Tag: Death
Azarath – Blasphemers’ Maledictions Review
Long-running Polish death metal outfit Azarath has returned to bloody action with fifth album Blasphemers’ Maledictions. The sound may be quintessential Polish death metal, but Azarath plays it with an intensely occult black metal focus …
Morbus Chron – Sleepers In The Rift Review
Originally written by Erik Thomas You could argue that Dark Descent Records has the monopoly on 2011’s slew of awesome old-school Swedish death metal (Entrails, Undead Creep, Cryptborn, Miasmal, etc), but then along comes Pulverized …
Vader – Welcome To The Morbid Reich Review
Originally written by Rae Amitay Vader has combined blistering speed and technicality with memorable songwriting for almost thirty years. Their ninth studio album, Welcome To The Morbid Reich, shows the band in fine form with …
Mordbrand – Necropsychotic Review
Swedish death metal band Mordbrand sounds a lot like a death metal band from Sweden, but as we’ve learned over the decades, things are never quite so simple. A more accurate statement would be to …
Gigan – Quasi-Hallucinogenic Sonic Landscapes
originally written by Jim Brandon Technique and talent; such things have been proven time after time to not be mutually exclusive by any stretch of the imagination, and there are few better examples of this …
Gorguts – From Wisdom To Hate (Reissue) Review
In our jobs as reviewers, we critic types toss around adjectives and the occasional hyphenated terms and hypothetical-breakfast-food-themed clichés like proverbial hotcakes. Amidst all my endless descriptors and terrible, terrible jokes, there’s one word that …
Pestilence – Doctrine Review
Originally written by Erik Thomas I’ll try not to rehash the last 20 years of Pestilence and death metal, as I assume if you are here at this site reading this review, you are at …
Death Strike – Fuckin’ Death (Reissue) Review
Though they bear different names and a few different members, Death Strike and Master are largely the same, with the former serving mostly as a brief mid-1980s departure from the latter for Master-mind Paul Speckmann, whose distinctive …