Tag: Death
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 …
Asphyx – Incoming Death Review
In a fictional world in the (perhaps) not-too-distant future that finds three quarters of the population suddenly wiped out and yours truly somehow surviving, there will be a night spent at a quiet campfire in …
Johansson & Speckmann – Edge Of The Abyss Review
“If two journeymen journey enough, at some point, they will inevitably journey together…” — an ancient Chinese proverb that I just made up Johansson & Speckmann is the rather uncreatively named pairing of death metal …
Insomnium – Winter’s Gate Review
The modern metal world will occasionally present us with the album-length song concept. Green Carnation, Gorguts, Meshuggah… sort of. It is not a new idea. And in fact, bands like Opeth, Cradle of Filth and …
Warfather – The Grey Eminence Review
Warfather’s debut, 2014’s Orchestrating The Apocalypse, wasn’t exactly the grand re-entrance Steve Tucker deserved. After fronting Morbid Angel through three albums – two of which are stellar, and one of which is certainly solid enough, …
Brutally Deceased – Satanic Corpse Review
Satanic Corpse, the third full length from Brutally Deceased, sounds very Swedish. Incredibly Swedish. More Swedish than Dolph Lundgren having a three way with Ingrid Bergman and Britt Ekland in a cottage in the foothills …
Temple Nightside – The Hecatomb Review
I don’t listen to a lot of death metal, or at least not that often. Stop me if you’ve heard this before. It’s not that I don’t like it, it’s just… well, I don’t know. …