Indonesian brutal death metal newcomers hop onto the scene as 'Into Eternity' offers a promising introduction entry to Decayed Flesh's latest album, "Eternal Misery". Setting the tone with an eerie atmospheric build-up of melodic riffs, you wouldn't actually believe this was about to explode into pots n' pans styled drumming and brutal slamming rif...

29/10/2020

Inferi's latest release is in the form an EP, over twenty minutes in five tracks of pure melodic death metal meets technical brutality. The EP titled "Of Sunless Realms", continues the band's unique approach to writing metal with influences of myth and fantasy. Often the fantasy realm of metal goes in either direction of pure cringe, or absolute...

28/10/2020

Unreadable logo? Check. Brutal artwork? Check. Barbaric song titles? Check. That's the initial impressions from France's brutal "deathgore" maniacs, Héboïdophrénie... just don't ask me to pronounce that! "Cannibalism For Dummies" is the band's second album since their 2013 debut, "Origin Of Madness". On a first venture through the record it's no...

18/09/2020

Oncology are somewhat new to me, "Omniversal Antigenesis" is the band's sophomore and latest album and clocks in at 30 minutes and thirty seconds on the dot. A standard length for this sort of record. Brutal death metal ceases as one of the most difficult genres to stand out amongst, especially if you're a relatively newcomer band to the scene. The...

10/09/2020

Carnifloor is a solo effort band from Amsterdam. The band is inventively titled after his own name; Vocalist and instrumentalist Floor Van Kuijk, who has from what I've gathered, managed to complete this album by scratch including the recording process on his own. Having been in the brutal death metal scene for many years (Current guitarist of Korp...

02/09/2020

Stationing themselves between the heavy end of metalcore and the obvious deathcore scale is Perth, Australia's Entropy with their sophomore EP titled "Denoument". Entropy are enriched with their new vocalist Samuel Worsfold, formerly of UK metal band Sunfall, who is able to take the band's limits to directions yet unseen with an interesting array o...

25/08/2020

The bizarre genre-smashers that are Pothead from Czech Republic enlist an almighty array of goregrind anthems to their early 2020 release that is creatively titled, 'Skunk Fiction: The Tales From Žižkov'. Whilst the genre of goregrind is rarely taken seriously in the world of grindcore, there have been few exceptions to breaking the mould with such...

24/08/2020

The message behind Extinction's latest release "Smoldering Enfoulment" is interesting to describe. The band are righteous in their successfully driven passion to embark on the global warming crisis at hand. A situation that deserves more attention, so when it comes from bands in the world of metal - brilliant. Aiding their cause is the band's compe...

23/08/2020

Since 1993, Germany's vulgar-titled death metal assault known as Kadaverficker, have actually only released four albums. "Kaos Nekros Kosmos" being their most recent. Whilst I am not too familiar with the band's previous work, this record is full of creativity in the genre of death metal that often feels a little overdone. The band are wacky and...

18/08/2020

How do you beat a massive, hideous monster devouring upon the city of Manchester? You get another, bigger and better monster to start fighting the previous one! That's exactly what UK's rising slam fiends Visions Of Disfigurement have done here with their sophomore album's glorious artwork. Whilst 2016's album debut "Abhorrent Extinction" certainly...

16/07/2020

Creepy samples taken from the hit comedy-horror Slither begin the introduction to Kansas' latest brutal slamming death metal newcomer, Extended Putrefaction. If you enjoy your slam with some of it's more retro format then this here is for you. Five tracks in fifteen minutes of pure, unrelenting brutality at it's most honest ferocity. 'Dismembere...

12/07/2020

The Hallowed Catharsis are a hidden gem from Vancouver, BC. 2020's input from them is nothing short of a brilliant combination of technical death metal and progressive wizardry. "Killowner" is the band's fourth EP since their birth in 2013. If you're unfamiliar with the band or their previous entries then this could become a joyous voyage listening...

06/07/2020