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Review: Dead Sleep – Repulsion

I threw this on expecting some decent Swedish thrash and ended up liking it more than I thought I would! Repulsion is only five tracks,...

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Review: GOLD SPIRE – Steps into Shadow [Awakening Records]

Steps into Shadow took me a while to figure out. Not because it’s especially difficult, but because every time it seemed ready to settle into...

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Review: DEUS SABAOTH – Distortion of Lies [Paragon Records]

I wasn’t familiar with Deus Sabaoth before this album, which is probably why Distortion of Lies ended up being a pleasant surprise. The Ukrainian project...

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Review: HELL TREPANNER – The Consecration of Eternal Impurity [Awakening Records]

Fuck yes. This is exactly the kind of death metal I needed today! Hell Trepanner come from Lima, Peru and apparently have no interest whatsoever...

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Review: Maneating Orchid – Cold Logic [Subcontinental Records]

Holy shit! Every now and then an album comes along that completely derails whatever you were planning to listen to that day. Cold Logic did...

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Death Metal Tribute to Ozzy: Final Lineup, Release Date & Artwork Revealed

Death Metal Promotion has confirmed the release date, final lineup, and cover artwork for the compilation Death Metal Tribute to OZZY. The album will be released digitally...

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Review: HECATE ENTHRONED – The Corpse of a Titan, A Lament Long Buried [M-Theory Audio]

After seven years since Embrace Of The Godless Aeon, I wasn’t sure what to expect, but they actually came through. This feels like proper Hecate...

Interview: Dead Sleep

Dead Sleep return with a sharper, more stripped-down attack on Repulsion, an EP that trades ornamentation for instinct and discomfort. In this conversation, Anna Wagner...

Interview: VARMIA

Poland’s VARMIA have never approached black metal as simple songwriting. With their new album, the band push deeper into a world where ritual, ancestry, landscape...

Interview: OLD MOON

Emerging from the Pacific Northwest, Old Moon channel grief, isolation, and emotional vulnerability into a sound that blends black metal atmosphere with melodic death metal...

Interview: FUZZING NATION

Greek heavy rock trio Fuzzing Nation talk about their debut album Mothertruck, a concept record that builds its own dusty, post-apocalyptic world without losing the...

Interview: HECATE ENTHRONED

For over three decades, Hecate Enthroned have remained one of the defining names of the UK symphonic black metal underground, balancing grand atmosphere with the...

Interview: Warthrash

Colombia’s Warthrash have spent years sharpening their sound from raw thrash aggression into something darker, heavier, and far closer to classic death metal. With No...

Interview: HELL TREPANNER

Peru’s HELL TREPANNER aren’t interested in modernizing death metal or polishing its edges. Since their formation, the band has remained devoted to the raw violence,...

Interview: ABSTRACTED

Brazil’s ABSTRACTED have never been a band interested in technical excess for its own sake, but with Hiraeth they sound more focused, emotional, and confident...

Interview: Maneating Orchid

For more than a decade, Maneating Orchid have been creating some of the most chaotic and unpredictable extreme music coming out of India’s underground. With...

Interview: DEUS SABAOTH

It hasn’t been long since their debut, but DEUS SABAOTH have already moved forward with Distortion of Lies. I spoke with them about how the...

Interview: ANUBIS

ANUBIS have gone through constant change over the past few years, with shifting lineups and evolving ideas shaping their direction. Speaking with the band about...

Interview: Sleeping Giant

Sleeping Giant has just released The Beauty of Obliteration, a six-track live recording. I spoke with Árni Björn Björnsson (guitars) about the approach behind the...

Interview: Papa Necrose

Hailing from Salvador, Bahia, a city with a deep but often overlooked extreme metal history, Papa Necrose have been grinding their way through the underground...