It has been about 3 years, but Czechia’s five piece Grindcore effort Amoclen are continuing their lengthy ‘medically focused’ music by releasing another album prescribed for the masses. While some of the tracks were featured in their split back in 2021, “Grindcorization” is a socially charged piece that continues with tracks that continue to focus...

08/01/2025

Artefacts hail from Belgium and are making a very big splash with their debut album “The Titan Chronicles Part II.” While some might wonder why they didn’t start with “Part I…”, a lot of great pieces of art have started in the middle (Like the Star Wars films for instance). Artefacts create something that is like cinematic Metal, blending a mix of...

06/01/2025

This has been a good year for Metal all around, and it’s been a while since I could say that. If 2023 was a year for Death Metal, 2024 was the year for comeback records. Bands that have been defunct for almost 10 years have come back swinging hard, some with great success like Brodequin, Job For a Cowboy, Darkest Hour, Nachtmystium and Kittie and o...

03/01/2025

Decreation are a relatively new Death Metal band from Finland formed by the members of Pyre of Hypocrisy (guitarists Frank and Tape) in 2022 and over the last few years have recruited others like drummer Tomi who was also formerly a part of Pyre and later Heikki of Amongst the Ashes and Pekko of Infected Priest. Their debut EP “Flesh Easter” is ver...

30/12/2024

The Swiss band Calcined presents their third album, "To Rot In A Honeybeam", under the powerful French label Great Dane Records. Formed in 2008, they released a demo in 2009, followed by a split and then an EP, before finally delivering their debut album "Tormenting Attractions" in 2015. This was followed by "Discipline" (2018), and after a few yea...

23/12/2024

Spain’s solo act Mirror has been around for a long time and has been quite prolific over the years ever since 1998. Rooting itself in the core of the bitter sound of Doom Death with Gothic touches but not as overt as other bands like My Dying Bride out there, one can hear touches of the more Sludge/ Stoner Doom amongst the Death Doom on the latest...

17/12/2024

Vidres A La Sang is no stranger to the Brutalism site as we’ve reviewed them at least twice, and we get the honor of writing on them again two years later since their last effort with the band’s sixth full length album, ”Virtut del desencis.” For those that know this four piece well from Spain, they know that what these guys put out is a far cry fr...

11/12/2024

U.K.’s Gorebringer wastes no time in delivering new music as they deliver their third full length album, “Condemned To Suffer” for 2024. The lineup is still the same with Stench still handling bass/ guitar duties, Carrion on drums, and Blood Worm on vocals, so the stability has continued since the last record in two years. The sound is still primar...

09/12/2024

Klaïton is one of those sleeping beasts that has slowly been biding its time before exploding on the scene with a bit of a splash of their debut EP for 2024. Formed in 2013 from the Netherlands, this five piece brews a Death Metal sound that sounds like a less fuzzy Bloodbath meets Morbid Angel. There is a ton of groove brought from the dual guitar...

04/12/2024

The French band Infern debuts with this “Turn Of The Tide”, on the Dolorem Records label, a sample of old school death metal, but going further, with big influence of Bolt Thrower. Death metal and some touches of Obituary, Asphyx, Autopsy and other bands with heavy sounds from the 90s scene. A dense and dynamic death metal at the same time, with th...

02/12/2024

Earthburner has been waiting patiently for almost 23 years to surface; it just needed all the right parts to fully function. Formed back in 2001 from members of Death Metal act Broken Hope Mike Miczek on drums and Jeremy Wagner on guitars, the two wanted to delve into the more nastier side of Death Metal by incorporating Grindcore elements with thi...

25/11/2024

Recently formed in 2023, Italy’s Astral Fortress wasted no time to get their debut going, and 2024 gets it with “Spawn Of The Stars.” A rather unique take on a blend of Blackened Death Metal that is highly melodic in the vein of Dissection meets Limbonic Art, this four piece was careful to tread that line in the sand between the genres and the resu...

20/11/2024

Hot on the heels of their 2023 release, Ireland’s/ Poland’s Deadspeak tease yet some more new music with their EP, “No Respect… Neither For Living Nor For The Dead.” Those that know of this (now duo) that despite some lineup changes, still are going strong with that Death Metal style that has a Thrash tinge to it and sounds a bit like Death meets M...

18/11/2024

France’s Ad Vitam Infernal scorch ears once again with their second full length album, “Le Ballet Des Anges” just four years after their debut. Formed in 2017, this duo creates Death Metal rooted in the 90s era, though despite their rather early 90s approach in the vein of Deicide and Morbid Angel with their debut album which was rather concise, th...

13/11/2024

Italy’s The Blacktones have changed quite a bit over the years since their inception, each album seeming to get clearer and clearer since its start as an instrumental band back in 2011. While the core of this five piece is Sludge Metal, they’ve slowly been leaning towards other more accessible sounds, from Stoner Rock like Green Lung to almost Alte...

11/11/2024