itSELF are a 2 man project hailing across the pond in Brazil consisting of Estevan Furlan on drums and vocals and Ricardo Falcon on guitar and bass. Having done a little bit of research, these guys originally started off as a 5 piece but mucho respect to them for keeping their band going and doing it as a 2 piece and after a considerable amount of...

05/04/2010

Attention all fans of technical death metal! Listen up! For this CD needs to be heard! Let it be known that I am not the biggest fan of tech death metal but by jove this is an absolute cruncher! Now I had only heard of these guys via their connection legendary Nile sticksman, George Kollias, who is a fellow Greek and also their ex-drummer. This...

22/03/2010

The Russian death metal scene seems to be ever expanding with the likes of Abominable Putridity and Scrambled Defuncts at the forefront and new to these ears, Perverse Dependence! This guys tick all the right boxes for me. They have slams/breakdowns. Check. They have gutturals. Check. And they have blastbests!! But do they deliever it well? Well...

22/03/2010

I ain't heard an album of this calibre in a long long time! It's simple. THIS ALBUM SLAYS! This CD is the lovechild of none other than death metal godfather and legend, Kam lee (Massacre, Denial Fiend, Death, Mantis) and Rogga Johansson ( Paganizer, Demiurg, Ribspreader, Deranged, Edge Of Sanity). So as you can see it's of a fine pedigree so expec...

07/03/2010

I gotta say I'm kinda biased when it comes to Lividity as I much preferred the Matt Bishop days, I preferred the music and his approach to it all but I gotta review this CD for what it is so here goes... Upon hearing the CD, the production is quite crisp and punchy. It's very heavy which to me is what counts. The drums sound alittle too triggere...

07/03/2010

New york, New York baby!!!!! I dont think I've ever heard a bad band to come outta New York and Neurolepsy are no different. Simply put, this band absolutely SLAYS!!!!! "Disintegrated Cognizance" is a 6 track demo released by Sevared Records and I'll be honest, I was absolutely gutted when the CD ended. I just wanted more!!! The songs are brutal as...

26/02/2010

Insult are a relatively new band starting in 2004 and hailing from Sweden. This isn't actually a full length album but a compilation of their demos. Their sound is a dead give away but their latest offering on Daemon Worship Productions is an intense listen! They have harnessed that filthy old school sound and combined some new school elements t...

26/02/2010

I have always been a fan of these guys ever since we played with them in Chicago when my own band had just a few demos out. I have to say, live, these guys kick major fuckin` ass!! It's absolutely Slammin', Pulverising, everything  you want your brutal death metal to be!! They even had legendary skinsman, Jon Engman (Brodequin, Lituargy), behind th...

24/02/2010

Necroptic is a one man band project hailing from Nordjylland, Denmark. Now, these days it's really hard to come into the limelight as a one man project what with the likes of the might Putrid Pile and Viral Load/Insidious Decrepancy dominating the circuits and the airwaves but Necroptic is something else! After abit of digging deeper, I read that t...

24/02/2010

This is a lil jem of a 3 track demo that I was sent and I was very pleasantly surprised. Like I say there are 3 songs on this cruncher of a demo much in the vein of Deicide and Cannibal Corpse I thought. These guys are all the way from Holland and in this demo they make no bones in telling ya what the fuck they are about. This is death metal! It...

15/02/2010

I had seen these guys name about in various publications so I was quite eager to hear this CD despite it's rather silly album title, but hey never judge a book by it's cover right? Right, so the music then..... Upon opening the music sounds very grandious and quite epic ala Behemoth but with hints of their earlier black metal sounds. The product...

15/02/2010

Ya don't really hear of much Death metal coming outta Australia barre bands like Berzerker and Ya don't really hear of much Death metal coming outta Australia barre bands like Berzerker and Bloodduster. However New Blood are another band to add to that shortlist. First things first, the production on this is horrible. There is no real clarity in an...

08/02/2010