Tag: Death Metal
The Mosaic Window – Hemasanctum Review
I wouldn’t say I like the thought of repeating cliches or reiterating cringy anecdotes, but I must state that the notion that music is therapeutic will forever ring true. Now, in my 30s, it still …
Carnosus – Wormtales Review
[Cover art by Timon Kokott] It’s fair to be a bit nervous about quality whenever a band releases full-length albums in back-to-back years. That quick-turn approach can leave you wondering if inspiration was truly firing …
Immortal Bird – Sin Querencia Review
[Cover art by Kikyz1313] Prolificacy is an oft-lauded trait for bands in the metal world. We are constant consumers on the lookout for more tasty morsels to glut our filthy musical maws, so bands that …
Mother Of Graves – The Periapt Of Absence Review
Smoke rises from a dirty ashtray and drifts over the side table toward the yellowing windows. September has bled into October, unusually warm, and time seems to have stopped altogether. Day after day, the same. …
Blood Incantation – Absolute Elsewhere Review
Somewhere, in some galaxy far, far away, lies some poor creature who’s never had the chance to binge King Crimson’s Red, Pink Floyd’s The Dark Side of the Moon, Death’s Symbolic, Morbid Angel’s Altars of …
The Black Dahlia Murder – Servitude Review
[Cover art by Paolo Girardi] The passing of Trevor Strnad will forever be linked to Servitude as it’s the first album to be released by The Black Dahlia Murder since that terrible day. However, I would like …
Coffin Rot – Dreams Of The Disturbed Review
[Artwork by Wyrmrot] Coffin Rot’s newest release, Dreams of the Disturbed, is nothing short of a bowel-crushing, visceral death metal masterpiece that grabs hold of you from the first note and doesn’t let go …
VHS – For A Few Riffs More Review
[Cover artwork by Christopher Diaz] A gust of wind hurls a pocket of dirt into the boiling western air, and a tumbleweed scurries inches behind two boots planted firmly in the ground. The silhouette of …