Tag Death Metal
As death metal goes, this is about as brutal and uncompromising as it gets. “Iconoclasm” is the second album from this Swedish band and comes, to quote the lead singer, “with a nosebleed guarantee”. Yet in spite of the all-conquering… Continue Reading →
There seem to be so many different types of death metal around these days it is hard to keep track; technical brutal death metal, brutal technical death metal, brutal tech-death etc. It sometimes makes my head swim. So when a… Continue Reading →
Ulcer is a Polish sextet featuring members who have seen action in numerous bands from the depths of that country’s extreme metal scene. With stylish cover art and an improved logo on this, their second album, you could be forgiven… Continue Reading →
Although Skineater is undoubtedly going to be a new name to most, the band consists of characters who have been around the Swedish death metal scene for a long time. From founder Håkan Stuvemark (ex-Wombbath, In Thy Dreams) to new… Continue Reading →
Comprised of ex members of misanthropic black metallers Svarttjern, death metallers Bloodspawn and power metallers Frail Grounds, the mixing pot here is a strange one, but the result of this conglomeration of styles sticks resolutely within the realm of death… Continue Reading →
I have to admit that Deceased had already been around for 12 years before I heard them properly on the release of their third 1997 album Fearless Undead Machines,’ the tape copy of which is now well played. I probably… Continue Reading →
I can give a hefty list of French death metal bands that would clean annihilate most of their planet wide counterparts for sheer brutality and uncompromising ferocity. One look at the gore typeface used on the album’s title and on… Continue Reading →
Having just reviewed Nominon’s new album The Cleansing, I wasn’t exactly looking forward to the task of ripping on another album of ‘worship material’. Whilst extremely proficient in its capability to summon the ancient Swedish gods, the release had ultimately… Continue Reading →
Oh dear. Not this again! Music that genuinely tickles… no, ravages… my fancy, but is ‘oh so very cumbersome’ to put into words without plummeting into a cesspit of extreme-metal-reviewers’ clichés and ostensibly lazy references. Let us begin by rehashing… Continue Reading →
Death metal is best played straight down the line and things do not get more straightforward than Turkey’s Engulfed. A band of no mean experience and formed by members of Decaying Purity and Burial Invocation, this is their first EP (25 minutes) and its as crushing a… Continue Reading →
The latest release in Metal Blade’s 30th anniversary catalogue is the fourth album from Swedish death metallers, Aeon. I recall picking up their second record, ‘Rise to Dominate’, when it came out and quite enjoying their brand of Satanic death…. Continue Reading →
Forget the latest trends, forget superhuman, athletic instrumentation, forget technicality and sophistication; if the world does end on the 21st December as some people claim the Mayans predicted, I want to be listening to something like Abysme. The band themselves… Continue Reading →