Unaussprechlichen Kulten are a death metal band from Chile and this is their fourth album.
This is dark, Lovecraft-inspired death metal from a band we’ve met before with 2014’s wickedly enjoyable Baphomet Pan Shub-Niggurath.
I was wondering how they could top such a monstrosity of an album, but it seems that they have managed to do this with ease. Continue reading “Unaussprechlichen Kulten – Keziah Lilith Medea (Chapter X) (Review)”
This is the latest release from US hardcore bruisers Primal Rite.
This is a twisted crossover mix of hardcore and metal, weaving punk and death/thrash influences together into three furiously ugly tracks. Continue reading “Primal Rite – Sensory Link to Pain (Review)”
This is the debut album from Danish blackened death metallers Vile Retribution.
With a strong melodic streak, Global Chaos mixes death and black metal together across 41 minutes. Continue reading “Vile Retribution – Global Chaos (Review)”
Maze of Sothoth are an Italian death metal band and this is their debut album.
Maze of Sothoth play dark death metal that’s influenced by the likes of Morbid Angel and HP Lovecraft.
Starting off the album with a short ambient track that’s actually quite unnerving and unsettling, when Continue reading “Maze of Sothoth – Soul Demise (Review)”
This is the second album from Spanish death metallers Necroven.
Necroven worship at the altar of old-school death metal and serve up Primordial Subjugation with a visceral assault on the senses. Aggressive 90s death metal styles are smashed together at high speed to create 36 minutes of music that’s a joyful ride through everything dark, macabre and brutal. Continue reading “Necroven – Primordial Subjugation (Review)”
Here we have a short split between death metallers Lago and Calm Hatchery, from the US and Poland, respectively.
Lago’s 2014 album Tyranny was an album that had a kind of darkly melodic brutality to it. It saw the band balance their style somewhere between the old-school and the new, to great effect. Continue reading “Lago/Calm Hatchery – Split (Review)”
Vircolac are an Irish death metal band and this is their debut EP.
This is a band that have been firmly influenced by the old-school. It’s classic-styled death metal that firmly puts the emphasis on songs and atmosphere, as opposed to mindless speed, technicality or similar such stuff. Continue reading “Vircolac – The Cursed Travails of the Demeter (Review)”
Venom Prison are a UK death metal band and this is their debut album.
Mixing heavy death metal with a whiff of the hardcore good stuff, Venom Prison are an aggressive and nasty piece of work.
The band seem to have quite a few strings to their bow. We mainly get high-energy brutality, powered Continue reading “Venom Prison – Animus (Review)”
This is the fifth album from Bestial Deform, a Russian death metal band.
Bestial Deform were created in 1990, so it’s safe to say they have a lot of experience playing death metal. This is their first album since 2005 and features both new songs and older ones that have been re-recorded.
The band play a Continue reading “Bestial Deform – …Ad Leones (Review)”
This is the debut album from US death metal band Blood Incantation.
Blood Incantation play death metal with plenty of atmosphere and technical skill. This is a band who have gazed towards the night sky, saw the vast darkness, and pay homage to that empty malevolence via the medium of underground music that’s less restricted and more expansive than your average death metal band. Continue reading “Blood Incantation – Starspawn (Review)”
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