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Nameless Grave Records \ New Jersey \ putrid death metal \ savage death metal \ Taylor Smith \ The Coven Zine \ United States
Altar of Gore – Litanies of the Unceasing Agonies (Savagely Putrid Death Metal)
Is this another case of “yep, that kind of band” or “yep, that kind of album?” In some ways, but not all, I’m very pleased to state. Altar of Gore is a fairly established member of the New Jersey disgusting metal scene, which is filled with horrid rejects like Blasphematory. Said scene is rather […]
death thrash \ Hells Headbangers \ Matt Stikker \ United States \ Washington DC
Desolus – System Shock (Satanic Sci-Fi Death Thrash)
Dang these guys don’t live too far from me. They should probably visit, spice up this area with some real music. Currently on tour with legends Spiter, Washington DC’s Desolus appeared rather quickly, and it appears that rather quickly they’re carving a niche for themselves in the darkest regions of post-apocalyptic, Satanic, sci-fi death […]
Godz Ov War Productions \ South Carolina \ Stygian Black Hand \ United States \ war metal
Primitive Warfare – Extinction Protocol (State of Nature War Metal)
Okay, this might be the first time I’ve said this, but more metal bands need to use World War I for aesthetic purposes. Not what you’re thinking, I mean that gritty, water-soaked, rat-nibbled, barbed wire strangulation kind of aesthetic. Not the aesthetic of “war is hell,” like so many have attempted, but the aesthetic […]
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 […]
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 […]
archaic death metal \ archaic thrash metal \ death thrash \ Noah Cutter Meihoff \ Transylvanian Recordings \ United States
Molten – Malicide (Archaic Heretical Death Thrash)
Goddamn. Listen, for the millionth time, cover art is so important in selling a band, a book, practically everything. Get a good artist! Case in point here’s Malicide, the latest full-length from San Francisco’s Molten. A little surprised this hasn’t received much press as of yet. Death thrash can be a generally easy sell […]
Adam Medford \ body horror \ Chaos Records \ crust metal \ d-beat \ Life After Death \ Oregon \ Strange Creature Collages \ United States
Negative Prayer – Self // Wound (Repulsive Body Horror Crust Metal)
Oooo this one has some power behind it. I guess it has to since it fits easily into the crust metal genre but yet… I don’t like dropping tags often, but Portland, Oregon’s Negative Prayer can definitely be rooted in that as well as the tradition of d-beat, yet, hmm, there’s something different here… […]
California \ crossover \ DecoNoir Art \ grossover \ Richmond \ splatterthrash \ Tankcrimes \ United States
Ghoul – Noxious Concotions (Grossover)
I’m fairly surprised I never reviewed Ghoul before. I mean this shit is right up the alley I’ve built around myself and my critics on this site. We’ve branded ourselves so deep the scar went into bone. And with Ghoul we’ve got darkness, irony, vileness, sick art, gross stage presence (with bloody, burlap hoods, […]
blackened death metal \ California \ Hells Headbangers \ Los Angeles \ Nestor Avalos \ United States
Demoncy – Diabolica Blasphemiae (Traitorous Bones Blackened Death Metal)
Though part of the original guarde of black metal in the United States, I’ve never really considered Demoncy to be black metal, though I have always considered them to be awesome. Their earlier work certainly hearkens back to the early 1990s wave from Norway, but as time went on they developed their own, Californian, […]
