisingly faithful cover of Pantera’s Mouth for War. Continue reading “Grizzly – Reaper (Review)”
This is the third album from Mutation, a UK hardcore band.
Featuring Ginger from The Wildhearts, this is a very different proposition to the kind of material he usually produces. Continue reading “Mutation – III: Dark Black (Review)”
Apes are a dark hardcore band from Canada and this is their debut album.
I love it when you find a band that don’t limit themselves to what they play, exploring multiple genres and bringing everything together with a love of extremity and savage delivery. Continue reading “Apes – Lightless (Review)”
This is the second album from Scalpel, a death metal band from the US.
We haven’t heard much from Scalpel since 2013’s Sorrow and Skin. This was one of the earliest reviews I ever did, (as you can probably gather by reading it), so the band have always stuck in my mind. It’s great to catch up with them almost four years later. My, where does the time go? Continue reading “Scalpel – Methods to Delusion (Review)”
Unclean One is a one-man grindcore outfit from Sweden and this is his debut release.
Now here’s something short, barbed, and nasty for you. There’s less than two minutes of material compressed into these four tracks, but what this short release lacks in quantity it makes up for in quality. Continue reading “Unclean One – I, Tyrant (Review)”
This is the debut album from French death metal band Balance of Terror.
Balance of Terror play brutal death metal with lashings of grindcore thrown in to really help them make a mess. Continue reading “Balance of Terror – World Laboratory (Review)”
Maou Mindu are a deathgrind band from Canada and this is their debut EP.
Gotta love deathgrind. Taking the direct, lethal assault of grindcore and combining it with the extra depth that death metal can allow, it frequently marries the two together in strong and sexy ways. In the case of Maou Mindu, the results are very sexy indeed. Continue reading “Maou Mindu – Grind Against Humanity (Review)”
Onryō are an Italian grindcore band and this is their debut EP.
Described in the press blurb as a mix of deathgrind and mathcore, Mūto is pretty much exactly that. It’s good stuff. Very good stuff, in fact. Continue reading “Onryō – Mūto (Review)”
Kuujeojabenojujanomiashikushija is a one-man, (I think), experimental death metal band from the US, (I think). This is the project’s second release, (I think).
Yep, I don’t really know much about this, other than the fact that this is 20 minutes of experimental death metal that does more right than it does wrong. Continue reading “Kuujeojabenojujanomiashikushija – HHEOALLE (Review)”
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