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Bronze and Bones \ Dying Victims Productions \ Germany \ speed metal \ thrash metal \ witch metal
Morbyda – Under the Spell (Witch Metal Inferno)
Damn I love this shit. For some reason, though, I didn’t at first, but this is nowhere close to a “grower,” I should have got my shit together from day one son. That’s because Morbyda are the MFing gawds of this kind of metal folks. Do you hear me folks? Is it speed metal? […]
arcane black metal \ Daniele Valeriani \ Iron Bonehead Productions \ Italy \ mystical black metal
Affliction Vector – Contra Hominem (Arcane Black Metal of Much Spellcasting)
Dang I thought metal of this type only came out of Spain. I mean, I guess, somehow, Italy has some cultural links to Spain, but whatever, let me start simple. This shit’s mystical. There’s a particular form of metal from Spain that’s developed its sound in a way that oppresses without force and depresses […]
Adam Medford \ Everlasting Spew Records \ goregrind \ Italy \ James C. Wilson \ mondogrind \ Strange Creature Collages
Golem of Gore – Ultimo Mondo Cane (Mondo Goregrind or, Perhaps, Mondogrind)
I was uncertain about reviewing this one at first because, well, goregrind sucks. But this one is coming from Italy, and the Italians certainly got their gore right in the film industry, and with the cover art for Ultimo Mondo Cane, which combines practically all of the Eurotrash horror imagery from the 1970s you […]
Aussie rock \ Australia \ death n roll \ dirty rock \ Dying Victims Productions \ Oscar Bonin \ raw rock \ raw rock n roll \ rock n roll
FLY! – …or Die! (Motorcycle Fume Huffing Dirty Aussie Rock)
Here’s something you all need a dose of, right into the nostrils and up into the brain. Dying Victim Productions has really been taking some chances with his releases in the past few years, giving due to bands no one has heard of yet, but that’s because dude has an ear for the good […]
deathgrind \ Nick Blinko \ Profound Lore Records \ United States \ Washington DC
Blood Monolith – The Calling of Fire (Ugly Deathgrind)
Yaaay I just had a colonoscopy. Thereafter, looking for blood that was not from my own nethers, I settled (very happily I might add) on Blood Monolith, the latest deathgrind from out of Washington DC, where corruption and gerontocracy reign supreme, to quell my frustrations at having to drink salt water and eat only […]
bestial death metal \ Canada \ Demoniarch Arts \ Dennis William Thomsen \ Sentient Ruin Laboratories
Prophetic Suffering – Rivalry of Thyself (Ultra-Gruesome Bestial Death Metal)
I feel like I needed this right now. I needed a warlike, unrelenting, gruesome, beat down. Leave to Sentient Ruin Laboratories, yet again, to provide the answer to my problem. Canada’s Prophetic Suffering state that their debut full-length, Rivalry of Thyself, is essentially a summoning of “pure hell,” and that’s purely sufficient to prepare […]
Adam Burke \ atmospheric death metal \ Iron Fortress Records \ Nightjar Illustration \ poetic death metal \ Pulverised Records \ Spain
Jade – Mysteries of a Flowery Dream (Poetic Death Metal)
I’ve become something of a good acquaintance with the singer of this band, not just because of Jade itself, but his other projects, and the entryway he provided into the world of the Spanish underground in all its splendor. So don’t read this as a friendly handshake, because whether or not I know him […]
Flamberge Illustration \ France \ heavy metal \ heavy speed metal \ Jawbreaker Records \ speed metal \ Woven Hoof Records
Palantyr – The Ascent & the Hunger (Triumphant Heavy Speed Metal)
I was like “that’s a weird album title” at first, until I realized this is something of a comp for what is this band’s new path of greatness. Previously under the moniker of Destrukt, France’s now-crowned Palantyr have moved away from the speed thrash direction of their earlier work into heavy speed, and in […]
blackened fairy tale metal \ blackened folk metal \ dark folk \ Germany \ Purity Through Fire
Eisenkult – Die Hölle ist hier (Blackened Fairy Tale Metal)
Is differentiation the true key to success? Yes, says Germany’s Eisenkult, who come from the Black Forest (not actually, but let’s pretend) bringing dark fables through riff and screech. There’s a particular form of black metal in their homeland that dips into the schadenfreude that imparts patterns onto the Germanic mind down to roof […]
blackened crust \ blackened death crust \ death crust \ Seven Metal Inches Records \ Svmmonivm Art \ Swedeath \ Sweden \ Swedish death metal \ Throne of Lies Records
Övervåld – Vigarv (Blackened Death Crust)
Here’s a nice ear killer. Sweden’s Övervåld thus far have been slaying alone, with nothing but street support, and honestly they’re good for it, and don’t need you, or anybody to accomplish their already clear goals. With an over-Xeroxed aesthetic in both visuals and sound, their particular approach to blackened death crust doesn’t have […]
