As a death metal band in the metal world of today you have got to find a way to set yourself apart from others. Some try moving forward and expanding the reaches of death into other genres, straight up mixing it with … Continue reading Abyssus – Once Entombed…
There are some people out there in the death metal community who firmly believe that the best kind of death metal is the kind where you cannot understand what’s going on, and while that remains true in a lot of … Continue reading Imperium – Sacramentum
Ah, the much talked about masters of symphonic death metal have returned to us at last! I’ve never really been one for Fleshgod Apocalypse as I could never really get into it but have never said I hated what I … Continue reading Fleshgod Apocalypse – The Fool (single)
Death and thrash metal have always been a pair that have for the most part led to a lot of great albums and bands where everything is raw, fast, and unrelenting. I’m not saying Ripper’s upcoming album “Experiment of Existence” … Continue reading Ripper – Experiment of Existence
Oh, what’s a word that I can make up to describe this album? Riff-a-licious? Yeah, that should cover it. If you have ever fucking thought the thought “I wonder if there’s anything happening in the Indian death metal scene” then … Continue reading Primitiv – Immortal and Vile
For the past year or so, I’ve been in a loose partnership with the Indian record label/webzine/PR company known as Transcending Obscurity which is a major player in the metal scene in India as they sign multitudes of bands from … Continue reading Transcending Obscurity Label Sampler: Volume 1
The beauty that is a debut album is never lost on me, or you for that matter. They are what bands (should, anyway) put their blood, sweat, and anything else that is metal into as it will contain all that … Continue reading Firespawn – Shadow Realms
I remember hearing Triumvir Foul’s first demo, “An Oath of Blood and Fire”, and thinking that it was some of the best old school death metal that I had ever heard and it could not get better than that any … Continue reading Triumvir Foul (self-titled)
Anyone who says the words “old school death metal is gone” has clearly never heard Supreme Carnage before. These fine gentlemen from Germany have come together for their second album, “Sentenced by the Cross”, which in its essence is an … Continue reading Supreme Carnage – Sentenced by the Cross
After hearing the single “Ubiety” off of this album weeks ago I knew for a fact that “Heavy Over the Home” was going to be three things: (1) intense to the bitter end, (2) it was quite possibly the last … Continue reading Sanzu – Heavy Over the Home
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