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Austin \ blackened speed metal \ blackened thrash \ Bvllmetalart \ Goat Throne Records \ Horror Pain Gore Death Productions \ Texas \ Timbul Cahyono \ United States
Sadistic Force – Midnight Assassin (Slasher Metal)
You know a band’s killer when they’ve only been around three years but sound like they’ve been around thirty. But, hey, also you can’t be riding that retro thing too hard, otherwise we just feel old. Do I want to feel nostalgic? Sure. But I want to feel young, I want to feel like […]
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Houston \ Me Saco un Ojo Records \ Moscow \ murky death metal \ Nestor Povarnin \ Rotted Life Records \ Russia \ Texas \ United States
Gosudar / Malignant Altar – Split (Murky Death Metal)
I basically loathe splits. Good stuff, sometimes, but it’s like just save those tracks for a separate release bros. It’s only a thing when bands have B-list drool and they’re like “how can we release this?” “Oh, yeah, a split!” And, in most cases, you don’t mind listening to it, but will you remember […]
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Houston \ Me Saco un Ojo Records \ Moscow \ murky death metal \ Nestor Povarnin \ Rotted Life Records \ Russia \ Texas \ United States
Abueloretrowave \ chiptunes \ cybergrind \ Dallas \ grindcore \ mathcore \ screamo \ Texas \ Zegema Beach Records
Cara Neir – Phantasmal (Cybergrind Chiptunes Screamo Horror)
Yo let me break the “don’t review after release” rule I set some years ago. Sometimes, my will be done, because rarely do I get stuff like this, and typically after release too like WTF. Like get on that earlier promo train sons. Anyway so Cara Neir came out of nowhere, or, actually, I […]
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Abueloretrowave \ chiptunes \ cybergrind \ Dallas \ grindcore \ mathcore \ screamo \ Texas \ Zegema Beach Records
Andrei Bouzikov \ brutal death metal \ Redefining Darkness Records \ Texas \ United States
Kryptik Mutation – Pulle from the Pit (Clearly Brutal Death Metal)
Oh damn we got a monster cover here whooo. Also impalement. Through an eye. Why is this happening and what does it mean? It doesn’t matter, folks, because this is Kryptik Mutation! They’re not here for the sake of clarity, unless you specifically mean brutal death metal with a legible logo. They’re absolutely clear […]

Blood Harvest Records \ cosmic death metal \ Houston \ Lucas Corte \ Texas \ United States
Universally Estranged – Reared Up in Spectral Predation (Real Cosmic Death Metal)
I knew this shit was going to be deep. Actually, better to say I knew it wanted to be deep, because it’s trying out that “cosmic death metal” thing. Whether or not it was was up to the task depended on my blackholes (ears) and my existential consumption of conflagration (brain). See? Deep shit […]

Lavadome Productions \ No Peace at the Gate \ Shaari Moth \ Technical Death Metal \ Texas
Cambion – Conflagrate the Celestial Refugium (Conundrum Inducing Technical Death Metal)
It’s been a bad week or so for promos, let me start there. Everything I’ve received has been a disappointment; either failing miserably with the art, or reaching, at best, average achievements in the music. That brings us to Texas’ Cambion. To be honest, I found this to be a goddamn conundrum at first. […]

nefarious death metal \ Nuclear War Now! Productions \ San Antonio \ Texas \ United States \ William Blake
Pneuma Hagion – Voidgazer (Noble Status Nefarious Death Metal)
Now here’s a cover I was really on the fence about, in fact pretty much leaning over to the “no way” side but the more I listened to Pneuma Hagion the more I had to accept it. I’ve received some promos from these guys before, consistently rejecting it for the usual Classical or Neoclassical […]
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Austin \ epic heavy metal \ Ken Kelly \ No Remorse Records \ Sword Worship \ Texas \ United States
Eternal Champion – Ravening Iron (SEGA! Epic Heavy Metal)
You guys been like playing that Sega Genesis Nintendo stuff man? To be honest when someone dares name themselves after a totally overrated 16-bit fighting game you can’t expect much. SEGA (you scream)! Maybe it’s just coincidence though, I don’t know, actually it is. The name Eternal Champion comes from some fantasy literature stuff, […]
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Austin \ epic heavy metal \ Ken Kelly \ No Remorse Records \ Sword Worship \ Texas \ United States
Agustin Hernández \ Goth \ Pennsylvania \ Philadelphia \ posi-punk \ Profound Lore Records \ Texas
Executioner’s Mask – Despair Anthems (A Timeline of Goth)
A fine week this has been. Nearly every genre of the dark fells into my hands, and even some brutal death rap by a sexually extreme queen of hell. So I figured we’d end it on a sad note, a tenderly painful memory of the week the most reviews were ever done at Deaf […]
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Agustin Hernández \ Goth \ Pennsylvania \ Philadelphia \ posi-punk \ Profound Lore Records \ Texas
20 Buck Spin \ blackened thrash \ dark basement thrash \ Jeremy Cook \ Texas \ thrash metal
Skeleton – S/T (Dark Basement Thrash)
This kind of thrash conjures my favorite vision. Imagine a basement in a lower-middle income, at best, town somewhere in a broken down, former industrial center of the US, probably Ohio (actually Texas here, technically). Imagine in that shit hole a local quickie gas station is the only “entertainment” and in that doldrums is […]