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Primal Code – Opaque Fixation (Relapse Records)

Since forming in 2021 this US death metal act has released a demo, split and EP in quick succession as this marks the band’s first, and hopefully not the last, full length. You rarely get to hear a straight up… Continue Reading →

Massacre – Necrolution (Agonia Records)

This is classic US death metal, a new release consisting of Kam Lee, vocalist and basic innovator of death metal vocals, in fact the same stable line up since 2021’s ‘Resurgeance’ release. Those who following the Swedish death metal scene… Continue Reading →

New Skeletal Faces – Until The Night (Peaceville)

What do we have here? A death rock trio, named New Skeletal Faces, that sprung form fertile Californian soil, and that is being released on Peaceville Records, promising to fuse “the seductive and spellbinding gothic prowess of bands such as… Continue Reading →

Fit For An Autopsy – The Nothing That Is (Nuclear Blast)

Coming from New Jersey Fit For An Autopsy have been going since 2008 with their debut album The Process Of Human Extermination gaining them some traction in the Deathcore scene in 2011. Since then they’ve dropped a whole host of… Continue Reading →

Nachtmystium – Blight Privilege (Prophecy)

To say the announcement on the signing of Nachtmystium was met with howls of vitriol and derision by a significant amount of people is no overstatement. Perhaps the somewhat cynical and attention seeking way Prophecy Productions made it along with… Continue Reading →

One With The Riverbed – Succumb (Dusktone)

Post-metal – like it or loathe it the genre is here to stay, and I for one am very pleased it exists, for it is essential to the evolution of metal as is needed in any other genre. Plus, it… Continue Reading →

The Gates of Slumber – The Gates of Slumber (Svart Records)

So, I did not have a new The Gates of Slumber record on my year’s bingo card. A mere 13 years after their last studio album, the be-doomed ones have returned. I must confess to being really excited to hear… Continue Reading →

Black Curse – Burning In Celestial Poison (Sepulchral Voice)

Black Curse, a Denver based Blackened Death Metal act featuring members from Primitive Man, Khemmis, Spectral Voice, Spirit Possession and more. It’s pretty clear these guys have some top tier Extreme Metal credibility. Their 2020 debut Endless Wound proved this… Continue Reading →

Mother Of Graves – The Periapt of Absence (Profound Lore)

Respecting those no-longer with us on their second album and follow up to ‘Where The Shadows Adorn’ it is off to eerie Indiana where the quintet Mother Of Graves Dwell. Melodic doom death is what we encounter with eight hymns… Continue Reading →

Escuela Grind – Dreams On Algorithms (MNRK)

Upstate New York’s Escuela Grind are one of those acts that seems to keep the metal gossip columns of the interweb in business. Not a week goes by that some “outrage” featuring EG doesn’t float up via the usual suspects… Continue Reading →

Immortal Bird – Sin Querencia (20 Buck Spin)

Hailing from Chicago, Illinois Immortal Bird have spent the past 11 years combining black metal, crust punk and some sludgy genres to create a somewhat unique blend of metal and adjacent sounds to express their outspoken shtick. Having discovered them… Continue Reading →

Undeath – More Insane (Prosthetic)

Formed in 2018 and from Rochester New York Undeath have certainly made a name for themselves in the Death Metal scene. I’ve always seen them in the same league as the likes of Gatecreeper, 200 Stab Wounds and Frozen Soul… Continue Reading →

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