Cantique Lépreux is a french-canadian black metal trio from Québec and on the 18th of March they bestowed the scene with their first offering entitled Cendres Célestes which, assuming the online dictionaries don’t fail me here, should translate to something along the lines of “Celestial Ashes”. Read More
Category: Reviews
Wormed – Krighsu
In spite of their small back catalog, Spain’s Wormed get to enjoy a quite prestigious reputation in their home genre of brutal death metal. After they released their debut album Planisphærium in 2003 it became quite silent around them and they didn’t release their sophomore record titled Exodromos until 10 years later in 2013. Read More
Fleshgod Apocalypse – King
Since they burst onto the stage in the late 2000s, Italian death metal force Fleshgod Apocalypse supplied the scene with a steady flow of symphonic and technical releases. Read More
Conan – Revengeance
Liverpool based stoner doom trio Conan first started making a name for themselves between 2007 and 2010 when they released two EPs and a demo, all of them featuring their songs Krull and Satsumo as well as some material exclusive to those releases. Read More
Bloodiest – Bloodiest
After releasing their debut album Ruin in 2011, it became quite silent around Illinois based sludge metal outfit Bloodiest. Now, five years later, they’ve returned with their sophomore, self-titled album as one of the first metal releases of 2016. Read More
Enslaved – In Times
Enslaved are a progressive black metal band from Norway, that has its roots in the early 90s, where they started out as a “true Norwegian Black Metal” unit. What set them apart from the rest of the scene in the beginning was their use of keyboards, later moving on to the mellotron or similarly sounding keyboards, as well as a heavy lyrical focus on northern mythology and culture. Read More
Cattle Decapitation – The Anthropocene Extinction
San Diego based Cattle Decapitation have caused controversy with their music ever since they started, continuously gaining momentum, that peaked for the time being with the release of their sixth full-length Monolith of Inhumanity in 2012. Read More
Sanzu – Heavy Over the Home
Australian progressive death and groove metal outfit Sanzu first burst onto the stage of the scene in April 2015, with the release of their Painless EP, laying the foundation for what would go on to be a heavily Gojira influenced style of crawling, grooving, menacing death metal on their debut album Heavy Over the Home. Read More
Slugdge – Dim and Slimeridden Kingdoms
The UK based sludge/blackened death metal duo Slugdge drew a lot of the underground’s attention to itself in 2014 with their very strong sophomore record Gastronomicon. Dark and dirty grooves fused with death metal intensity and catchy choruses made Gastronomicon a memorable album that even made it into my personal top albums of 2014. Read More
The Black Dahlia Murder – Abysmal
Detroit’s The Black Dahlia Murder is a melodic death metal band that has divided the metal scene since the early 2000s, not only because of their unusual blend of melodic death metal, hardcore and metalcore but also because of Trevor Strnad’s eccentric vocals. Read More