Tag 20 Buck Spin
If you are not familiar with Brooklyn NYC’s Gravesend then click here for my review of their debut album. It is killer (the album not the review – although it is quite witty and well thought out but I digress). All… Continue Reading →
There probably couldn’t have been a more appropriate album to review for Ave Noctum than this which is my 666th album review for the site. This is the second time I’ve reviewed a Ruin Lust album with the first being… Continue Reading →
Bands with names like this I always check to see if there any other acts with the same name and was surprised to find out that there aren’t which is highly unusual given that most words and terms surrounding torture… Continue Reading →
In the intervening six years between this US band’s debut, ‘Abhorrent Manifestation’ and this sophomore the band has released two splits, a demo, a live album and a box set, meaning the band has been busy despite the half decade… Continue Reading →
It’s a bold choice, to say the least, to give your debut album a name that could so easily be read as “Shambolic Vibrations”, whether that misreading be by accident or design. Other brave choices include the blurb in the… Continue Reading →
As the world spins on a precipice and the Doomsday Clock sits at 90 seconds to Midnight, “a time of unprecedented danger” LA based quintet Kommand have holed up in their underground bunker working on the follow up 2020 Maggot… Continue Reading →
It seems a bit daft stating that you can sometimes actually hear nostalgia but anyone who cut teeth on the emerging melodic death metal scene of Sweden in the mid 90’s will definitely do so on giving Majesties debut album… Continue Reading →
The sister album to “Helionomicon”, which is being released at the same time, this one promises a hybrid of technical death and black metal. Sure enough what we have is a whirlwind of furious, technically-oriented shapes. Roaring, echoing vocals supplement… Continue Reading →
Canadian doom duo Tribunal hail from Vancouver and consist of the two talented multi-instrumentalists Soren Mourne and Etienne Flinn. Both Mourne and Flinn handle vocal duties, blending melancholic and haunting cleans with blackened rasps and deathly inspired screams whilst a… Continue Reading →
Justin DeTore (Vestal Claret, Solemn Lament) and Derrick Vella, (Tomb Mold, Outer Heaven) known collectively as Dream Unending, have released their sophomoric album ‘Song of Salvation’ which has just been released on all formats by US label 20 Buck Spin…. Continue Reading →
This quartet out of Philly have taken a considerable amount of time perfecting their craft as this, their debut full-length comes a full five years after the ‘Pulsing Dark Absorptions’ of its previous EP. With no less than three members… Continue Reading →
I have certainly had a glut of top quality old school death metal to review recently plus some I’ve listened to on top as US grim filled death dealers Acephalix unleash their fourth grisly offering five years after they released… Continue Reading →