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Adam Yates \ candid death metal \ Everlasting Spew Records \ Minneapolis \ Minnesota \ occult death metal \ Technical Death Metal \ United States
Nothingness – Godslaughter (Candid Occult Death Metal)
Need some power for the day? Or perhaps the week? Need it to come (as a friend of mine said) with some muddiness, yet while retaining enough clarity that the main chunk of the sound is never hidden? Or as the artwork above suggests, want to splatter your face with sound? Now that I’ve […]
Memento Mori \ Milwaukee \ raw death metal \ stygian death metal \ Tony Capodilupo \ United States \ vile death metal \ Wisconsin
Horrid Mass – Nauseating Ecstatic Degeneration (Stygian Death Metal)
Sometimes, death metal bands get way too verbose. I suppose it’s a method for hiding a lack of skill. It’s like a thing, or rather a trope, that’s been around for ages now, and at this point it’s more of a trick to avoid the obvious fact that most band suck. Toss in some […]
Australia \ David Kukoľ \ death doom \ death sludge \ deathdoom \ doom metal \ Lord Serus \ Night Terrors Records \ sludge metal
Reekmind – Glints from the Crematorium (Effluvial Death Sludge)
Ah how nice it feels to finally review these guys. Australia’s Reekmind sent a promo my way for their last one, Mired in the Reek of Grief, but I passed for reasons I still regret. Generally I judge on art first, and though the cover was completely dismal (in the best way), it had […]
Belgium \ blackened punk \ death punk \ metalpunk \ necromancy \ Void Wanderer Productions
POX – :BKW: (Necromantic Blackened Punk)
God I love bands of this particular variety. Basically, assume that anything named after a disease or ailment is probably going to be good, and in the case of Belgium’s POX we find this theory sufficiently satisfied. They never specified the pox, but who needs to when there are so many to choose from […]
Dan Goldsworthy \ death \ death thrash \ Exhumed \ Gruesome \ Gus Rios \ Mantas \ Matt Harvey \ old school death metal \ old school thrash \ Relapse Records \ Rick Rozz \ Terry Butler \ United States
Left to Die – Initium Mortis (Epitaphic Epigraphic Death Thrash)
“Respect one’s elders” is a maxim repeated ad nauseum all over the world, and in the metal community it takes high importance today with this unique release, Initium Mortis. Now, experienced fans will immediately recognize in the logo of Left to Die clear references to the band Death, as well as one of their […]
bestial punk \ blackened punk \ Caligari Records \ death punk \ speed punk \ United Kingdom
ÄXE – Autogeddon (Bestial Speed Punk)
Ironic usage of an umlaut equals unironic mastery of a genre. Now, of course, the umlaut phenomenon is primarily within the realm of metal, and a theme so reused one wonders if any letters are left to dot. Has the A been blessed with the sacred bits? Certainly, but here the redundancy is avoided […]
epic metal \ fantasy metal \ France \ Gates of Hell Records \ heavy metal \ Mario Lopze \ power metal \ speed metal
Iron Slaught – Metallic Torments (Protean Heavy Speed Metal)
Talk about versatility. We have a true gathering of sages here. Few bands have I encountered who have this much ability to adapt and shift. They’re practically protean in that regard, which makes Iron Slaught’s latest full-length, Metallic Torments, the new must-own for 2026. The French excel at certain types of metal, in this […]
Bulgaria \ carcass \ deathgrind \ Denumbra Artworks \ gore metal \ goregrind \ grindcore \ Mortician \ Xtreem Music
Necromonger – Emanation of the Dying Perceptions (Bottomfeeder Goregrind)
I see something with pseudo-sophistication all over it, and often I turn the other way as it screams for attention from behind me. I got a feeling for this upon first seeing Necromonger in the promos, as we find “perceptions” not fitting with proper English in the title Emanation of the Dying Perceptions, as […]
blackened thrash \ death speed \ death thrash \ deathspeedthrash \ Domenicus van Wijnen \ Osmose Productions \ Romania
Ruyned – Profanum Sacrificium (Irrepressible Badboy Death Speed Thrash)
I’ve been looking for something rather irrepressible, and lo and behold Romania has exactly what I needed in recent days, a trio of fresh-out-of-the-womb bad boys looking for love, breaking hearts, and taking virginity through Satanic rites without giving a shit after, leaving unsuspecting egirls in their wake. I believe I’d heard something of […]
blackened death metal \ blackened noise \ blackened powerviolence \ blackened punk \ blackened war metal \ Finland \ Kakografia \ noise \ powerviolence \ Time to Kill Records \ war metal
Hoc Est Bellum – Filth Majesty (Blackened Death Noise)
I didn’t really feel like thinking this week. We’re already halfway through, and that could change, but before it does I need to show you all how to lay out the smash with pure instinct. Finland’s Hoc Est Bellum (Latin for “This is War”) are another gem to add to the ever-growing list of […]
