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Cave Dweller – Walter Goodman (or the empty cabin in the woods) (Aesthetic Death)

There are a few bands called Cave Dweller. As you may expect from the name, they are mainly dark sludgy heavy gloomy types. This however is a solo project by the quite brilliant and not heavy at all. Adam R Bryant of… Continue Reading →

Lik – Misanthropic Breed (Metal Blade)

You know you’ve made it as a band if you’ve signed to Metal Blade, let’s be honest about it. Lik (that’s Swedish for Corpse, language-fans) are an oldschool Swedish Death Metal band from…um…Sweden, and they made quite the splash when… Continue Reading →

Furnace – Dark Vistas (Soulseller Records)

Once again we see the Swedish death metal guru Rogga Johannson involved in yet another project, ably assisted by Peter Svensson (Assassin’s Blade) on bass/backing vocals and Lars Demoké (drums). This is on top of his collaboration with Paul Speckmann… Continue Reading →

Paradise in Flames – Devil’s Collection (Bloodblast)

This sounds to be an interesting proposition. Brazilian symphonic black metal band have been going since 2003 and are now releasing their third full album to go with a couple of early demos and a 2019 EP. From the onset… Continue Reading →

Benediction – Scriptures (Nuclear Blast)

I think that the UK Death Metal scene is oddly underrated, yeah sure we’ve got Napalm Death and Bolt Thrower but behind all that there is so much more. What about Gorerotted, Cancer, and Desecrator. More recently we’ve seen bands… Continue Reading →

Arroganz – Morsus (Supreme Chaos Records)

Since 2008 Arroganz have been churning out their own mix of blackened death metal. The German’s fifth LP, “Morsus” finds them in particularly dark form on an album with a sound that pretty much suits the weird times we find… Continue Reading →

Throane – Une Balle dans le Pied (Debemur Morti)

Une Balle dans le Pied literally means “a bullet in the foot”, so the equivalent of our “shooting yourself in the foot”. There’s no suggestion that Throane has done this with this EP, which promises black metal, doom, noise and… Continue Reading →

Inhumanity Vortex – Reverse Engineering (S/R)

The adage of not judging a book by its cover is well received by yours truly with this release from Polish act Inhumanity Vortex who were previously called Inhumanity. Under this moniker was released a handful of demos before suffixing… Continue Reading →

Kataklysm – Unconquered (Nuclear Blast)

It’s amazing to think that this is the 14th full length studio album from Kataklysm. It also appears to be Oli Beaudoin’s swansong after drumming for the band on the last 4 albums, and I must say that his northern… Continue Reading →

Bergeton – Miami Murder (MeusRecords / Darkhan Music)

One always wonders what bands do for entertainment on those endless tour bus journeys from one city to another and Morten Bergeton Iversen has no doubt clocked up many a mile. Who you ask? Well you probably know him better… Continue Reading →

Lamp Of Murmuur – Heir Of Eliptical Romanticism (Death Kvlt Productions)

Ok let’s start with the kvlt shall we? It seems some people just think everything must be a joke and the notion that people might be intensely serious about their music, and even the philosophy behind its creation, is beyond… Continue Reading →

Incinerate – Sacrilegivm (Comatose Music)

Back in 2009 I was still a fresh face to BDM and still had much to shock me. Now nothing surprises me now, miserable I know. However, it’s true, you kind of get to a point where brutality and shock… Continue Reading →

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