Tag: Brutal Death Metal
Stillbirth – Survival Protocol Review
[Cover art by Aghy R Purakusuma] If you’re reading this on the day it’s published, then it’s the middle of the week. Despite how popular that one Geico commercial was with the camel, real life …
By Spencer Hotz on October 29, 2025
Castrator – Coronation Of The Grotesque Review
[Cover art by Jon Zig] Despite forming in 2013, this NYC-by-way-of-global members quartet didn’t fire off their debut, Defiled In Oblivion, until 2022. Rather than continue to roll with a slow build, they’ve struck while …
By Spencer Hotz on August 4, 2025
Relics Of Humanity – Absolute Dismal Domain Review
[Cover art by Sergey Liakh aka Siarhei] If you prowled around these parts last year, you may have noticed our collective fell deeper into the corpse-clogged abyss of brutal death metal a bit more heavily. …
By Spencer Hotz on January 20, 2025
Best Of 2024 – Blizzard Of Jozzsh: Welcome To The Machine! Wait, What’s He Droning On About?
Sup, devils? Exactly one year ago, I published my extraterrestrial-themed end-of-year recap featuring a plethora of little anecdotes and assumptions about green or gray beings in superbly-advanced spaceships, navigating their way throughout the infinite universe(s). …
By Blizzard of Jozzsh on December 30, 2024
Fulci – Duck Face Killings Review
[Cover artwork by Wes Benscoter] If it walks like a duck…quacks like a duck…and riffs(?) like a duck… it’s probably… Fulci! Born June 17, 1927, in Rome, Italy, Lucio Fulci spent 69 years on this …
By Blizzard of Jozzsh on August 2, 2024
Castrated – Surgical Vicissitude Review
[Cover art by Rudi Yanto] If you’re lucky enough to be the kind of heavy music enjoyer who has surrounded yourself with other heavy music enjoyers, you’re likely very familiar with the ripple effect of …
By Spencer Hotz on July 24, 2024
Benighted – Ekbom Review
[Cover art by Grindesign] Fans of the grim and foul music we so enjoy will always need the serious side of the tunes. We crave those albums that make our skin crawl, send a cold …
By Spencer Hotz on April 4, 2024
Stillbirth – Homo Deus Review
Heavy metal is, of course, very serious business. When subject matters regularly consist of murder, depression, grief, rage and all the other poisons of the world that make the flowers of your mind wilt, it …
By Spencer Hotz on April 18, 2023
