Tag: Xtreem Music
Avulsed – Phoenix Cryptobiosis Review
Avulsed is one of Spain’s longest-running and earliest death metal bands. And with a near-complete line-up overhaul since 2023, Avulsed is also almost entirely a new band. Only founder, vocalist, mainman, and Xtreem label-head Dave …
Körgull The Exterminator – Sharpen Your Spikes Review
On album number five (and first in five years), the black / thrashing maniac Spaniards in Körgull the Exterminator have turned over a new leaf and found their sensitive side. From the meditative Nick Drake …
Lord Divine – Facing Chaos Review
I don’t pretend to be any kind of expert on show business, heavy metal or otherwise, at any level, especially whatever level it is that somehow marks the transition from ordinary to significant. But (and …
Purtenance – Paradox of Existence EP Review
FAST RITES: because sometimes brevity is fundamental. For a band that’s been around since essentially 1989, Purtenance has released a surprisingly sparse amount of material. In fact, between 1992 and 2012 they released exactly 0 …
Drap – Rotten Till Allt Ont Review
Sweden’s Dråp emerged in 2013 with their first full-length, En Naturlig Död (Swedish for “a natural death”), which was written in tribute to vocalist Joachim Lyngfelt’s mother, who passed away from cancer in 2010. En …
Detente – Recognize No Authority (Reissue) Review
“The word from the Kremlin today is that any hopes for détente were slim at best…” That faux-newscast intro to Détente’s “Russian Roulette” proved depressingly prophetic, at least in terms of the band’s initial impact. …
Deathevokation – The Chalice Of Ages Review
Crude, gurgling beasts with weeping eyes struggling to pull free from slimy alien webbing. Dark, freezing oceans packed with stormy waves crashing on mountainous shores that hang heavy with centuries of moss. Inverted priests gazing …
Avulsed – Reanimations Review
Originally written by Ramar Pittance This is utterly disappointing. I look in the review queue and see a newAvulsed album. I immediately prepare myself for some dense, guttural, and succulently mushy death metal. Just the kind …