Death metal traditionalists Baest may be from the land of the little bricks of intense foot pain, but there is no shying away from the classic Swedish sound. Inspired by legendary bands such as Emtombed, Dismember and Morbid Angel, their new album Necro Sapiens aims to slay it’s way forth […]
The band that seems to have a never ending list of albums, Six Feet Under release music video for The Rotting off their latest album Nightmares of the Decomposed. If you want the short take, make sure the kids are out the room before pressing play! Nightmares of the Decomposed […]
Plagueborne deliver their debut album A Blueprint for Annihilation. Slamming death metal with flying laser sharks? Sounds like a recipe for some disgusting down tuned filth. Released out of Rising Nemesis Records, German slammers Plagueborne – who started life as Five Dollar Crackbitch before disbanding, give us 43 minutes of […]
The purveyors of massive guitar tone. The mighty Gojira have very few rivals when it comes to chest pounding bass that can comfortably knock you off the road if you are crazy enough to listen to them through your car stereo. Ranking all Gojira albums is a tough task, but […]
Thrashened death metal, deathened thrash metal, thrashy death metal? I’m not sure the best way to describe Brazil’s Nervosa. But new album Perpetual Chaos does indeed contain the aforementioned death and thrash metal concoction. The result? An old school triumph. It’s odd to talk about a Brazilian metal band that […]
The sophomore slump. When a second offering is vastly inferior to a high quality initial offering. The Jaws 2 syndrome. Or RGIII. There aren’t many things in the world more disappointing then a terrible follow up effort. You know it very well in the music world. When an artist breaks […]
So here we come to the first review of 2021. In a particularly sharp cold spell here in the UK it is fitting that we start with an album called Crypt Of Ice. 2021 was supposed to be the start of a resurgence after the – to put it mildly […]
At the forefront of Viking themed melodic death metal, Sweden’s windmill masters Amon Amarth have transitioned their sound through their career. Beginning very much in a raw blackened death metal style, they eventually made their big melodeath breakthrough on 2004’s Twilight of the Thunder God. Turning up the melody, this […]
You have no doubt been involved in a conversation where a version of the following question has been asked; “If you could only take 10 albums with you to a desert island to listen to forevermore, what would you take?” Which is just a fancy way of saying what is […]
Melodic death metal’s long time purveyors of catchy hooks and virtuoso performances Children of Bodom sadly called it a day back in 2019 with their final album Hexed. Following the heart breaking tragic passing of frontman Alexi Laiho in early 2021, the follow up project Bodom After Midnight has likely […]
