Tag Tech-Death
Some of the inspiration behind this album came about as a result of a serious scooter accident to a band member, which caused her to look at the fragility of life, and contrasting emotions from depression to gratitude. Not to… Continue Reading →
A friend told me they thought that Fallujah had gone off the boil after “Dreamless” (2016). Well, I obviously didn’t think myself that after describing “Undying Light” (2019) as a “breathtaking experience of progressive heaviness”. What I hoped for here… Continue Reading →
Tempted to say that Forgotten World is an apt title here as this album is actually from 2007 and was remastered last year and the band is defunct. Now the question this always brings to my mind is…why re-release it?… Continue Reading →
Hammerheart have done a great job re-issuing the early back catalogue of Danish technical Thrash metal band Invocator. The band’s debut Excursion Demise was originally released in 1991. I always found this release to be at the tipping point of… 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 →
It’s good to see Czech band Godless Truth back like an old friend. Some years ago I saw them play somewhere in North London, possibly supporting Vomit Remnants at that pub at Archway, and liked their brutal style so much… Continue Reading →
My love for Tech Death has certainly dwindled in the last year or so, I still love the genre but I don’t care about it like I once did. I’m basically far more critical of the genre now. However, this… Continue Reading →
This shall be the sixth album by the German quartet and first on Nuclear Blast. Formed 20 years ago by vocalist and guitarist Steffen Kummerer, the band has always pushed the envelope of technical death metal with progressive tendencies. Returning… Continue Reading →
When you’re into anything for too long you begin to get very grumpy. What would’ve amazed you a couple years ago swiftly fades into the realms of the generic. This has very much been the case for me and Tech… Continue Reading →
This album is a “thematic quest for transcendence” is about the “consequence of being”, so plenty to get our teeth into there. Reaping Asmodeia isn’t a band I knew about previously but I have established that they have been in… Continue Reading →
The UK Death Metal scene has always been there, I mean we have Napalm Death and Carcass for starters, but in more recent years things have been amping up. Celestial Sanctuary, Party Cannon, Vision Of Disfigurement, Colpocleisis, Crepitation and so… Continue Reading →
While this Norwegian trio may have been around for over 20 years, this is only their third album, with it being 9 years since their last offering. But they are definitely going the ‘quality over quantity’ route and I must… Continue Reading →