Dead Neon – Dead Neon
Like a toy that’s temporarily lost its fun factor — maybe a torched doll with plastic skin bunched at the bottom of its fire-mutated face, laying underneath the bed waiting for a facelift — this Dead...
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Rotting Corpse Records Holiday Giveaway
Up for grabs for three lucky readers are copies of the following filthy CDs from our friends at Rotting Corpse Records. Each of the three winners will receive a copy of : Invasion – Orchestrated Kill...
View ArticleDrug Honkey – Death Dub
Drug Honkey; that name is just so right on so many levels. Perhaps we shouldn’t even delve into the specifics of those levels and instead focus on Death Dub, a series of brain-warping hits from the...
View ArticleBeneath The Massacre – Marée Noire EP
Finally some new jams by Canadian technical death metal act Beneath The Massacre, in the form of an EP entitled Marée Noire. One would tend to think the well could have run dry with a lot of their...
View ArticleCalm Hatchery – Sacrilege of Humanity
Good Polish death metal (seems redundant, doesn’t it?) on a good Polish metal label. I needed this, as from what I can recall it’s been a while since I’ve had a filling meal from one of Poland’s head...
View ArticleThe Way of Purity – Crosscore
The Way Of Purity is a fairly young Christian metal band from Norway. Crosscore is the name of there debut album and it’s probably one of the weirdest bands I have covered as of late. They look like...
View ArticleAt Dusk/Idolater – Split
Listen, I get sent a lot of things in the mail from bands, labels and PR companies; stickers, CDs, shirts, candy and all that, but the main man behind Santa Cruz’s one man black metal act At Dusk,...
View ArticleAs They Sleep – Dynasty
Michigan Christian metal act As They Sleep are back with vengeance on their new album Dynasty. This is their first album on an actual label and with a take no prisoner’s attitude, As They Sleep has...
View ArticleInterview with NadimaČ
The only reason this interview is appearing is because vocalist Danilo “Dača” Trbojević hit me up on Facebook and kept following up until I finally listened to Drzavni Neprijatelj Brojkeci. I ended up...
View ArticleHacavitz – Metztli Obscura
This album starts off with “to meet again,” I never met them the first time. Here is obscure metal from Mexico, care of Moribund, with a nicely detailed album cover that screams bash and bellow war...
View ArticleAgalloch – Marrow of the Spirit
When Oregon’s Agalloch first appeared in 1999 with Pale Folklore and its haunting blend of folk and black metal, the metal community quickly drew comparisons to now-landmark releases like Ulver’s...
View ArticleMassive Slavery – Global Enslavement
Massive Slavery are a young and talented Canadian band with a lot going on – too much going on. Fusing melodic death metal with metalcore/deathcore, tech death and even a few hints of thrash, their...
View ArticleDawnbringer – Nucleus
While many have waved the flag for trad metal in recent years, one man has perhaps done a bit more than the rest: “Professor” Chris Black, owner/curator of Planet Metal Records, member of Superchrist,...
View ArticleContaigeon – Death at the Gates of Delirium
For me 2010 was where everything went far more digital and I’m not talking about just promotional CDs! Bands and labels started actually releasing their music digitally too: Shadow of the Colossus,...
View ArticleInterview with Contaigeon
This is UKDM the way it’s supposed to sound; dark, evil, and lethal. Morbid Angel is the most apt (though not the only) point of reference and Contaigeon applies the fundamentals in a way that is...
View ArticleHoly Grail – Crisis in Utopia
With White Wizzard’s Over the Top being one of my favorite records of the year, I couldn’t help but look forward to the debut release from Holy Grail, Crisis in Utopia. What you have here is a band...
View ArticleThe Great Fashion War of 2010
And it goes as follows: With record and download sales plummeting, the Dude side of the metal audience divide is becoming more obsessed with what it’s always obsessed about–being ‘authentic’ and...
View ArticleNegligence – Coordinates of Confusion
Normally when I go into a review listen on a band that’s new to me, I’m looking for something that I haven’t heard before. Sometimes, though, something very familiar that’s done very well can make an...
View ArticleDead, The – Ritual Executions
Originally self released back in 2009, the reissue of this Aussie trio’s second full-length CD comes to us thanks to the fine folks responsible for Diabolical Conquest ‘zine (so, whose up for Teeth of...
View ArticleFalkenbach – Tiurida
Recipe for Viking metal: A dash of black metal, heavy metal and a huge helping of folk with all the lore one can handle. Falkenbach are back with another album entitled Tiurida and to be honest it’s no...
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