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Ninth Realm – Damnation’s Veil (Shirt Worthy Dark Fantasy Death Thrash)
I’m kind of surprised I apparently never heard of these guys until now, but they keep themselves pretty hidden. That or I suck at finding the good stuff (probably this, actually). Ninth Realm have been around for almost a decade, but the majority of their output has been demos and splits, with some the […]
Ingrid Helland \ Norway \ old school death metal \ Personal Records
Horrifier – Revelations of Gore (Death by a Thousand Cuts Norwegian Death Metal)
I remember all those years ago (a total of three) when I first heard Norway’s Horrifier. Messy as hell, with a pestilent bite to remind you to stay on guard. I didn’t feel entirely zombified by it, in fact it was almost overdriven to the point of bubbling noise at parts, but I observed […]
Buffalo \ death rock \ Goth \ Goth rock \ haunt n' roll \ Marc Schoenbach \ post-goth \ Sadist Art Designs \ United States
Cemetery Echo – Civitas Lacrimarum (Mercurial Haunt N’ Roll)
I suspected I would eventually get a good Goth, or at least Goth-adjacent, release at some point this year, and thankfully Buffalo’s Cemetery Echo answered my plaintive call. I don’t know what it is about the genre, but bands within the world of gloom are constantly stuck in recapitulation. I get it, sometimes what […]
debonoir \ experimental black metal \ experimental death metal \ France \ JB Godefroy \ silver fox \ Slaanesh \ Transcending Obscurity \ unc
Viande – Monument Aux Morts (Debonair Blackened Death Metal)
For a band who’s name just means “meat” you might not expect much. I know it’s in French, but come on now. It does sound cool with the accent, however, I’ll admit, but if you’re a first-timer for the power that is Viande, you might be wondering if it’s worth it when they’re named […]
Adam Yates \ candid death metal \ Everlasting Spew Records \ Minneapolis \ Minnesota \ occult death metal \ Technical Death Metal \ United States
Nothingness – Godslaughter (Candid Occult Death Metal)
Need some power for the day? Or perhaps the week? Need it to come (as a friend of mine said) with some muddiness, yet while retaining enough clarity that the main chunk of the sound is never hidden? Or as the artwork above suggests, want to splatter your face with sound? Now that I’ve […]
Memento Mori \ Milwaukee \ raw death metal \ stygian death metal \ Tony Capodilupo \ United States \ vile death metal \ Wisconsin
Horrid Mass – Nauseating Ecstatic Degeneration (Stygian Death Metal)
Sometimes, death metal bands get way too verbose. I suppose it’s a method for hiding a lack of skill. It’s like a thing, or rather a trope, that’s been around for ages now, and at this point it’s more of a trick to avoid the obvious fact that most band suck. Toss in some […]
Australia \ David Kukoľ \ death doom \ death sludge \ deathdoom \ doom metal \ Lord Serus \ Night Terrors Records \ sludge metal
Reekmind – Glints from the Crematorium (Effluvial Death Sludge)
Ah how nice it feels to finally review these guys. Australia’s Reekmind sent a promo my way for their last one, Mired in the Reek of Grief, but I passed for reasons I still regret. Generally I judge on art first, and though the cover was completely dismal (in the best way), it had […]
Belgium \ blackened punk \ death punk \ metalpunk \ necromancy \ Void Wanderer Productions
POX – :BKW: (Necromantic Blackened Punk)
God I love bands of this particular variety. Basically, assume that anything named after a disease or ailment is probably going to be good, and in the case of Belgium’s POX we find this theory sufficiently satisfied. They never specified the pox, but who needs to when there are so many to choose from […]
Dan Goldsworthy \ death \ death thrash \ Exhumed \ Gruesome \ Gus Rios \ Mantas \ Matt Harvey \ old school death metal \ old school thrash \ Relapse Records \ Rick Rozz \ Terry Butler \ United States
Left to Die – Initium Mortis (Epitaphic Epigraphic Death Thrash)
“Respect one’s elders” is a maxim repeated ad nauseum all over the world, and in the metal community it takes high importance today with this unique release, Initium Mortis. Now, experienced fans will immediately recognize in the logo of Left to Die clear references to the band Death, as well as one of their […]
Blu-ray \ folklore \ Hammer \ Hammer Horror \ Hammer Studios \ horror Blu-ray \ Scream Factory \ United Kingdom \ zombie \ zombies
The Plague of the Zombies (Real Folkloric Zombie Mayhem)
Amazing, a zombie film that embraces the use of the term “zombie.” I thought they were extinct! When did calling the undead “zombies” become a cuss word in cinema? Writers treat it like the plague (pun intended). Seriously though, the 1966 Hammer production (reproduced by Scream Factory on Blu-Ray, which is how I accessed […]
