Opeth w/ Paradise Lost, Katatonia – Piece Hall, Halifax: Live Review
Opeth play their only UK show in Halifax at The Piece Hall, on Yorkshire Day. Local lads Paradise Lost join the bill, as well as Swedish gloomsters, Katatonia.
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.
Death To All w/ Cryptic Shift – Islington Academy: Live Review
Death To All rolled into London’s O2 Academy Islington for a sweaty sold-out gig and delivered exactly what fans were hoping for.
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.