‘Christian metal’ is a bit of an oxymoron, specifically when the term metal is usually associated when referring to anti-Christian themes and ideals. Bands anywhere from Deicide to Immolation have thrown down the gauntlet and dragged Christian ideals through the mud, so it is very surprising and daring when a band- let alone a death metal/ deathcor...

12/10/2022

Baalzagoth’s debut full length “Morbid Persecutions” is 40 minutes of modern churning death metal. These five Polish monikers take cues from the likes of groups such as Behemoth and Belphegor to create mid paced, crushing blackened death metal. The album is like a slow march till death with ferocious vocals, chugging riffs, thunderous drumming, and...

11/10/2022

Slaughterday is a German duo, Jens Fingers – guitars and bass, and Bernd Reiners – vocals and drums, since 2010, from Leer, Lower Saxony, who present us their fourth album "Tyrants Of Doom" through the label F.D.A. Records, coming out on September 23.The style of this band is death metal without more, with all the nuances of this genre, dark parts,...

10/10/2022

Revolting is one of the million bands of the ever prolific Swedish death metal monster Rogga Johansson. The band was created in 2008 and released its debut album "Dreadful Pleasures" in 2009 via Razorback records. In 2022, the Dutch label Doc Records re-release this record on vinyl. The vinyl contains original artwork and lyric insert. If you...

05/10/2022

Italy’s Cerebral Extinction is back with their third full length album “Escape From Illusion.” Still apocalyptic, still chaotic, and all brutal death metal, these guys are a great mix of a more technical version of Immolation meets Deicide that just steamrolls track after track with some surprises in between. The opening introduction sets the atmos...

04/10/2022

This review belongs to an American death/thrash metal band called Deocculted which is active since 2018. This EP has 5 tracks and it's the remix of their 2019 album. I've not listen to their first version. Anyway, let's check it out.'Spectraphobia', the first track of the album has good complicated riffs and drums sentences. Vocal is good enough an...

03/10/2022

Funeral doom is always a hard genre to swallow, and just because it is massive in sound and length. It takes a lot of keep listeners interested in ten plus minutes of work while maintaining a dark and gloomy atmosphere that pretty much makes one feel trapped in a morose state of mind. Some groups like Disembowelment just used distortion and slow ch...

29/09/2022

Well, well, a nugget to review! At least that is what I said to myself on the first listen. Let us move on to the neighbouring country and take a tour of Belgium to see how the country is evolving in terms of metal music. It has long been considered the poor relation or the belated little brother of its big French neighbour. And there is a good fin...

28/09/2022

It is 2022 and five years since this disgusting pile of pus called Phalloplasty released a full length. Four years if we take into consideration their split with Slamophiliac of 2018. Mr Zack Shaw doesn’t seem to have the intention of leaving our poor eardrums at ease. And why should he do that? Inspiration seems to be streaming endlessly through h...

27/09/2022

Nerds and metal fans rejoice because this right here is the perfect blend of brutal music set to just the right themes that those of us who grew up in the 80s are sure to love. Formed in 2018, Proceed On Your Way To Oblivion is a sort of supergroup from the U.S. cranking out tech death similar to that of Aborted and Origin. The songs hit hard, fast...

26/09/2022

Oh my god what a record! "The Relegation" is the first official full length for Martyred, a death metal band from Austin, Texas. Active from 2003 to 2010 and returned to the track in 2017, Martyred succeeded in releasing their first official work relying on the Italian TTK Records. The relegation presents itself from the artwork with a great force...

21/09/2022

After almost 8 years of silence, Poland’s Bottlekopf is back with more groove laden sludge tinged death metal. A more well rounded 2nd effort, there is much more to consume on “The Jokes Are Over” compared to their debut back in 2014. While the album holds a very basic formula with plenty of chugging riffs, throaty vocals, percussive tapping, and p...

20/09/2022

U.K.’s Tyrannos storm forward with their debut EP, “Spears Of The Aten” which is a short collection of progressive death metal. While not as ‘Opeth’ progressive or ‘A Forest of Stars’ progressive, Tyrannos does have a few moments that do impress on the album. The opening ‘Beneath The Pharonic Necropolis’ has a bit of a bombastic sound, being v...

19/09/2022

It took ten long years but fans finally have it: Sweden’s Miseration’s fourth full length album. The group is pretty much headed by Solution .45 members Christian Alvestam on vocals and Jani Stefanovic who does everything else plus vocals. Basically for a time this project was the ‘heavy answer’ to Scary Symmetry and Solution .45, both melo death p...

15/09/2022

Imperium is a four piece technical death metal band from the U.K. and “Ex Mortis Gloria” is their third full length album. These days when one thinks technical death metal everyone expects insane speed (like Archspire) or crazy bass breakdowns and jazzy sections (Necrophagist). Imperium do deliver the speed but not at breakneck velocity and while t...

14/09/2022