When it comes to brutal slamming death metal there's usually two approaches to the genre, gore obsessed or comedy based. Engutturalment Cephaloslamectomy definitely lean more towards the comedic route on 2020s interestingly titled "Glam Not Slam". The song titles alone prove the direction of the album to be somewhat laughable, but at the same time...

18/05/2020

Is there anything Gut can't do? Perfectly executing catchy extreme metal as showcased on the album title track which boasts of a blackened sludge genre, whilst following track 'Altar Of Domination' serves as one of the most well produced sounding goregrind tracks I've ever heard. Further down the line the band are able to produce a plateful of vari...

12/05/2020

Azath are an international band formed via members from the US and Canada. Following a trend of revisitation of the old school death metal world, Azath are able to execute this genre perfectly with a combination of influence and a touch of modern production making the album relevant in today's scene. "Through A Warren Shadow" is eleven tracks in...

20/04/2020

Apocryphus are a death metal band from Peru, who's influences range between mostly old school death metal bands such as Pestilence and Malevolent Creation whilst also maintaining an element of thrash into their field. Vocals are mostly raspy sounding and again give reference to the older metal style from the mid 80's to the majority of the 90's dea...

08/04/2020

"Overthrown Into Oblivion" is a five track EP by the Italian death metal band Defechate. I believe the band to be a project overall with the two members from other bands such as Humangled, Glacial Fear, and a favourite (release) of mine from last year - Antipathic. The combination of talent between the members enables fresh ideas put into this t...

03/03/2020

As a one man band project, "Eloquent Atrocity" is actually not a bad record to release, especially in the knowing that you don't always hear about metal bands coming out of countries such as Iran. So in that aspect, there is a respectful atmosphere when blasting this debut album. In terms of death metal being released in 2020, there isn't any room...

05/02/2020

You don't get more brutal than a name like Necroticgorebeast, unless of course the music is even more ridiculous than you could possibly imagine, which it is. The self titled debut album by these Canadian monsters is one of the heaviest and most nasty records I've heard across the year. Following an incredibly beautiful yet grotesque album cover fl...

30/12/2019

With some great death metal albums released this month by Nile and Cattle Decapitation, it's easy to miss the small mercies and unknown gems, such as Plague Pit's "Labyrinthine", a four-tracked death metal EP. Ireland isn't known as the most brutal country when it comes to extreme metal, so that's why it's important to discuss how decent this EP is...

04/12/2019

Washington DC's utterly brilliant No/Más are as chaotic as they come. "Last Laugh" is the band's second EP since their birthing in 2017. Cycling through six tracks in only eight minutes, you might have already sussed it that No/Más defiantly fall into the grindcore catagory. The band are short, sharp and supreme as they carefully pace themselves ba...

31/10/2019

"Die Like The Rest" is the brand-spanking new album by one man death metal machine No One Gets Out Alive, from Bad Laasphe, North Rhine-Westphalia in Germany. Firstly I'd like to commence my review by stating that NOGOA is outright brilliant, original and fun. Probably the second most clever "slam" band since Party Cannon (with their bliss-fully cr...

27/09/2019

Czech Republic based Stolen Lives are a four-piece self titled "Thrash-Core" band. "Luciferův Efekt" is their 2019 album, full to the brim of catchy punk tinged riffs, battering drums and harsh yelled vocals. Whilst the concept of combining both thrash and core may seem totally treacherous and a risky placement, thoughts of the unlikely odds in hav...

24/09/2019