This is the fourth album from Norwegian progressive/melodic death metal band In Vain.
In Vain offer us 42 minutes of progressive death metal with a melodic death/black metal edge. It’s a well-received offering, and Currents is a satisfying and well-written album. Continue reading “In Vain – Currents (Review)”
Xenosis are a progressive/technical death metal band from the US and this is their third album.
I enjoyed the band’s 2015 album Sowing the Seeds of Destruction, so it’s great to see that their next release is now here. Continue reading “Xenosis – Devour and Birth (Review)”
This is the debut album from The Last of Lucy, a progressive/technical death metal band from the US.
This is technical death metal, with flaming riffs and a predilection for chaos. Mixing in grindcore, mathcore, jazz, progressive, electronic, and classical influences, this is a complex and lethal strain of modern death metal. Continue reading “The Last of Lucy – Ashvattha (Review)”
This is the latest EP from Indian progressive death metal band Eccentric Pendulum.
Featuring the vocalist of Gutslit and Godless, Eccentric Pendulum is a different affair to those worthy death metal bands. Continue reading “Eccentric Pendulum – Tellurian Concepts (Review)”
Annihilation are a Portugese progressive death metal band and this is their second album.
Starting off with their debut album of enjoyable Deicide worship Against the Storm, Annihilation returned a few years ago with a different, more complex direction on The Undivided. Continue reading “Annihilation – The Undivided Wholeness of All Things (Review)”
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)”
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)”
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)”
Neck of the Woods are a progressive metal band from Canada and this is their debut album.
After being suitably impressed with the band’s 2015 self-titled EP, I must admit that I’ve been quite excited and looking forward to hearing some more material from them. Continue reading “Neck of the Woods – The Passenger (Review)”
Horrified are a UK death metal band and this is their third album.
The progression from Horrified’s old-school death metal debut album Descent into Putridity and their sleeker melodic death metal incarnation on last year’s Of Despair was both marked and accomplished. Continue reading “Horrified – Allure of the Fallen (Review)”
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