Tag: New Standard Elite
Desecation – Despoiled Ethereal Purity Review
[Album artwork by Jon Zig] Important question: Does tolerance suck? Not all the time, clearly, as it’s often tied rather closely to the ever-important trait of patience. Additionally, developing a tolerance for certain things can …
Last Rites Presents: Our Most Anticipated Albums Of 2025, Part 3
And here we are with Part 3 of our Most Anticipated Albums Of 2025. If you missed Part 1 or Part 2… well, correct that and catch up. And onward we go into yet another …
Taking A Demo Dump – Going Small With New Standard Elite
At nearly 15 years since their inception, you can’t really call brutal death metal label New Standard Elite “new” anymore, but in that time they’ve certainly become a, um… standard of eliteness in that realm. …
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 …
Asphyxiate ‒ Altar Of Decomposed Review
[Cover artwork: Adi Dechristianze] If you wanted to give someone an example of a straight-down-the-middle form of brutal death metal, you could do much worse than selecting Indonesia’s Asphyxiate. While a whole heap of bands …