Spanish Death Metal label Memento Mori has just released US based THAUMATURGY’s second album “Pestilential Hymns” in CD format. From my investigations on Metal Archives, and also from Memento Mori’s signing announcement, I deduced that the band is actually a one man project, still their social media posts promoting this new album include a picture […]
In November 2025, WALDGEFLÜSTER present a monumental and ambitious work divided into two distinct parts: “Knochengesänge” and “Knochengesänge II”. This double album (which will be released as two separate discs) is a nearly two-hour journey into the melancholic and layered heart of the German band, an exploration of the light and darkness that defines their […]
I’m not that fond of Death Metal these days, unless we are talking some of the old gods and their legendary albums. In many ways Death Metal has become dull. Too many bands and albums are made over the same formula. Back when, what is coined as Cavern Death Metal these days, started to emerge, […]
Concept albums are always a delicate matter. Less so the concept itself, but the execution. “Herakles / Melqart”, the second album by the Portuguese one-man band CAIXÃO, is about the ancient hero Heracles, a hero in Greek mythology. Melqart was the chief god of the Phoenician city of Tyre and was equated with that Greek […]
“De Profundis” is the second full-length album from the long-standing Brazilian band PENTACROSTIC, an obscure and underrated entity active since 1989. The original edition was released in 1996 by the Brazilian label Hellion Records and now has been re-released by Caverna Abismal Records from Portugal. The style is old school Death Metal with doomy parts […]
As the world turns its eye towards many things unnecessary and unworthy, a true cult artifact rises from the São Paulo crypts courtesy of Caverna Abismal Records. This definitive reissue of PENTACROSTIC’s 1992 debut, “The Pain Tears”, is more than a simple CD drop, it is a vital excavation of the raw, suffocating atmosphere that […]
On the 31st of December 2024 Caverna Abismal Records reissued ARCHAIC TOMB’s first and only demo “Congregations For Ancient Rituals” with an added song from their only other release, a 2019 split with CRYPTWORM, making it basically a discography compilation. ARCHAIC TOMB was a Death Metal band from Portugal that split up in 2023 after […]
I find it almost poetic that this album, “Tragedies – Liber Hermetis”, originally released in 2011, has found its way back into the world, being the first one of the band 14 years ago. And I feel that YSENGRIN’s debut full-length was never an album meant for mass consumption; it was something intimate, mysterious and […]
I think HELIOLATRY is a name already full of science and gravity. I like physics and cosmology and stuff. So, taking a look at the sun for more than 34 minutes sounds very interesting to me. Formed in 2023 between Sweden and Australia, this international duo falls into the world of Black Metal with an […]
Being the lover I am of bands that play Metal subgenres with the word “Doom” placed before or after, I ventured into listening to another new band for me: MY DEMENTIA, from Portugal. A Doom / Death Metal band that came to enrich my musical palate from the very first second. Melancholic, melodic, agonizing, slow. […]