Reviews written by: Michael
Reviews
Castrated - Surgical Vicissitude
<p>Castrated consists of Anthony Voight on vocals, Jonathan Bayliss on guitars, Carlos Gallegos on bass, and Matt Behner on drums. That’s it, just 4 members. A super simplistic approach to something so aurally devastating. Well, sometimes that’s all it takes. The single guitarist approach really works here. The tone is so sharp and eviscerating on...
10/02/2025
Corpsefucking Art - Tomatized
<p>If you have followed this band back a few years, especially all the way back to their split CD with the band Goretrade, you will find that Corpsefucking Art is a band who’s symphonic array of aural decimation is not to be underestimated or taken lightly. These guys have grown since those days, and their release “Tomatized” explores and defines t...
27/01/2025
Anthropophagus Depravity - Demonic Paradise
<p>"Demonic Paradise” is a hard-hitting dose of brutal death metal that is all-obliterating with punishing music and the ever-present anti-religious overtones. This is a release that is firing on all cylinders and doesn’t let up from beginning to end. There is a lot to be heard here. The range of vibes and influences is vast and is sure to keep the...
09/09/2024
Between The Killings - The Killing Quartet Vol. 2: Omnipotence
<p>Between The Killings are grasping the metal scene by the throat with their new EP titled “Omnipotence”. With a total of 5 songs of relentless brutally thrashing death metal, you are sure to havr your most severe cravings of metallic lust satisfied tenfold. This EP is reminiscent of bands like Deeds of Flesh, Retch, Internal bleeding, Dying Fetus...
02/09/2024
Necroticgorebeast - Repugnant
<p>Necroticgorebeast’s “Repugnant” is a further journey into their collective minds of madness and is sure to appeal to even the most sophisticated fans of the brutal death metal genre. You will find that, in the music, there are various elements and vibes of old school and traditional death metal, combined with a more than capable technical applic...
19/08/2024
Brutalism - Solace In Absurdity
<p><br><br>-- Notification --<br><br><b><font color="#ff9c00">Before we start with the review it must be said that the band has no connection to this site in any kind of way!</font></b><br><br>Brutalism’s “Solace In Absurdity” brings together all the elements needed to create one hell of a nasty sounding soundtrack to the atrocities of life. Right...
26/06/2024
Perveration - Putrefaction Of Infinite Apogee
<p>Trudging and marching through the sludgy murkiness that brutal death metal can sometimes become is the band Perveration with their album entitled “Putrefaction Of Infinite Apogee”. Right from the start this is one mean intense mess of an album, and that’s not a bad thing either. At times things will get extremely slow, like trying to walk throug...
19/06/2024
Creme Flesh - Casablumpkin
<p>Creme Flesh’s “Casablumpkin” is a release that sees a merging of genres in an almost seamless fashion. First, we have the cover art which shows a man sitting in a toilet stall with what one might guess is a woman on her knees performing an act on the man. Not really the type of album cover you would find on a brutal death metal album. Stereotypi...
16/04/2024
Cercenatory - Goresphere
<p>Cercenatory’s “Goresphere” is a little slab of gore grinding brutal death metal that “cannibalizes” elements and vibes from other genres thus creating a rather intoxicating dose of insane madness/ The band have developed their own take on this art which is often duplicated and stagnant. Having said that, there is nothing stagnant here. Razor bla...
12/03/2024
Tortured - Genetically Engineered Monstrosity
<p>Tortured’s “Genetically Engineered Monstrosity” sets forth to pave a path of glorious destruction for all who invite the temptation of this sonic annihilation. This may not be all that old school sounding but will take you back to those days when brutal death metal was fresh and new. There are the constant death metal vibes that collide with the...
10/01/2024
Imperial Execration - Commanding Satan’s Crusades
<p>For about 22 minutes, Imperial Execrations “Commanding Satan’s Crusades” annihilates everything in its path and shows you a true force of hell in the brutal death metal genre. Everything is standard here, and not variation from the norm of what is expected in this form of extreme metal. There seems to be a very high Internal Bleeding/Cryptopsy h...
02/01/2024
Stabbing - Extirpated Mortal Process
<p>Stabbing’s “Extirpated Mortal Process” is an album so aurally dark in presentation, you can just feel the brutal death metal misery oozing from the speakers. These 12 tracks are so insanely heavy, it’s almost as if the band took doom/death elements and incorporated them into their own blueprint of metal insanity. This works extremely well especi...
21/08/2023