Profeci are a black metal four piece from Poland. "Matecznik" is their debut full length release. The band play a melodic, atmospheric slow paced style of black metal with sung and spoken word vocals, thing in the vein of later Celtic Frost or Schammasch when they stop fucking about and get on with it. It conjure up that woodland, open space wil...

26/09/2020

Portuguese blackened death metallers Summon are back with their third release “Helios” a three track EP on Godz Ov War productions following up their debut full length 2018’s “Parav Il Zilittv” on Iron Bonehead records. All three tracks are simply called “Helios I – III” so this make for one big piece to listen to in one sitting. Part one bring...

25/09/2020

“Empire Of The Worm” is the second album from Polish death metallers Conquest Icon. What started off as a studio project has now become a full 5 piece band and this is the first release with new vocalist Ronve formally of Purifier and Ebola. How do I describe Conquest Icon? Right, think of Incantation or Immolation not song structure wise but th...

24/09/2020

After a really interesting <a href="https://brutalism.com/review/rotting-kingdom-rotting-kingdom/">debut EP</a> released in 2017 US doom death metallers Rotting Kingdom release their debut full length album “A Deeper Shade Of Sorrow” a melancholy laden album that is brutal when it needs to be but has many different shades of the musical spectrum on...

23/09/2020

“Antichrist Above” is the second full length album (among a hefty pile of Splits and EP’s) from blackened thrash three piece Putrid. It’s a dark abrasive album that show some genuine song craftsmanship in a sub-genre that all too often can fall into noise for brutality’s sake. Taking the chaos of Angelcorpse and the more sophisticated parts of Morb...

01/09/2020

Originally released in 2019 as a demo “Crawling Through Cadavers” by Necrochaos, a one man project has been given a proper release by Godz Ov War Productions with two additional track. Necrochaos play death metal in that slow swampy way that Incantation and the like do. Typically the songs swing between a slow dirge and building to a fast grindi...

26/08/2020

French death metal kings are back with their seventh full length “The Mother Of All Plagues”. Having been on a winning streak since their reboot back in 2011 the band are losing none of their venom, aggression and momentum and have delivered their most direct relentless album yet. 'Rival Of The Nazarene' attacks with an assault of riffage and pu...

21/08/2020

UK thrash legends Onslaught are back with their 7 full length album after a 7 year gap. Of course it’s not like the band haven’t been busy. Releasing a live album in 2016 and a lengthy world tour celebrating the 30th anniversary of “The Force”. The band are back this time around with 3 new members! Newly initiated are guitarist Wayne Doorman, drumm...

10/08/2020

Sinister have always been a reliable band, while others bands release a classic or masterpiece or 2 then fall from grace or spend the rest of their career chasing a long gone peak. A band like Sinister will consistently release 8/10 records. After 14 albums and 30 years it begs the question which would you prefer? “Deformation Of The Holy Realm”...

04/08/2020

After a string of EP’s and demos in the 80’s and some compilations in recent years and building a cult following Vancouver shredders Witches Hammer have reactivated to release their first proper album “Damnation Is My Salvation”. Most notably drumming up interest for the band is main axeman Marco Banco who was once a member of Canadian black/dea...

10/07/2020

Every so often an album comes along and sucker punch’s you out of nowhere and perfectly scratches a particular itch. Like a cold pint on a hot day or something simple cooked to perfection hits the right spot. Well Werewolves has done exactly that with this beast of an album. I’ll let the hype sticker on the album speak for itself “Werewolves are...

07/07/2020

“Cavern Of Perdition” is the third full length from German death metallers Reckless Manslaughter. I hate to use the term old school. What Reckless Manslaughter play is death metal in its classic and traditional form and it is obvious that the band know the genre inside out and like a fine chef stick to the recipes of old. “Cavern Of Perdition” i...

10/02/2020