To come across any small band of any style that can really grab ahold of your attention and never once let go is to come across a boon like extremely few others. In death metal, that can become especially fortuitous … Continue reading Evulse – Pustulant Spawn
Experimentalism in metal has long been one of my absolute favorite things about the sound as a whole with the many halls and corridors that any given band can take the sound is oftentimes random and never repeated by any … Continue reading Plasmodium – Towers of Silence
There truly is no shortage of death metal out there that is absolutely wreathed in awesome power the likes of which cannot be found in any other style across the entirety of the world of music, and it’s even then … Continue reading Crypts of Despair – All Light Swallowed
Speed is something that plays a much bigger part in metal than what many may realize, and it’s more likely than not that we see it approached from its two extremes: incredibly fast or immensely slow. It’s not often enough … Continue reading Arhat – Dead Life
My relationship with the exceedingly dark realm of death/doom has only been getting exponentially better over the last few years with a glorious streak presenting itself to me month after month much to my delight. It’s a trend that … Continue reading Cryptic Brood / Night Hag – Swollen With Rancid Phlegm
Much like the endless void of screams and death, the number of black/death metal bands is seemingly endless. It’s a fusion that virtually all of us are aware of in some form or another, and there are few ways to … Continue reading Malgöth – Primordial Dawn
I think it’s safe to say that Gatecreeper has cemented themselves at the forefront of modern death metal by all accounts. Only being around for eight years, the name has become synonymous with next level, hard-hitting death metal that fucking … Continue reading Gatecreeper – An Unexpected Reality
It’s from the seething, flesh-coated floor of the underground that death metal is always at home no matter how good it is or how welcoming it can seem from one band to the next, and there are rarely works that … Continue reading Marasmus – Necrotic Overlord
It’s every now and then that we get an album that really does challenge my previous conception of what I thought I was getting myself into, and it’s pretty much every single time that I find myself enjoying having my … Continue reading Stortregn – Impermanence
Any single person who pays even a little bit of attention to the reviews that I’ve been putting out for years now, one of the extreme constants in my time has been Transcending Obscurity Records. Witnessing the rise of the … Continue reading Transcending Obscurity Records – Label Sampler 2021
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