TRIBULATION – Down Below
Sweden’s TRIBULATION took a big step with 2015’s Children of the Night. Their new one, Down Below, continues where its predecessor left off with a sound focused on incorporating traditional heavy...
View ArticleTHE CROWN – Cobra Speed Venom
If we’re being honest, THE CROWN‘s last one, Death is Not Dead, was good but not good enough by the standard that the band have set with previous releases. The good news is that Cobra Speed Venom is...
View ArticleNECROPHOBIC – Mark of the Necrogram
NECROPHOBIC prove that, as one of the proud remaining godfathers of Swedish black/death metal, they can always be relied on to create excellent albums. The bottom line is that Mark of the Necrogram is...
View ArticleGRUESOME – Twisted Prayers
How often does the band that is paying tribute to their idols go as far as to surpass them? Well, GRUESOME‘s Twisted Prayers is one of those rare instances where the students becomes better than the...
View ArticleIMMORTAL – Northern Chaos Gods
After initially listening to the first couple seconds of IMMORTAL‘s comeback album, Northern Chaos Gods, you realize that you owe the band a huge apology for doubting them. A raging storm of ice and...
View ArticleLIK – Carnage
The glorious buzzsaw guitars that rip forth in the opening riff of album opener, “To Kill,” immediately bring to mind all of those sentimental, warm and fuzzy feelings you had jamming to DISMEMBER and...
View ArticleTHE SPIRIT – Sounds from the Vortex
While THE SPIRIT hail from Saarbrücken, Germany, they sound like they were born in the metal Mecca of Gothenburg, Sweden. It’s abundantly clear that DISSECTION are, by far, their main influence....
View ArticleTERRORIZER – Caustic Attack
The world is always a better place when THE master blaster, Pete Sandoval, is actively playing music. After overcoming the arduous journey back from back surgery, he teamed up with...
View ArticleDEFILED – Infinite Regress
Japan’s unique death metal veterans, DEFILED, have delivered a whopper of an album! Don’t believe me? Check out the video below. As always, the constant is guitarist Yusuke Sumita, and his chaotic...
View ArticleSEPULTURA – Quadra
SEPULTURA certainly needs no introduction, but to this day, Max Cavalera-fanboys still slam this lineup as a “cover band” and continue to bash every album released after Roots. While there were...
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