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Cognitive (self-titled)

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 I think that just by looking at the cover art that we can all agree that this is some intense death metal. Cognitive’s self-titled debut album really shows that this band has a goal: to make the best death metal that they can while emphasizing the “death” as much as possible. And so far with this album, they’re doing pretty damn good. This album straight from the get-go comes out at you with all guns blazing, kicking names, and making your goddamn ears bleed. Each song off of this is hardcore and intense in every sort of way when it … Continue reading Cognitive (self-titled)

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Feared – My Grief, My Sorrow (single)

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I still remember the first time I heard Feared’s fourth album, “Vinter”, almost a year ago and feeling the awesomeness that Feared is and the talent that they have, and I thought they couldn’t get any better. Well, now they’re back with their fifth full length album and it shows me that I haven’t been more wrong about anything else in my life. Their new single “My Grief, My Sorrow” that they just released today is as great as their previous releases and demonstrates that Feared have not lost their touch one bit. This song is heavy, it deals with … Continue reading Feared – My Grief, My Sorrow (single)

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Witch of the Waste – Made of Teeth

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 When a band this unknown puts out an album as hardcore and insane as this it only shows that Witch of the Waste has the talent of veterans when it comes down to making an amazing album. “Made of Teeth” is what it sounds like – an absolutely raw album that is filled with brutality that is relentless in each and every song. From the very beginning of this EP it is clear that Witch of the Waste have come to make a point and that point is thaty’re a force to be reckoned with and has come to kick … Continue reading Witch of the Waste – Made of Teeth

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Krueger – Return to Death

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 When people talk about a band of today that does old school death metal does it right I want their first goddamn thought to be Krueger’s upcoming “Return to Death” because this album has the whole fucking nine yards when it comes down to old school death done fantastically. This album has all the works down to the cover art with the vocals ripping through your ears after the guitars and drums tenderize your headset and then your brain itself. Just the raw, brutal feel of this album is something that a lot of bands have, yes, but forming it … Continue reading Krueger – Return to Death

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Theories – Regression

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 From now on whenever I think of raw metal I will think of Theories’ debut album “Regression” because this shit is more raw than steak still attached to a live cow. This album from the very beginning is extremely fast paced and brings the feel of death metal alongside the hardcore grind metal that is ever so present throughout the entirety of “Regression” with the super intense vocals that are some of the most intense I’ve heard for a while that went so well with guitars that seem like they’re purposely made to create a sound that will make ears … Continue reading Theories – Regression

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Veld – Daemonic: The Art of Dantalian

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 An album that is seven years in the making is bound to build up some sort of hype, and even more when the album is said to take influence from bands like Behemoth and Decapitated. Veld has done all of that and pulled it off fantastically with their upcoming death metal album “Daemonic: The Art of Dantalian” because this entire album is heavy. It’s fast. It’s loud. It’s fucking badass. The fact that the album does sound like a mash-up between Behemoth and Decapitated just makes it all the more better with its brutally gruesome feel to it with the harsh vocals … Continue reading Veld – Daemonic: The Art of Dantalian

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Piah Mater – Memories of Inexistence

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 Bruh . . . real talk . . . I don’t think a band, much less a death metal band, has ever tried to be more progressive and succeeded more than Piah Mater has with their late 2014 album “Memories of Inexistence”. This Brazilian duo (yes, duo!) has done an absolutely marvelous job with this album with the vocals that vary from the traditional sound of death metal to more soothing and calmer vocals. Now I know that sounds like metalcore and surely some of you might get mad at that idea, but this is far from metalcore. Far. So shut up. The … Continue reading Piah Mater – Memories of Inexistence

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Chugger – Human Plague

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 If there was ever a groove death metal album that practically made me shit my pants and leave me stunned in my chair then Chugger has made that album for me. The riffs in their upcoming album “Human Plague” are the stuff of dreams for metal heads like me that love anything with a great beat and Chugger brings heaps of that for this entire 11-track beast of an album. And if there’s anybody out there that likes their death metal vocals but don’t like the super fast guitars then don’t worry because that’s exactly what groove metal is: fast … Continue reading Chugger – Human Plague

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The Passion of Our Souls – Soulmates

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 The thought of melodic death metal and pop metal being fused into on has honestly never come across my mind until I saw this album. The Passion of Our Souls has created an album with a female vocalist that has a very raw set of vocals in between choruses, but during the chorus is where the pop metal comes in with the guitars still staying relatively the same but the vocals start singing instead of the sound that I can only call “the death metal voice”. We should all have a rough idea of what that sounds like. While I … Continue reading The Passion of Our Souls – Soulmates

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Apostate – Time of Terror

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 Doom metal is renowned as being slow and heavy as metal comes, and they’re right, but there aren’t a lot of bands that still cling onto that really old school doom that not many remember much less pull off exceedingly well. Apostate has gone back to that lost era and has created an album that brings that era to the present with their 5-track beast of an album “Time of Terror” with its crushing riffs and the combination with death metal gives a real gruesomely harsh texture to the songs that makes them feel much more than 7+ minute songs. … Continue reading Apostate – Time of Terror