Tag: Grind

Track Premiere: Egregore – “Birth Of Death”

[Artwork by Lev Y.S.] There have been quite a few bands from the Carcass school making some fantastic music as of late. While this year has been fairly quiet in that department, bands like Pharmacist, …

Trichomoniasis – Makeshift Crematoria Review

[Cover art by Juliet Lacarne*] Postmodernism is a really wild thing to try to navigate in terms of art and music. Take Makeshift Crematoria, the first full length and third release overall for Californian duo …

FesterDecay – Reality Rotten To The Core Review

How you feel about this first FesterDecay full-length ultimately comes down to how you feel about two things: Originality. And Carcass. If you’re one of those who demands the former, then it’s very likely that …

Sonic Poison – Eruption Review

Do you ever wonder if maybe Beethoven was just pretending to be deaf towards the end of his life? Like, maybe he was just tired of listening to eight dozen violins go “eek eek eek …

Human Corpse Abuse – Xenoviscerum Review

[Cover artwork by Jose Gabriel Angeles] Take a journey with me, my fellow grizzled riff-gluttons who’d likely rather bong all the world’s remaining Schlitz wounded soldiers in lieu of sacrificing an original Effigy of the …

Defect Designer – Neanderthal Review

Here’s an undeniably sexy way to start a review of some heavy metal music: sometimes what ends up shaping one’s impression of a piece of music is dictated much more by the frame of reference …

Blast Rites #7: Sequestrum – Epitome Of Putridity Review

I know what you’re thinking. You’re thinking, “Sequestrum?! I barely KNOW ‘em!” Well, that’s because they’re new. Epitome Of Putridity is the first demo from this four-piece, recorded way back in March of 2022, and …

Razoreater – Purgatory Review

These British blasters celebrate their decennial this year, ten years of ferocious death-tinted grinding, even if they’ve been relatively silent for the last half of that. But five years out from 2016’s Vacuum Of Nihil …