AngelBlast is a project formed in 2019 by the Canadian Gord Olson (guitars & vocals) and the Swede Hempa Brynolfsson (guitars & vocals) and "Rotting Paradise" is their debut release. It consists of two tracks of furious and melodic death/black metal in the vein of Dissection, named 'Rotting Paradise' and 'Descending Of The Immortals' plu...

11/02/2020

Here we have the third full-length album of England's death metal band Unfathomable Ruination. Their metal-archives page says something curious about them: In 2014 they performed on a sidewalk in London locked in an air-tight box and they played until their air supply ran low. So those guys are not afraid to go to the extremes. It is no wonder then...

19/01/2020

I remember when I heard France's Depraved for the first time - I was reviewing their 2001 full-length album "Decadence And Lust" for a Bulgarian metal magazine called Brutallica. I loved the album back then especially the deranged roars of the vocalist Kristoff Henry. Then I lost track of the band until now when I received their new fourth album "R...

11/11/2019

Napalm Ted comes from Oulu, Finland and it's line up consists of three Ted's: Ted Nugget on bass, Gravy Ted on guitars/growls and Han Ted on drums/shout. "Complete Success" is a compilation album with 42 tracks of grindcore/death metal mixed with solid dose of punk guitar riffing. Expect nothing but fast and brutal music that is perfect for neck...

23/10/2019

I was blown away by "The Union Of Flesh And Machine", the 2016 album of the Norwegian death metal monsters Blood Red Throne. I thought that it couldn't get more precise, more dark and brutal than that but the new title "Fit To Kill" proved me wrong. The ninth studio album of Blood Red Throne smashes the brain of the listener into a bloody pulp!...

07/10/2019

From Pula, Croatia straight into your face come the grind psychos Bolesno Grinje (which in English seems to be Sick Mites) with their album number 8 called simply "GRD". And it can easily grind your bloody ears to the bone! Prepare yourself for twelve ripping songs of blasting drumming (the drummer Luze is destroying relentlessly his drumkit), s...

28/05/2017

Directly from Vilnius, Lithuania come Infestation with their debut full-length album "Social Cannibalism". Defma (vocals), Dovydas (bass), Vytautas (drums) and Laurynas (guitars) assault your ears with ten bloody slabs of slamming brutal death metal in the best traditions of the genre. This means heavy downtuned guitars and distorted vocals soun...

10/05/2017

For many years I'm a fan of the Austrian extreme metal machine Mastic Scum and their brutal blend of death metal, hardcore and grind. I guess that's the reason why the fourth full-length album of the Swiss Carnal Decay appealed to me so much. Michael Kern (vocals), Isa Iten (guitars), Nasar Skriptishi (bass) and Markus Rothlisberger (drums) offer t...

11/03/2017

Escatology are young band from Rome, Italy and "Blasphemous Godhead" is their debut recording which is labeled as an EP even though the playing time is longer than 30 minutes. For those minutes you get eight tracks (one piano intro and 'March And Suffering Of Souls' which is basically screams and a bell ringing) of melodic death metal mixed with...

16/02/2017

Well, this is something interesting for sure! Stench Price is a band formed by two Russians - Peter Shalmin on bass and Max Konstantinov on guitars, both from the progressive metal band Kamlath. This debut self-titled EP has six tracks and the names of the guest musicians are outstanding. The drumming is provided by Romain Goulon from the psychos N...

21/12/2016

Lectern are a four-piece band from Rome, Italy and "Percept Of Delator" is their second full-length album after the debut "Fratricidal Concelebration" from 2015. I haven't listened to their first record but this one that is being reviewed turns out to be a crushing slab of satanic oldschool death metal played in the best possible way. First t...

01/12/2016

Does anyone know how many releases does the Belgian mince/core legends Agathocles have? I guess even Jan (bass/vocals) cannot name everything in the discography of his band. "Commence To Mince" is the new full-length album of Agathocles and it offers 35 minutes of oldschool punk/d-beat/grind - short songs, blastbeats and growling vocals. In case...

19/11/2016