Tag Cryptopsy
Let me be honest here, when I received the list of albums available for review from He Who Must Be Obeyed (Pete) I was drawn to Atrae Bilis by the label who put this out rather than any description of… Continue Reading →
Has it really been five years since Vltimas released ‘Something Wicked Marches in’? The debut really struck a chord with me and is one that I return to pretty regularly. It’s fair to say I wasn’t in isolation and the… Continue Reading →
My first experience of the whirlwind wizardry that is Cryptopsy came with their debut album ‘Blasphemy Made Flesh’ but what really blew my head off was the follow up album ‘None So Vile’. I’m pretty sure that any fans of… Continue Reading →
A debut mini-album from this brutal death metal act that comprises some current and ex-members of Guttural Secrete and Cerebral Incubation. Knowing that should give you an indication as to the bludgeoning sonic horror held within the five songs here… Continue Reading →
With a couple of albums and a few EPs already out this third album by US band Dischordia is likely to divide the technical death metal world, purely because the album is so off the wall that describing it with… Continue Reading →
Chaotic deathgrind with proggy leanings from Buenos Aires. OK this is a bit different. From the get go this is not the stereotypical South American lo fi blast fest that my cynical and foolhardy ears expected. It’s a jumble of influences and a cut… Continue Reading →
One look at the line up within this new Spanish technical death metal act and you see a wealth of experience honed to slaughterous surgical perfection within the bludgeoning realms of Arthropodal Humanicide, Ineffable Demise, Avgrunn and Fall Of Mankind… Continue Reading →
Ingested are one of those bands that I have heard of, and seen, but haven’t really paid a huge amount of attention to despite having been mostly impressed on occasions when they have popped up as a support act at… Continue Reading →
Bands can often times linger in the background and then suddenly explode. The danger of this of course is that the bar becomes very highly set thereafter and each release becomes an awaited and anticipated hype that often times won’t… Continue Reading →
I’ve always been a bit of a fan of parody in film, Austin Powers, Kung Pow, Dewey Cox all heavy hitters upon my list of top movies of all time. But we’re not here to discuss the silver screen, we’re… Continue Reading →
Seeing home grown talent is always pleasing, and by home grown in this case I mean country grown. There seems to be a good swelling of bands coming from the UK’s underground recently, most notably for me would be Raised… Continue Reading →
Supergroups are a funny thing, I always feel like they go either one of two ways. Either they are a positive collaboration of talented individuals or they are a somewhat manufactured ensemble thrust unwillingly upon the world. I think this… Continue Reading →