A Testament July 5, 2016

Resilient
by Remote

Remote isa mathcore band from Paris beginning formally in 2010.Itfeaturesmembers of HKY and Quartier Rouge.They describes their music as a "chaotic, aggressive kind of post-hardcore with a hint of dark noise. It's inspired by negative feelings." The band has released a previous LP,Starving Blaze and...

Earworm Death Doom July 5, 2016

Zeta Reticuli
by Monolithe

French-based doom bandMonolithe have previously released four recordsforming ascience-fiction musical saga. Each album has seen a rise in the band's reach, culminating in their current part of Debemur Morti's roster. And the band seems to be just getting started. With the addition of new members, Mo...

Heathen Beast, Archaic Decapitator, Countess, and more July 5, 2016

Eleanora is a band you may already be aware of. The Belgian sludge crew's new album, Allure, has been getting some attention from the major metal outlets. Plodding, wave-likeguitar riffs are driven by energetic rhythms and incendiary vocals. Fire and water. These shrieks cut through steel like a blo...

From hell's heart I stab at thee! July 4, 2016

Paradise Gallows
by Inter Arma

Honestly, this is what I thought I would be hearing the first time I listened to Ahab: the sounds of the titular captainbellowing from the mast at the circling white beast below. That is exactly what Inter Arma sounds like: a fanatic chasing an uncatchable, lumbering beast. The band is from Richmond...

Only Child July 4, 2016

100 Years
by 100 Years

It is a crying shame that Sweden's 100 Years are not being given more attention this year. While on the one hand I can take pride in knowing that Metal Trenches is one of the few sites out there carrying the torch, on the other it's not doing the band as much good as getting that mainstream marketin...

Heaven and Hell July 1, 2016

Miserycorde
by Oracles

First of all,just check out thisline-up: Sven De Caluw (Aborted) - harsh vocals, Sanna Salou (ex-Dimlight) - clean vocals, Mendel Bij de Leij (Aborted, Mendel) - guitar, Steve Miller (ex-System Divide, Loculus) - guitar, Andrei Aframov (ex-System Divide) - bass, Ken Bedene (Aborted, ex-Abigail Willi...

Mini-Review Roundup: Athame, Carnal Decay, Eteritus, and more July 1, 2016

Athame has been recommended to fans of Craft, Gorgoroth, Aosoth. The band plays a particularly wretched bit of black metal with the occasional added blast of old school death and thrash. The growls are vicious and grim, the drums utterly destructive and chaotic. One need only listen to the first sin...

Helmet Meets Wolf King June 30, 2016

Seeing Hell
by Left Behind

Ever listened to Helmet and said, "hm...this is great, butcould it be heavier"? Well wonder no further. West Virginia's Left Behind are a metallic hardcore band that seem torepresentan alternative timeline branching from1990'sStrapit On. The band keeps the groove and some other stylistic hallmarks, ...

Swinging Pendulum of Post-Black June 29, 2016

Divination
by Vukari

The hometown strikes again. Chicago's Vukari have released their new album, Divination, and will be seeing a CD release on Bindrune August 1. This is dark and aggressive atmospheric black metal a la UADAand Regarde Les Hommes Tomber. The quartet has already released two other albums since 2013, but ...

Russian Mathcore June 29, 2016

The Deathsongs
by For You.Earth

The Russian Federationsends a lot of great music our way, but I was not expecting this. How often do you get a Dillinger Escape Plan equivalent from the region? This is mathcore at its finest. For You.Earth has put out a few splits and this 2012 LP, The Deathsongs. I only pray they have more in the ...

Alaskan: The Final Interview June 28, 2016

End
by Alaskan

Alaskan is an Ottawa sludge group I have been following since the inception of this site. It saddened me greatly to recieve the email of their latest EP's release, asEndliterally signals the end of the band. Having released several fine albums that I constantly found myself comparing other groups ag...

2016 Part One: Enjoyability June 28, 2016

The opening three tracks, beginning with "Collapse" are some of the angriest and heaviest peices of music I have heard from the group to date. Technical, djenty riffs rip through the speakers with a sense of immediacy and violence. The only thing perhaps more righteous in their fury are the vocals; ...

2016 Part One: Innovation June 28, 2016

Mock me if you must for choosing something that isn't exactly the most "extreme," but I think Eths' Ankaa is the only album I have heard this year that doesn't sound remotely like anything else. Rachel brings a certain folk-like, regional quality to the music at that is quite unlike any other vocali...

2016 Part One: Musicianship June 28, 2016

Could it really be anything else? Wormed is ascifi-themed brutal tech/death/grind band from Madrid, Spain. If you can decipher a single word from Phlegeton's performance (aside from the brief spoken word additions), you clearly have more metal ears than I. It is a cacophony of early Cannibal Corpse ...

More Mutants!!! June 27, 2016

Overkill Commando
by Nuclear Holocaust

Did ya'll forget about Nuclear Holocaust? We covered their previous album, and by coincidence happened to highlight them once more just as they were beginning to unveil this new work, Overkill Commando. It would be easy to castaside an ugly little band like this as a passing bit of grindy, death/cru...

I Put A Spell On You June 24, 2016

Mystical Future
by Wildernessking

South Africa. We don't give them enough love around here. Great metal music continues to flow like wine into our viking-like goblet from all corners of theglobe. Another I say! Today that wine comes in the form of Wlidernessking of Cape Town. The band has been around since 2011, slowly morphing into...

At A Loss For Words... June 24, 2016

Mark of the Blade
by Whitechapel

"I honestly don't think that we ever have to prove anything to anyone, we do this because we enjoy it, and if people want to listen and support us, that's just a bonus," says Bozeman. "With this record we knew what we didn't want to do. We wanted to get away from the faster stuff, because we're bu...

Putrid and Pious June 23, 2016

Harrowing Faith
by Shed the Skin

Shed the Skin is an old school death metal band from Hells Headbanger's ever-growing roster of the ugly and obscene. The group is based out of Cleveland with a roster that includes members of other known metal bands like Incantation, Ringworm, Vladimirs, Faithxtractor, and Vindicator. Their second r...

Some Roads You Shouldn't Go Down June 22, 2016

Here Be Dragons
by CB Murdoc

CB Murdoc was formed in 2006from the disbanded black metal bandMrk Gryning. Changing style drastically to that of a progressive and technical death metal monster, the band is reportedly an outlet for the long winter months of Scandinavia. Cabin fever in musical form. If this is what it sounds like i...

Mini-Review Roundup: Lament Cityscape, ROSK, Siegelord, Suzaku Avenue June 22, 2016

From Oakland, California comes sludge metal band, Lament Cityscape. I actually let this one pass me by in2015, but like I always say; if you haven't heard it yet, it still counts as new. The bandcreates an expansive sound that provides a great sense of space and dystopian aesthetic. It's moody,dark,...
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