Xenith – To No Avail: Album Review
For a band this new, the sheer compositional confidence borders the outrageous on this thoroughly absorbing debut album from Xenith.
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Zvindiyar – Six Rites: Album Review
The debut album from Zvindiyar is a clear progressive death metal balancing punishing riff architecture with ritual precision by multi-instrumentalist Mohammed AlMeshkhas.
Demonic Manifestation – Grimshrine: Album Review
Carved straight from the crypts of Mexico’s underground Demonic Manifestation unleash chainsawing Swedeath fury after a six year silence.
Static Abyss – The Dying Hunt: Album Review
Death metal royalty converges into a collection of twisting and rancid doom-soaked carnage in the form of Static Abyss.
My Own Will – Misery: EP Review
My Own Will’s new EP is a concentrated blast of modern deathcore brutality, each track striking with precision, weight, and zero mercy.
Psycroptic – The Pulse Of Annihilation: Album Review
Two decades in, Psycroptic channel their legacy into a refreshed, groove‑forward assault without sacrificing an ounce of their surgical intensity.
Horrifier – Revelations Of Gore: Album Review
Horrifier haul Norway’s forgotten death‑metal corpse into a sludge‑soaked blast furnace, resurrecting its roots with their second full length.
The Great Observer – Loss of Transcendence: Album Review
Italian act The Great Observer unleash a debut steeped in death metal’s darkest traditions and most volatile mutations.
Infected Dead – Invicta: Album Review
Channelling old school brutality with precision based technicality Infected Dead unleash a firestorm EP.
Funebrarum – Beckoning The Void Of Eternal Silence: Album Review
A festering return from one of death metal’s most criminally overlooked bands, Funebrarum rise once more to drag the genre back into its most putrid, abyss‑dwelling depths.
Godless – Adversus Parousia: Album Review
Chile’s long running blasphemers, Godless, shatter their nine year silence with a venomous earth shattering assault.
Hrob – Brána chladu: Album Review
A harrowing descent into some of the most grotesque and atmospheric death metal ever crafted as Hrob unleash their debut album.
Fleshcrave – Godhand: Album Review
India’s Fleshcrave crash on the death metal radar with a debut EP steeped in unvarnished death metal ferocity.
Six Feet Under – Next To Die: Album Review
Thirty years in and Six Feet Under return with refocused, groove power assault that pushes back against recent criticism.
Teratoma – Longing Voracity: Album Review
Teratoma return with a hulking slab of bone‑grinding death metal that stalks with irresistible groove and merciless weight.