Beyond Our Sight is a 6-piece melodic metalcore band coming from Ghent, Belgium. Their style is actually a mixture of metalcore with melodic death metal (see Sweden!) and thrash metal. "The Void Within" is their debut EP and it was released on March 2019. It is self-released and features 6 tracks plus one bonus track. The bonus track 'Strenuous' wa...

18/09/2019

Let me get this straight right from the start. My answer to the question "which is the most brutal record ever made?" is simple: "Devourment - Molesting The Decapitated". I think this album took brutality right at the peak. I recall all the nice memories when it was released and I even remember my surprise in listening Devourment for the first time...

12/09/2019

Jugulator come from Algeria. They were born in 2014. Before that they had been active as "Curse Of Pharaoh". "Ad Exitium" is Jugulator's debut full length album. The band's style is mid paced thrash metal with Anthrax, Megadeth and Testament influences. The opening track 'Ghost' features beautiful acoustic melodies, slow/mid tempo riffs, very ni...

09/09/2019

For those of you who happen to know me personally or have gone thoroughly through my reviews either in my old paper zine Sewer Zine or in BRUTALISM.com, it is already known that I have always been fond of the Swiss metal production. Swiss bands from the most well known to the most underground ones, no matter the metal genre they had chosen to serve...

02/09/2019

Barbarity is a death metal band from Russia and were formed in 2002. Their early releases engulfed the brutal death metal sound of the early 00's. Their latter works were more death metal oriented and they even added in some grindcore elements. Having found their personal style in death metal and sounding far better than many other European or Amer...

30/08/2019

Don't be misled by the grind aesthetics of Odium's cover artwork portraying a bloodstained woman wearing a gas mask in front of the ruins of a destroyed area. Global Scum don't play grindcore. I would rather call them a groove metal band. They mix thrash metal with downtuned grinding riffs and nu metal elements to enrich their sound and create an i...

28/08/2019

In the fall of the 80's in Greece a bunch of newly formed bands using elements from bands they were listening to and adding their own character and personality, managed to create a wave while each band kept their personal sound. The so-called Greek sound was born! There are many bands who rose at that period. Rotting Christ and Varathron were defin...

26/08/2019

Mofsed from California, U.S.A. were formed in 2011. They play a technical death/thrash metal hybrid with heavy metal influences. "Rattenkrieg!" is their debut album. It surprised me that they didn't release any demos before, but went straight for the full length instead. Many bands of today prefer to DIY release their music and maybe this shows a m...

15/08/2019

Inert was an unknown band to me before "Vermin". That made me rather anxious to listen to their music. I have always been fond of the unknown. A beautiful atmospheric intro opens the album and deep inside made me sure that it was actually prepaping me throughout for a death metal attack. And I was right! The riffs of the same title opening track...

24/07/2019

Mother Eel is an Australian band formed in 2003. After several EPs and live albums, this is their first full length coming out in 2019! They entitled the album "Svalbard". Svalbard is an archipelago in the Arctic Ocean, constituting the northernmost part of Norway. Thus, what I expect to listen to here is something icy cold. The first song is 'S...

23/07/2019

Hailing from Luxembourg, Feradur have been active since 2006 and "Legion" is their second full length album. As many bands of today they chose to self release their material in digital and CD format. I was unfamiliar with the band, but the first song 'Deus (Finis Saeculorum)' is a dynamic statement and puts the band in the melo death genre with inf...

18/07/2019

The Schizoid is a one man black metal band from Toronto, Canada. Jason Smith (aka Schizoid) was the vocalist and occasional bassist of the now defunct black metal band Dead Of Winter. He decided to return with this solo project and "Pariah" full length is the band's first release. The album features 7 songs spanning to around 36 minutes. The pro...

17/07/2019