The 20th anniversary vinyl reissue of ANATOMIA’s debut album “Dissected Humanity” is not just a celebration of time passing, it’s a reminder of how something truly rotten can stay alive beneath the surface, slowly decomposing, never really dying. And if you’ve been paying attention to Death / Doom in the last two decades, you already […]
SCALPTURE was founded back in 2009 and has released three full-lengths so far. With “Landkrieg” this Death Metal squad from Bielefeld, Germany continues with their focus on deep, historical themes without glorifying and pick up where they left off in 2022 with “Feldwärts”. As mentioned, this record is a powerful exploration of war, specifically focusing […]
LIVE BY THE SWORD is rolling back with “The Pagan Pantheon”, an album that has been three years in the making but delivers an unmistakable stone inside. This full-length offering sees these Dutch / American forces working together, refining their sound, combining the structures of their previous work with the music that defined their early […]
Everyone knows WOMBBATH. When I first saw the art for “Internal Caustic Torments” I assumed it had something to do with dentistry. I mean, look at it without judgement and you can see how the artwork could be a focussed x-ray of some terrible tooth that got infected. Now, not that their debut full-length reeks […]
Austrian Black Metal elders ABIGOR in collaboration with Darkness Shall Rise Productions have taken a look at the vault of ABIGOR’s past to release their demo material from 1993 – 1994. These demos include: ‘Lvx Devicta Est” demo from 1993, “Promo Tape 2/94” demo from 1994, “Ash Nagz…” demo from 1993, “Moonrise” demo from 1994 […]
The Pagan / Viking Metal sub-genre is said by evil tongues to have a certain Ballermann flavour. This may certainly be true at times, but you have to separate the wheat from the chaff and concentrate on the right bands. Alongside the almighty MOONSORROW, HAVUKRUUNU, who have created a contender for the best Metal album […]
Contenders for the longest band name in the history of Black Metal are 4500 ANS ENFERMÉ DANS UN VIEUX TOMBEAU POUSSIÉREUX ET SCELLÉ PAR UN SORT MAUDIT from France. If the nowadays much-vaunted artificial intelligence has not fooled me, it can be translated roughly like this: “4500 years locked in a dusty old tomb and […]
“Voratore” is the debut album from this Italian Death Metal outfit and it definitely comes through as one hell of a release. I really can’t remember a lot of Death Metal bands from the Italian underground. Shame on me. So finding bands such as CONTINUUM OF XUL, blending modern recording with an old school approach […]
The second full-length from TOUGHNESS, “Black Respite Of Oblivion,” sounds less an album and more an act of abomination. Released through Godz Ov War Productions, this nine track album hits all formats: digital, CD, vinyl and cassette, just waiting for someone to press play. The band has members of CONVEYOR, so they have been doing […]
Four years after their previous full-length, FRIGHTFUL returns with their latest piece of Death / Thrash Metal, “What Lies Ahead”, released in February 2025 through Godz Ov War Productions. This album emerges from the underground, taking everything they’ve built since their early EPs and demo, putting everything together into a weapon that explodes around your […]