Tag: Death
Deathless Void – The Voluptuous Fires Of Sin Review
Welcome, all, to the thirstiest extreme metal album of 2024. Amsterdam’s Deathless Void straight up named their album The Voluptuous Fires of Sin, which I can only imagine is about the impure thoughts that went …
Diamonds & Rust: Asunder’s A Clarion Call – 20 Years Of Dooming You To Death
[Cover image by Keith Evans] 2004: For me, life and times were pretty much firing on all cylinders. I was entering my fifth year of living in the Bay Area; I had a wide net …
Taking A Demo Dump – Going Small With New Standard Elite
At nearly 15 years since their inception, you can’t really call brutal death metal label New Standard Elite “new” anymore, but in that time they’ve certainly become a, um… standard of eliteness in that realm. …
Oxygen Destroyer – Guardian Of The Universe Review
One of the many admirable qualities of the PNW-based METAL (all caps purposeful) band Oxygen Destroyer is its near equal adherence to both aesthetic and evolution. The band sounded every bit like graduates of the …
Krypticy – The Non-Return Review
[Cover art by Cadaver Art] Boy, it can’t be easy being a naked, glowing humanoid rapidly descending into a black hole alongside a particle jet of damned souls. First, there’s whatever happened that made the …
Octoploid – Beyond The Aeons Review
Here’s a thought: whatever you think you’re too good for, stuff it. Nobody on this wet rock called Earth is better than anybody else. Life swarms and stumps and squirms where it must; death equalizes. …
200 Stab Wounds – Manual Manic Procedures Review
From Maggot Stamp to Metal Blade in four short years, 200 Stab Wounds are – like Sanguisugabogg, Frozen Soul, and Undeath – riding a wave of seemingly renewed interest in simple slabs. Or perhaps the …
Wormed – Omegon Review
As a pretty avid gamer for the better part of 40 years, I see games… everywhere. And I mean everywhere. I can’t be in a park while playing an open world game without thinking I …