Mini-Review Roundup: Animate The End, Gourd, Brunndl, Oddhums Oct. 13, 2016

Next we've got Gourd is a two-piece band from Ireland. They play a disturbing mixture of doom, noise, and drone that's easy to get caught up in. From the echoing, claustrophobic recording space of the drums to the strange layering of electronic soundscapes, it's a Pink Floydish journey down the rive...

Blackened Oct. 12, 2016

Interitus
by Escarnium

Blackened death band Escarnium has joined the ranks of Redefining Darkenss to release their new album. The band has seen the release of a few splits, EP's, and full length, but this year's Interitus threatens to blow them all out of the water. Thegroup began in Salvador, Brazil back in 2007. With in...

A Curse Oct. 11, 2016

Rotten. Dead. Forgotten.
by Tortorum

Norwegian black metal. For fans of the genre, those three words should tell you all you need to know about the album you are about to hear. But for those wishing for more, I will press on. It has been two years since the Tortorum's last album, Katabasis, and during that time the trio has seen a slig...

Definitely Not At Worship Oct. 10, 2016

The Embodiment of Hate
by Our Place Of Worship Is Silence

Welcome California technical, avant-garde death metal project Our Place of Worship is Silence. The Embodiment of Hate,out this Friday, is their debut full lengththrough Broken Limbs. Says guitarist and vocalist Eric Netto, "The Embodiment of Hate is the necessary proclamation of our unrivaled feroci...

Worth The Wait Oct. 7, 2016

Life, Sex And Death
by Cult of Fire

I hadbeen waiting for this day for over a year now.Despite knowing we would only be getting 4 new tracks, my wonderment over मृत्यु का तापसी अनुध्यान and Infernal Vlad's work on the Death Karma project leftme little choice but to obsess over the promise of Life, Sex and Death. I have been checking b...

Respect The Groove Oct. 7, 2016

The Violent Sleep Of Reason
by Meshuggah

Got only time for one track to decide whether the latest from Sweden's polyrhythmic masters, Meshuggah, still have something to offer with their latest album? How about "MonstroCity." Guaranteed good time. With The Violent Sleep Of Reason, continue to perservere, armed with the sound they invented. ...

Mini-Review Roundup: Ur Draugr/Haar, Abnabak, Ortega, and more Oct. 7, 2016

Scotland's avant-garde BM band Haar and Australia's masters of extreme progressive, Ur Draugr, have banded together via ATMF to bring us a new split. I'll be honest and say that I have never been much for Haar, but I will give them credit for one thing: when it comes to black metal's mission to leav...

30 Years In The Making Oct. 6, 2016

Pathetic Divinity
by Mercyless

Mercyless,is a highly respected death metal bandfrom France. They havereleased twocritically acclaimedalbums: Abject Offeringsin 1992and Coloured Funeralin 1993.They have toured across Europe with the likes of Death, Asphyx, and Unleashed as well as shows with Cannibal Corpse, Obituary, and Incantat...

Horror Has A Face... Oct. 6, 2016

The Abyssal Plane of Suffering
by Dreaded Void

From Sydney, Australia, this is Dreaded Void. There is somethingmagical that happens when somebody does lo-fi black metal right. So many people try their hand at it, but very few have that special something that makes it work. Anyone can pick up a guitar, tremolo-pick a simple progression, and howl ...

Invoking The Imagination Oct. 5, 2016

Aural Kaleidoscopes​
by Invoking The Abstract

Unique Leaderis proud to release the debut full length album from South Carolina's Invoking The Abstract. The instrumental progessive tech-metallersformed in 2010 and released an EP in 2012. Aural Kaleidoscopes was recorded at The Basement Recording Studios with Jamie King (Between The Buried And Me...

Finnish LOG Oct. 4, 2016

The Era of Precarity
by Re-Armed

Finnishmetal bandRE-ARMED have released The Era of Precaritythrough Saarni Records. The band has pledged to donate 50 cents from the sale of every copy to Karma Ry, which supports elder people and young adults in the band's hometown area. Says the band, "The Era of Precarity is fully conceptual albu...

Subjugate Me Oct. 3, 2016

Wither
by Decomposed

Sweden's Decomposedbegan in 2010 as a one man death metal project. Within a year, a demo had emergedfollowed bythe self-titled LP the following year.Thesolo act grew into a full band with further releases and live performances, but internal struggles led to all members besides composer/founder Jespe...

Morbid Fascination Sept. 30, 2016

D6s6nti6rro
by Cryfemal

Frontman,Ebola, has been playing what he calls "Necro Mental" under the black metal moniker Cryfemal since 1996. The Tenerife group had been defunct for a time, but last year it wasresurrectedto recordits seventh album, D6s6nti6rr. Now, with the help of the esteemed label, Osmose Productions, Cryfem...

Mini-Review Roundup: Burial Hordes, Mammoth Weed Wizard Bastard, Valborg, and more Sept. 30, 2016

Dank, dark death metal from Greece. The region has always had an ageless evil to their black and death metal sound, and Burial Hordes is no different. At first glance, the art and opening track may lead you to believe that the collective is just another old school DM band with a blackened edge, but ...

Totally SiKth (reissue) Sept. 29, 2016

Death of a Dead Day
by SiKth

Let's try a little exercise. I'm going to read your mind. Do your best to clear your thoughts; close your eyes, take a deep breath, all that shit. Now read this word: MATHCORE. You were thinking of Dillinger Escape Plan, weren't you? Obviously, this isn't magic. As far as the genre goes, DEP are hea...

Brutal Gothenburg Sept. 28, 2016

Satanic Corpse
by Brutally Deceased

More HM-2 peda-driven death metal for you. I know, I know. Everyone is using it now...but not everyone is using it well. The Czech Republic's Brutally Deceased, however, have done their homework. Theirlatestalbum, Satanic Corpse, through Doomentia Records runs perfectly alongside the Swedish death m...

Bizzaro Progressive Blackened Death Sept. 27, 2016

The Obscene Rite
by Veilburner

This is avant-garde death metal bandVeilburner from Pennsylvania. The Obscene Rite, their latest album, is the finalchapter ina conceptual trilogy begun with The Three Lightbearers. "The ongoing lyrical theme of the trilogy has been transhumanism, the belief or theory that the human race can evolve ...

The Cake Is A Lie Sept. 26, 2016

Proponent for Sentience
by Allegaeon

Allegaeon is a progressive death metal band from Fort Collins, Colorado. They have released several albums, all dealing largely with scientific concepts. On the topic of this new release, the band states, "This story is dotted with examples of real-life scientific advancements, and it is also perfor...

Epic Rebirth Sept. 26, 2016

Winter's Gate
by Insomnium

I am not an Insomnium fan. At least not until I heard this. All previous outings have, sacrilege or no, left me bored and ready to take a nap. I thought that 2014s Shadows of a Dying Sun would change things, as While We Sleep was one of my favorite songs of the year. But listening to the album as a ...

Vinyl Reissue Sept. 23, 2016

Viklingligr Veldi
by Enslaved

This review was originally part of a larger discography review, but in honor of Enslaved's move to pull this album from the vault, so too shall this be dusted off and made new. Their classic debut full length, Viklingligr Veldi, is being reissued today for the first time ever on vinyl via By Norse...
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