Wisconsin Death metalers Morta Skuld has since their beginnings in 1989 made a deep mark on the genre without always being given that credit when more other prominent bands are mentioned, not unknown but rarely one of the first names… Read More ›
Death Metal
As You Drown – Rat King
If you get nothing else from listening to Rat King from Swedish death metal band As You Drown you will feel refreshed and lighter from its sonic enema of the senses. With the power of a blast furnace it strips… Read More ›
Doomed from Day One – The Wasted World
From the warning sounds and impending sense of obliteration that is laid down in the opening instrumental piece ‘Dfdo’ on the new EP from UK metalers Doomed from Day One, the senses are primed and then demolished, the blistering power… Read More ›
Livarkahil – Signs Of Decay
There is forceful intensity in music and then there is Livarkahil. The word going around about the French band was positive but there was no indication for the explosive encounter awaiting the senses as the first track on their new… Read More ›
Cryptborn – Into the Grasp of the Starving Dead
Finnish band Cryptborn began its dark ascent into music in 2010 and soon after recorded their debut EP Into the Grasp of the Starving Dead. Having seen a release in cassette form via Detest Records a few short months ago… Read More ›
Rose Funeral – Gates Of Punishment
Malevolent and black heartened the new album from Cincinnati death metalers Rose Funeral is one of those releases that will do much more than get a good response upon its release. Strongly impressive, strikingly creative, and unnervingly powerful it is… Read More ›
7 Horns 7 Eyes – Convalescence
With their three track digital EP Convalescence, Seattle based technical progressive death metalers 7 Horns 7 Eyes have not only shown themselves to be a strongly expressive and powerful band but also given an indication of what their eagerly anticipated… Read More ›
Hated Embrace – Suffering of the Holy
New Jersey band Hated Embrace are another in a ever lengthening list of bands influenced by and reviving the dark corrupted old school form of death metal, recalling and revitalising a genre to transport the listener back 20 years to… Read More ›
Bones – Self Titled EP
Some bands and releases are like ticking time bombs, building up to a cataclysmic crescendo, no such formalities with Chicago band Bones, they just go off big style in your face from the first note. Like a grenade without a… Read More ›
Mordbrand – Necropsychotic
Swedish band Mordbrand despite being formed a few years back and having recorded a split 12” with English metalers Evoke in 2006 when just the duo of guitarist/bassist Bjorn Larsson and drummer Johan Rudberg, will be newcomers to the ears… Read More ›