Tag: Dark Descent
Coffin Texts – The Tomb Of Infinite Ritual Review
To get the inevitable out of the way: yes, Coffin Texts is a death metal band with a lyrical and thematic focus on ancient Egypt, so unless you’ve been living under some remarkably insulated rock …
Horrendous – The Chills Review
The Chills is the debut album from American death metal act, Horrendous. While the band’s name might be Horrendous, thankfully, its music is not. Unfortunately there is something else The Chills is not: original. Horrendous …
Cryptborn – In The Grasp Of The Starving Dead Review
As the serrated fuzz of the Boss Heavy Metal pedal rips through the speakers in the opening strains of “A Feast for the Grave”, the first track on Cryptborn’s Into the Grasp of the Starving …
Death Strike – Fuckin’ Death (Reissue) Review
Though they bear different names and a few different members, Death Strike and Master are largely the same, with the former serving mostly as a brief mid-1980s departure from the latter for Master-mind Paul Speckmann, whose distinctive …
Corpsessed – The Dagger And The Chalice Review
Originally written by Jordan Campbell A punny name that’s borderline unpronounceable. Dull, black-and-gray cover art. A Dark Descent logo plastered on the spine. Care to venture a guess as to what we have here? Well, if you’ve …
Miasmal – Miasmal Review
I must admit that my heart skipped a beat when I saw Miasmal’s debut in our review queue here at MetalReview. However, my excitement was not due to a positive previous encounter with Miasmal’s music. …
Uncanny – MCMXCI-MCMXCIV Review
A few weeks back, I covered the other half of Dark Descent’s recent two-fer of almost-forgotten Swedish death metal discographies, Toxaemia’s Buried To Rise. Not to re-hash my past work (especially since it’s not long …
Toxaemia – Buried To Rise Review
Forgotten early Swedish death metal band Toxaemia gets the double-disc deluxe treatment with Buried To Rise, but there’s a bit of a hitch – it’s the same disc twice, albeit in different forms. The first …