Reviews written by: Connor

Reviews

Engorgement - Excrutiating Intestinal Lacerations

New signees of Comatose Music, Engorgement, are formed from members of Embryonic Depravity and Gore Sanctum. These guys play a form of brutal death metal that we all know and love. The guttural slam type of course. Now it's worth saying that this type of death metal has nearly become a faux pas as there are so many gay bands trying their hand at th...

05/08/2012

Malfeitor - Dum Morior Orior

Malfeitor are old hands of the scene of death metal. Its something theyve been doing for a long time and were about in the first instance of old school swedish death metal alongside Dismember, Entombed and Grave back in the late 80s/early 90s. But whilst all the others got discovered and had a break and as you all know the rest is history unfort...

17/07/2012

Whoretopsy - They Did Unspeakable Things

Whoretopsy?!?! What a terrible name for a band. It seems bands these days are continually trying to push the boundaries of whats acceptable and whats just plain not. Yet again we're presented with a band whose whole album is dedicated to the mutilation and maiming women and unfortunately.... children. The whole scene is saturated with bands whose l...

17/07/2012

Revel In Flesh - Deathevokation

Originating from Germany and naming themselves after a classic Entombed track from none other than their finest hour, Left Hand Path, Revel In flesh pay homage to the trademark Swedish sound with their debut album, "Deathevokation". I will also mention that on first observation, whilst the artwork and packaging looks the business indeed, doesn't it...

11/06/2012

The Brothers Highhorse - Invasion

A rather peculiar name, The Brothers Highhorse is for a band I have to say. This EP artwork reminds me of that dreadful Hypocrisy album that was about alien abduction, eurgghhhh. But. Never judge a book by it's cover don't they say?! Opening intro, 'Warnings' is, yep, as I suspected, a warning of UFOs with abit of mediocre riffage stuck onto the en...

11/06/2012

Perversity - Ablaze

Ya gotta admit, the cover on this album is cool?! I thought so anyways. I was drawn to it and found myself studying it right up close. "Ablaze" is Perversity's fourth album and boy does it serve up some old school death metal by the bucketload!! The cover basically screams this at you a mile off. You'd be forgiven if you assumed that this was going...

23/04/2012

Spawn Of Possession - Incurso

It's been six long years since Spawn Of Possession's last offering, "Noctambulant" and the Spawn Of Possession guys have been spending that time respawning something as evil and twisted sounding. That saying, avid fans of the band, myself included favour the technical blastorama that was "Cabinet". Those unfamiliar with the Swedish tech-deathsters...

23/04/2012

Parasitized - Existence Unveiled

The last time I heard of a brutal death metal/death grind band coming from Hull was the now defunct but legendary, Introrectalgestation. It's worth mentioning that the pedigree of the aforementioned band was second to none displaying unreal musicianship and Parasitized are no exception. Their EP, "Existence Unveiled", is a 6 track EP which is absol...

22/03/2012

Human Infection - Infest To Ingest

Human Infection hailing from Virginia mean business! I hadn't heard of these guys before so I wasn't sure what to expect from them. I was underwelmed by the cover art of this album and to be honest kinda had them written off in my head but my god was I wrong. Kicking the festivities off with opening track "Sheer Terror", were met with the now manda...

14/03/2012

Braincasket - Methods Of Persuasion

Braincasket, hailing from this site's homeland the Netherlands, have only been going a very short time (since '05) but judging from what I hear on this demo have their shit very much down! Only 3 tracks are only on offer here from these dutchmen but fukkin hell, they pack a punch!! And what with only clocking in at the 7 min mark, it the sonic equi...

14/02/2012

Condemned - Realms Of The Ungodly

San Diego's Condemned new album "Realms Of The Ungodly" opens with a dark brooding almost ominous intro entitled "Eirgmos...Aidios". It prepares us for the salvo thats about to brutalize our ears. "Ere the Dark Sovereign" bursts from my speakers with immense power and technicality. Now those of you familiar with Condemned will know that they share...

05/02/2012

Dim Mak - The Emergnece Of Reptilian Altars

Dim Mak are a special band for me. Each album they have released has been a little jem in my collection. Each one full of guitar acrobatics, blast beats, gravelled vocals telling us about martial arts death moves right the way up to getting hacked to bits with knives of ice. Awesome stuff altogether. So of course when I hear they have a new album c...

28/01/2012