Tag: Death
Massteron – Second In The Spheres Review
[Cover Art by Francesco Gemelli] I need to make a confession to you, my friends. Lately, I’ve been taking a little break from pouring the sound of heavy metal into my ears. I can explain. …
Mutation – Esoteric Order Of Debauchery Review
Let’s just blow the lid right off this review from the start. When you absolutely, positively have to rip everything to shreds, only a band like Sweden’s Mutation will do. Debut Esoteric Order of Debauchery …
Dissimulator – Artifice Dissolves Review
[Cover art by Noah Cutter Meihoff] It’s been more than 40 years since Watchtower really ushered in the age of tech metal with their debut Energetic Disassembly, and in all those years, the techy arms …
Snet – V Bazinach Vedomi Review
[Album artwork by Tomáš Mitura] What I love most about Sněť is that it dips its toes into but never fully commits to doom. That is, Sněť is not a death/doom band. Rather, Sněť is …
Epitaphe – III Review
[Artwork by Petri Ala-Maunus] There’s nothing quite like that sense that you get as a listener that you’ve fully connected with an artist through their music. There’s about a million ways it can happen, from …
Ch’ahom – Anthropic Rites Of Sublimation Review
There’s much more than this plane of existence. Are you willing to listen? A few years ago, one of the more obscure bands on my year-end list happened to be Germany’s Ch’ahom and their debut …
Snorlax – Toxic Current Review
[Cover artwork by Rotting Reign] Having slept on the first few releases from Australia’s Snorlax, I approached Toxic Current—the Aussie one-man blackened death metal band’s third full-length—with fresh ears. I won’t bore you with any …
Ripper – Towards Rebirth Review
[Cover art by Paolo Girardi] There are currently nine bands named “Ripper” listed on ye olde Metal-Archives, but it’s tough to imagine any of them earning the moniker as well as the boys from Chile …