Tag: Death Metal
Obscene – …From Dead Horizon To Dead Horizon
[Cover Art by Skaðvaldur] When a band jumps onto the scene and releases its first demo or EP, there’s a general talking point around promise. Perhaps it shows promise or it may even feel like …
Static Abyss – Labyrinth Of Veins Review
[Artwork by All Things Rotten] The Great American Music Hall is a famous venue in San Francisco that launched in the early 1900s as a fine dining establishment / bordello before turning to music in …
Hath – All That Was Promised Review
[Cover art by Adam Burke] BIG There is no shortage of styles of music or bands that want to make their songs feel and sound big. Common approaches to doing so include adding orchestral elements, …
Tormentor Tyrant – Tormentor Tyrant Review
About 70% of the OSDM revival that has overtaken our beloved scene over the last few years falls into two main camps: Hideous thick riffage that often lurches as much as it pummels and gets …
VHS – I Heard They Suck…Blood Review
Fast Rites: because sometimes brevity is fundamental. By naming their band VHS, these Ontario Nosferatu lovers have made it clear they have no interest in modernity and there’s absolutely nothing wrong with that. That being …
Cognos – Cognos Review
One of the perks of writing reviews is that you end up being exposed to a great number of oddities in the heavy music world. Among the pile of 700 OSDM records that come out …
Wharflurch – Psychedelic Realms Ov Hell Review
DID YOU KNOW… ? – Sarah McLachlan once recorded a cover of Morbid Angel’s “Chapel of Ghouls” for a scrapped ASPCA commercial benefiting neglected swamp monsters. Florida’s tentacular hooligans Wharflurch have at last heaved forth …
Exanimatvm – Sollvm Ipsa Mor Review
There is death metal, and then there is evil death metal. Don’t get me wrong, death metal of all types is awesome, but I find I get entirely different moods from listening to, say, Cannibal …