Volume 3 of prime Decapitated continues to further polish the diamond that is this brand of high-octane fury from the Polish death metal savants. The previous effort ‘Nihility’ ...
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Let’s have another apocalyptic thrashy death metal album, I guess? This is a nice, but not always great collection of melodic death metal tracks, with some nice energy ...
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Comments Off on Review: Vermocracy “s/t”
As soon as I heard this I was immediately taken back to the Benediction we have all come to love as I have really been trying to absorb ...
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Comments Off on Review: Benediction “Scriptures” [Nuclear Blast / Rough Trade]
Wonderfoul music (yes, “wonder-foul”) Great albums often have an ability to use fairly ordinary sounding patterns which instead of coming across as stereotypical feel utterly familiar and at ...
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Comments Off on Review: Cattle Decapitation “Monolith of Inhumanity” [Metal Blade Records]
In many cases there is a risk for many young bands to slip into cliche and plagiarism, especially when they decided to play music in such established genres ...
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Comments Off on Review: Spirit Adrift “Enlightened In Eternity” [Century Media Records]
Melodic folk death metal band Twisted Mist from French Reims this year has released their third album “Orbios” through Music-Records, in the same charming medieval style. Their music ...
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After three years the French death metalheads Skelethal have returned with their second full-length album “Unveiling the Threshold” with the help of the music label Hells Headbangers. They’ve ...
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Comments Off on Review: SKELETHAL “Unveiling the Threshold” [Hells Headbangers]
This is an interestingly darker take on power metal. You get all the nice power metal ingredients, like the fast riffs, belting vocals and epic lyrical themes, but ...
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Comments Off on Review: Harmonize “Warrior in the Night”
Elffor is a fantastic band that I have neglected for far too long. I purchased the re-recorded version of ‘Son of the Shades’ in 2017 and was perpetually ...
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Comments Off on Review: Elffor “Age of Blackness” [GS Productions]
By the mid-90’s doom/death metal was all over the place and Mythological Cold Towers were one of the earlier doom/death metal bands to rise from Brazil. Sphere of ...
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Comments Off on Review: Mythological Cold Towers “Sphere of Nebaddon: The Dawn of a Dying Tyffereth” [Sound Riot Records]
Usually I try to introduce the band in the beginning of review but in case of Alleyway I just put a quote from press release, because it can’t ...
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Comments Off on Review: Alleyway “After Dark” [Sliptrick Records]
The following statement will make sense by the end of this review – Anaal Nathrakh are just in it for the money. This is something that has been ...
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Comments Off on Review: Anaal Nathrakh “Endarkenment” [Metal Blade Records]
Every two or three years the Indonesian avant-garde pioneers Kekal pleases the audience with the new release, this year they have released the 12th full-length “Quantum Resolution” through ...
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Ukrainian band Midgard has released three full-length albums during five years of existence, and this year they have released conceptual folk album “Tales of Kreia” (via the label ...
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Crippled Black Phoenix was formed in 2004 when multi-instrumentalist Justin Greaves, associated with such bands like Electric Wizard and Iron Monkey came to idea to play his own ...
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Comments Off on Review: Crippled Black Phoenix “Ellengæst” [Season Of Mist]
Utgard is a wonderful collection of black metal and folk songs. Enslaved’s creativity, their talent at mixing different genres together and making truly memorable tracks, are as strong ...
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Comments Off on Review: Enslaved “Utgard” [Nuclear Blast Records]
Jake E’s brainchild Amaranthe is alive and kicking very well even after his leaving in 2017: a year after, in 2018 the band released Helix and now in ...
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Comments Off on Review: Amaranthe “Manifest” [Nuclear Blast]
This is some death metal, mixed with other styles, that feels like a real trip through death and the afterlife. It’s kind of overwhelming, but a lot of ...
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Comments Off on Review: Draghkar “At The Crossroads Of Infinity” [Unspeakable Axe Records]
The project of Esoteric musicians Greg Chandler and Kris Clayton Self Hypnosis this year has released their debut album “Contagion of Despair” via the Finnish well-known extreme label ...
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Comments Off on Review: Self Hypnosis “Contagion of Despair” [Svart Records]
Let me start by saying this is everything I had hoped it would be. The drumming of Mike Smith (Ex-Suffocation) is amazing as always for all you drumming ...
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Comments Off on Review: VORACIOUS SCOURGE “In Death” [Massacre Records]
