Tag: Death
Dark Tranquillity – Atoma Review
To the attentive ear, it’s clear that Swedish melodeath masters Dark Tranquillity have been out of ideas for over a decade. After peaking with Damage Done, the band largely delivered a (wicked) clone in Character …
Bolzer – Hero Review
Hero is the first full length album from Switzerland’s Bölzer, but unless you’ve avoided just about every blog of note over the past few years, and don’t spend one minute of your time on Heavy Metal …
Auroch – Mute Books Review
Some bands wander by mistake. On their third album Mute Books, Canada’s Auroch have made an album that, while not exactly bad, is very much not an album I want to listen to. On its …
Ulcerate – Shrines of Paralysis Review
If you were to plant a seed in hopes of producing a Oak Tree for future generations, that tree would grow slowly. Through diligent watering, staking the tree to keep it vertical and lots and …
Mithras – On Strange Loops Review
Mithras. I mean, damn. Mithras. I heard Mithras years ago when this site was still MetalReview and even then thought “for all the familiarity of this music, this is something completely else.” So in my …
Gatecreeper – Sonoran Depravation Review
There was a time, and it doesn’t seem like that long ago, when the combination of death metal and a boss heavy metal pedal would set my heart aflutter. Sadly, that time has passed. In …
Helcaraxe – The Last Battle Review
New Jersey’s Helcaraxe was already one of the US’ most promising (and least heralded) death metal acts when they dropped Red Dragon in 2012, but that album’s masterful melding of the melodic and the muscular …
Seputus – Man Does Not Give Review
What happens when members of a band which is essentially a giant “fuck you” to musical boundaries of any type decide to make music with boundaries? This is the central question Seputus forces a reviewer …