Tag: Death

Lvcifyre – The Calling Depths Review

A year ago I was just finishing up my top ten list when Svart Crown dropped a freakish slab of blackened death metal called Witnessing the Fall at my reviewing doorstep. Their Immolation-inspired cacophony gave me a nice pile of hate to

Daylight Dies – Idle (Reissue) Review

originally written by Chris McDonald Current heavyweights of the melodic death/doom scene, Daylight Diesdebuted with this five song EP, originally released in 2000 and now being reissued in a digital-only format. Daylight Dies has since

Vallenfyre – A Fragile King Review

The backstory of the formation of Vallenfyre has been fairly well bandied about, but bears repeating: founding member and guitarist of Paradise Lost Gregor Mackintosh, in coping with the recent death of his father, starts

Funerus – Reduced To Sludge Review

Funerus first emerged in the early 1990s, released a few demos and then vanished, resurfacing in 2003 with their first full-length offering, Festering Earth. In the eight years between now and then, long-time guitarist /

Death – Individual Thought Patterns (Reissue) Review

In its unenviable position sandwiched between the dueling masterpieces of one of the single most important bands in metal history, Individual Thought Patterns tends to get the short end of the proverbial stick. Thought Patterns

Morta Skuld – Through The Eyes Of Death Review

By and large, the works of 90s Midwestern death metal outfit Morta Skuld have been consigned to obscurity, a casualty of time and fading memory. The Relapse-released Through The Eyes Of Death is a compilation

Insomnium – One For Sorrow Review

Originally written by Rae Amitay Insomnium takes the rather vague classification of ‘melodic death metal’ and creates their own melancholic, complex, and driving definition. Above The Weeping World was a masterpiece; Across the Dark felt a

Krisiun – The Great Execution Review

For no real reason other than the foolish human yearning for order and symmetry, I’ve often thought of the ‘Big Three’ of German thrash – Sodom, Destruction, and Kreator – as having a cross-hemispheric counterpart