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raw black metal \ raw blackened punk \ Sentient Ruin Laboratories \ Spain \ Stefano Della Bella
Hässlig – Apex Predator (Raw Blackened Punk)
Oh man, oh boy, oh Jesus. See that album title? Apex Predator. Are you feeling a little base? A little beta? Are you a little weakling in spirit? Are you psychologically impotent and in need of an unmedical boost? Well, listen here, Spain’s Hässlig will put bubbles in the blood, get your mouth frothing […]
crust metal \ death punk \ Finland \ hevijevi.art \ Jennika \ Prosthetic Records
Unearthly Rites – Ecdysis (Finnish DIY Crust Death)
Well, hmm. This is the second release of this type I’ve reviewed this particular week. One where there isn’t much that needs to be said about it. Everything can be read at face value. In fact, Finland’s Unearthly Rites follow some pretty standard paths in their construction of DIY crust death, yet it’s so […]
dysphoric black metal \ otherkin \ symphonic black metal \ United States
Vesseles – I Am a Demon (Dysphoric Black Metal)
Alright, so I thought really hard about reviewing this one. In the end, obviously the choice was made, but it was largely for thematic and philosophical reasons (and quite a bit of research) than it was the music. United States symphonic black metal act Vesseles aren’t pulling out stops for I Am a Demon […]
death punk \ France \ grind punk \ Iron Bonehead Productions
Profanation – Skull Crushing Violence (Blatantly Obvious Grind Punk)
There’s nothing much to say about the blatant and the obvious. You merely absorb as it appears. Consisting of members of a number of devastating bands in the French sphere of gross music, Profanation combine these efforts into what could be a one-off or new project, but either way it doesn’t matter. The reason? […]
Arifullah Ali \ kanvaskarat \ Malaysia \ Memento Mori \ Necrolatry Records \ puncture wound death metal \ Violence in the Veins
Obscurial – Heretic (Puncture Wound Death Metal)
Alright, let’s start with this is probably the best metal band to come out of Malaysia, ever. I don’t want to hear about anyone else after this, and don’t you dare try to say “well, what about X,” because I’ve heard it all and I know already. Don’t try with me. As usual I […]
Chile \ Daniel Hermosilla \ Memento Mori \ negative death metal \ Nox Fragor Art
Coffin Curse (Darkly Negative Death Metal for You to Love)
Yes, I love Chile! I want to live there! Basically every band submission I get from the country is golden. Send me a plane ticket Coffin Curse I want to hang out! Then we can celebrate your greatest release to date, The Continuous Nothing, which is rather the opposite. More like continuous awesome. In […]
Andreas Christanetoff \ Armaada Art \ existential death metal \ Hammerheart Records \ Sweden \ Swedish death metal
Sarcasm – Mourninghoul (Swedish Existential Death Metal)
This one shouldn’t have been this good. I mean, I’ve heard of Sarcasm, but I always though the name was a little, heh, sarcastic, and found it tough to step further than a few brief listens because, well, I wasn’t sure how serious they were. I curse myself for this grave error. Death metal, […]
Dying Victims Productions \ Germany \ Mario Estuardo López Morales \ Mario López \ Metal Blade Records \ retro speed metal \ retro thrash metal \ speed metal \ thrash metal
Vulture – Sentinels (Retro Speed Thrash Metal Screaming from the Pulpit)
Great example here of a band evolving over the course of its career into something greater. Germany’s Vulture are still relatively new to the whole retro thrash (with some speed) scene, but in that short time they’ve learned how to hone their craft, constantly reworking and revising before release, becoming a general force in […]
Caligari Records \ death doom \ Luxi Lahtinen \ Pulverised Records \ United States
Purulency – Transcendent Unveiling of Dimensions (More Than a Mere Demo Slimy Death Doom)
What a tangled mess of gross this one is. Get your cold, pasty hands off of me! I feel sick! I can’t think! Considering it’s rainy outside as I write this one, we’ll go with those bodily sensations. I want to feel revulsed. Tennessee’s Purulency, in this mere demo, take a different thematic approach […]
bestial black metal \ Khaos Diktator Design \ Sentient Ruin Laboratories \ Stefan Todorović \ United States
Diabolic Oath – Oracular Hexations (Unrestrained Bestial Black Metal)
Another smasher from Sentient Ruin Laboratories, let’s start there. From there let’s move to the band, Diabolic Oath, a three-piece from Portland, Oregon, that insists on making the listener hallucinate. Oracular Hexations leaves the brain and all thoughts within it disfigured. What at first appears a dark story woven by a degenerate becomes far […]
