Tag: Dark Descent
Last Rites Presents: Our Most Anticipated Albums Of 2025, Part 2
It’s time for Part 2 of Last Rites’ super-prestigious Most Anticipated Albums Of 2025. If you’re just now diving in, don’t forget to follow through to the first part, which you can find here. TEITANBLOOD …
Mortal Wound – The Anus Of The World Review
[Front cover artwork by Karina] A depiction of a Mortal Wound super-fan: If you are lucky enough to have parental units that counted your safety and prosperity as a top priority amidst your youth, then …
Septage – Septic Worship (Intolerant Spree Of Infesting Forms) Review
“Get in, loser. We’re going grinding…” That’s what Septic Worship says to me from the first instant, the opening five-second blastfest of the wonderfully titled “Inauguration Of Septic Tank Release And Epic Faecal Sludge Chug-Off.” …
Sovereign – Altered Realities Review
[AWESOME cover art by Skaðvaldur] Sovereign is a thrashy band from Norway. They intermingle with other thrashy bands from Norway (one member has even played live with scene kings Nekormantheon). But Sovereign does not necessarily …
Castrator – Defiled In Oblivion Review
[Cover artwork by the inimitable Jon Zig] I’ll be honest and quickly admit the following right from the jump: For reasons having zero to do with the actual quality of the release, I have spent …
Anatomia / Undergang – Split (2022) Review
In all of heavy metal’s fifty-ish glorious years, how many conversations have been had the world around concerning some variation on the theme “Who is the heaviest of them all?” Tens of thousands, no doubt. …
Septage ‒ Septisk Eradikasyon Review
Even in a year as loaded with great goregrind as 2020, the debut demo from Copenhagen’s Septage really stood out. Septic Decadence was four tunes in just under 12 minutes, loaded with blasts and tremolo …
Anatomia – Corporeal Torment Review
You remember that godawful REM song from way back, “Shiny Happy People?” The people that Michael Stipe was singing about… well, they weren’t the guys in Anatomia, that’s for sure. To all outward appearances, these …