Klaïton is one of those sleeping beasts that has slowly been biding its time before exploding on the scene with a bit of a splash of their debut EP for 2024. Formed in 2013 from the Netherlands, this five piece brews a Death Metal sound that sounds like a less fuzzy Bloodbath meets Morbid Angel. There is a ton of groove brought from the dual guitar...

04/12/2024

The French band Infern debuts with this “Turn Of The Tide”, on the Dolorem Records label, a sample of old school death metal, but going further, with big influence of Bolt Thrower. Death metal and some touches of Obituary, Asphyx, Autopsy and other bands with heavy sounds from the 90s scene. A dense and dynamic death metal at the same time, with th...

02/12/2024

Earthburner has been waiting patiently for almost 23 years to surface; it just needed all the right parts to fully function. Formed back in 2001 from members of Death Metal act Broken Hope Mike Miczek on drums and Jeremy Wagner on guitars, the two wanted to delve into the more nastier side of Death Metal by incorporating Grindcore elements with thi...

25/11/2024

Recently formed in 2023, Italy’s Astral Fortress wasted no time to get their debut going, and 2024 gets it with “Spawn Of The Stars.” A rather unique take on a blend of Blackened Death Metal that is highly melodic in the vein of Dissection meets Limbonic Art, this four piece was careful to tread that line in the sand between the genres and the resu...

20/11/2024

Hot on the heels of their 2023 release, Ireland’s/ Poland’s Deadspeak tease yet some more new music with their EP, “No Respect… Neither For Living Nor For The Dead.” Those that know of this (now duo) that despite some lineup changes, still are going strong with that Death Metal style that has a Thrash tinge to it and sounds a bit like Death meets M...

18/11/2024

France’s Ad Vitam Infernal scorch ears once again with their second full length album, “Le Ballet Des Anges” just four years after their debut. Formed in 2017, this duo creates Death Metal rooted in the 90s era, though despite their rather early 90s approach in the vein of Deicide and Morbid Angel with their debut album which was rather concise, th...

13/11/2024

Italy’s The Blacktones have changed quite a bit over the years since their inception, each album seeming to get clearer and clearer since its start as an instrumental band back in 2011. While the core of this five piece is Sludge Metal, they’ve slowly been leaning towards other more accessible sounds, from Stoner Rock like Green Lung to almost Alte...

11/11/2024

A lot of ignorant people will claim that Metal is just nonsense and noise; lots of bands have gone to great lengths to disprove these insults all the way from the creative genius of Devin Townsend to the earthshaking popularity of blasphemous groups like Mayhem. But some bands take the criticism and throw it back in the naysayer’s face by creating...

06/11/2024

It has taken some time for Sweden’s Putrified to get some liftoff since their inception back in 2011, but this Death Metal group brings the Old School in full force and rather crisp sound, avoiding the typical murky droning, distorted sound that bands like Immolation or Witch Vomit do. This four piece takes a rather unique approach to Death Meal, b...

04/11/2024

Very little is known about the Netherlands’ Black Metal entity known as Bok. Spearheaded by MvG who does everything versus his work in other projects like Experimentum where he is teamed up with others, this project is more Black Metal than Industrial/ Ambient focused and is as venomous as it is mystical. A demo of only 5 tracks, it does clock near...

29/10/2024

Mortiferoth hail from New York and have been tastefully devastating ears since 2015. While not a very large discography under their belt between splits and EPs, they recently delivered a new EP entitled “...To The Abyss” which builds on their mix of Thrash Death Metal and continues to climb the rungs of the ladder for the title ‘cosmic Death Metal,...

23/10/2024

Inlandsys hail from France, and their 2nd full length album “The Fallen” is a fall back to the early 2000s side of Melodeath Metal and Symphonic Death Metal. If one is a fan of bands like Dark Tranquillity or Septicflesh (minus the clean vocals), they will really enjoy this album. The five piece have a bit of a grandiose sound thanks to Dan Swano’s...

21/10/2024

Orme are a three piece Doom Metal trio from the U.K. who produce heavy, epic music that is a bit bare bones, but still engaging without the sleepiness factor of Funeral Doom. Taking a page from Deathspell Omega, the band recently released their single track EP “No Serpents, No Saviours” which is gritty, thunderous, and about 24 minutes of pulsing d...

14/10/2024

France’s duo Morgue are back after a few years and sound better than before. “Close To Complete Darkness” is a thicker, more lumbering beast as the band shifts a bit more away from their Grincore roots and more towards Death Metal, but it still sounds heavy like their last effort just reined in a bit. Still touching on the Hideous Divinity and Immo...

07/10/2024

Deathcore has been pretty much known as the ‘workout man’s music’ with its rather bludgeoning style over the years; only recently has it been expanded upon to be more than breakdowns. Pretty much fans of the genre either love or hate it with little in between while it is in its early 2000s state, but with more ‘accessibility’ by adding anything fro...

30/09/2024