Tag: Death
Temple Of Baal – Lightslaying Rituals Review
Satan surely smiles on France. Not because they’re content to let the world war around them, but because there is an awful lot of God hatin’ goin’ on up in that bitch. Several French bands …
Thy Flesh Consumed – Unrepentant Review
Originally written by Jordan Campbell Death metal’s second and third tiers are filled with murky waters. Also-rans and upstarts seem to float in a sea of muck, rudderless, until the wind blows them along the …
Burnt By The Sun – Heart Of Darkness Review
Originally written by Doug Moore. Music fans like to think of their genres of choice as purebred open markets. In self-contained worlds like underground metal, the audience’s shared sensibilities and the comparative absence of money’s …
Revocation – Existence Is Futile Review
Originally written by Erik Thomas Considering a lot of early classic thrash (Metallica, Anthrax, Slayer, Dark Angel, Toranaga, Xentrix, Onslaught, Kreator etc.) was much of my indoctrination to metal at a young impressionable age, it’s a …
Beyond Dawn – Bygones Review
Norwegian avant-garde metal-turned-self-proclaimed-“traumatic electronic” band Beyond Dawn gets some love from certain segments of the underground, seemingly perpetually cited for “defying convention,” but in listening to this compilation of their earliest works, it would likely be difficult …
Impetuous Ritual – Relentless Execution Of Ceremonial Excrescence Review
originally written by Jim Brandon It’s the cheap, gut-rotting whiskey that eats away at your stomach and scours your liver, or the scabby sex partner you’ll never, ever let yourself live down having unprotected intercourse …
Impious – Death Domination Review
Originally written by Jordan Campbell Well, these speedballin’ Swedes certainly have a knack for churning out terrible album covers. The generic, MMA Bro t-shirt that Death Domination wears is only slightly tackier than the Edward Syringehands dude …
Amon Amarth – Versus The World (Reissue) Review
originally written by Chris McDonald Amon Amarth has always maintained a solid balance between pedal-to-the-metal fury and more open, epic songwriting in their quest for melodic death domination. But they’ve also noticeably favored one more …