Fleshvessel: Yearning - Promethean Fates SealedOut 28th July on I, Voidhanger, cassette version out 25th August on Xenoglossy What’s perhaps most striking about ‘Yearning: Promethean Fates Sealed’ is how it makes us feel as if we have never heard progressive death metal played properly before. The foundational classics of the genre were certainly rich artistically,... Continue Reading →

Izrod: Sarajevski OdisejOut 14th July on Signal Rex The debut album from Bosnia’s Izrod may be philosophically aligned with the grim sparsity of Eastern European black metal, but ontologically it is anything but. A dense, highly strung mix replete with layer upon layer of orchestral guitar work presents a flushed out, overwhelming dump of information... Continue Reading →

SARMAT: Determined to StrikeOut 16th June on I, Voidhanger Despite being semi-improvised (a faux pas par excellence as far as death metal is concerned), despite being produced by Colin Marston of Krallice and Behold The Arctopus fame (who is, to be fair, a better producer than he is a composer), despite interpreting progressive death metal... Continue Reading →

Aura MerlinIlluminations Dungeon synth is a funny old beast at times. Despite its package of alleged influences in ambient to neoclassical, that tend to favour longform compositions, dungeon synth typically seeks to miniaturise this content into brief, digestible chunks of rudimentary sonic information. Even those releases that take more explicit cues from the futurist ambient... Continue Reading →

Formless Oedon: Streams of RotOut 24th July on Memento Mori Formless Oedon’s debut LP ‘Streams of Rot’ is neck deep in the over saturated Lovecraftian brand of contemporary death metal. It’s a style cornered by the Blood Harvest roster at present, but increasingly pervasive across the topography of the international scene. Defined by dense mixes,... Continue Reading →

The lads casually chat Slayer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DzwWtZ4QLbs

The Pit: Of Madness and Evil WhispersOut 14th July on Personal Records A mere fifteen years after their debut ‘Disrupted Human Symmetry’, Mexico’s The Pit strike fourth with new full length material in ‘Of Madness and Evil Whispers’. Offering a slick blend of mud slinging doom ridden death metal and regal melodicism, this album overcomes... Continue Reading →

Tyler interviews Jan from black metal band Sammath to discuss their new album Grebbeberg and other topics. Also give Godless Arrogance a listen if you haven't yet. https://www.sammath.nl/ https://sammathhhr.bandcamp.com/album... https://www.hammerheart.com/artists/s... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VcnwurR-sY4

Serpent Corpse: Blood SabbathOut 5th July on Temple of Mystery Records Montreal’s Serpent Corpse offer up an honest if underdeveloped debut of basic death metal signifiers on ‘Blood Sabbath’. A concoction of Swedish d-beat and the playful loose blues of Autopsy weaves into a recasting of death metal as an exercise in repetition. Songs are... Continue Reading →

Tyler and Rafael interview Nisse Karlén from the legendary melodic black metal band Sacramentum! For info on the upcoming Sacramentum US tour, check out the Sacramentum Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/sacramentumofficial/ Official Sacramentum website: https://sacramentum.se/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wubwkVwHFyI