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.
Godless – Adversus Parousia: Album Review
Chile’s long running blasphemers, Godless, shatter their nine year silence with a venomous earth shattering assault.
Blood Incantation – All Gates Open (OST): Album Review
All Gates Open is the accompanying soundtrack to Blood Incantation’s forthcoming documentary charting the genesis of their massive 2024 album, Absolute Elesewhere.
Tyrannus – Mournhold: Album Review
The UK extreme metal underground has been producing some genuinely exceptional work in recent years, and Tyrannus are very much part of that conversation.
Black Sea of Trees – Cult of the Sun: Album Review
Progressive metal and Egyptology. Not perhaps the most obvious pairing, but one that Australian band Black Sea of Trees have dived head first into with their new, second, album Cult of the Sun, the follow up to 2023’s The Spiritual Beast.
Dragged Into Sunlight w/ Vacuous & Plague Pit – Club Academy, Manchester: Live Review
Dragged Into Sunlight start a short run of shows in Manchester before hitting Incineration Festival. Vacuous and Plague Pit are in support.
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.
At The Gates – The Ghost Of A Future Dead: Album Review
Some farewells are written in fire, others in blood, but this one from At The Gates…this one is carved into the very fabric of melodic death metal itself.
Teratoma – Longing Voracity: Album Review
Teratoma return with a hulking slab of bone‑grinding death metal that stalks with irresistible groove and merciless weight.
Exhumed w/ Gruesome & Acid Vat – Rebellion, Manchester: Live Review
Bay Area death metal vets Exhumed continue their UK/EU jaunt with Gruesome, in Manchester.
Suffocation – Jesus Wept: The Roadrunner Years: Album Reviews
Suffocation have their first three albums repackaged through Dissonance Records; a period of time where they really led the way on the death metal front.
Kreator w/ Carcass, Exodus & Nails – O2 Apollo, Manchester: Live Review
German thrash titans Kreator arrive in Manchester on their Krushers Of The World tour with a stacked bill of classic bands.