TOP DEATH METAL ALBUMS OF 2023 by Through the Cracks of Death


His mind sundered by unimaginable horrors, Richard Benton’s psyche shatters into twenty pieces, each trapped in its own maze of nightmares more surreal than the last…

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Amon Amarth Books the “Metal Crushes All” Tour with Cannibal Corpse, Obituary, and Frozen Soul 


Following their Summer run crisscrossing the continent with their metal comrades in Ghost, Swedish heavy metal icons Amon Amarth will return to US and Canadian stages this Spring on the Metal Crushes All Tour 2024 produced by Live Nation; the band’s biggest North American tour to date! Direct support will come from Cannibal Corpse, Obituary, Frozen Soul. 

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ALBUM REVIEW: Autopsy – Ashes, Organs, Blood and Crypts


 

Autopsy is a band that understands itself. Like spiritual death metal brethren Cannibal Corpse, the band has core musical, thematic and visual staples you can almost always depend on (the poo-chomping album cover of Shitfun being an outlier). Think Autopsy, think the evil, Black Sabbath-inspired tri-tones, pulverising percussion, slow, menacing crawls blended with charging gallops, malevolent guitar lines, bowel-loosening bass, squealing bursts of lead guitar and rasping vocals, all tied up in a bloody bow of bodies being monstrously torn to pieces. 

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ALBUM REVIEW: Arborescence of Wrath – Inferno


 

Well, look out guys, we’re in for another brutal outing. See, a band usually lets you know they mean fucking business when they have one of them thesaurus type names. Hence Arborescence of Wrath with the surprisingly tame album name Inferno (Transcending Obscurity Records). 

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NEW MUSIC FRIDAY – New Rock and Metal Releases 9-22-23


 

What new Rock and Metal records are you looking forward to this week?

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ALBUM REVIEW: Cannibal Corpse – Chaos Horrific


 

On the face of it, “If it ain’t broke don’t fix it” is the perfect motto for death metal icons Cannibal Corpse. After thirty-five years of blood splattered riffs and gore drenched lyrics, you know exactly what to expect and disappointment is a rarity. However, despite the technicality so clearly on display, the band’s musical proficiency is often overlooked by those who choose to concentrate on the cartoonishly grotesque lyrics and occasionally controversial album art.

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PREVIEW: New Music Friday – New Rock and Metal Releases Preview 9-22-23


 

What new Rock and Metal records are you looking forward to this week?

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PODCAST: Glacially Musical 148 – Cannibal Corpse “Vile” Reviewed and Series Wrap-Up


 

GMP ends our series on Cannibal Corpse with “Vile!” Chris Barnes started to make the album, but was fired – perhaps unceremoniously. Enter George “Corpsegrinder” Fisher! Is this the best Cannibal album? It might be!   Continue reading


Glacially Musical 147: Cannibal Corpse   – “The Bleeding” Reviewed, Disected, and ______ With A ____


GMP  continues our series on Cannibal Corpse with  “The Bleeding!” A concept album that leaves nothing to the imagination. It’s also a farewell to Chris Barnes and hello to riff machine Rob Barrett!  

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ALBUM REVIEW: Till the Dirt – Outside the Spiral


In 1991 Alice in Chains landed themselves a place on the Clash of the Titans tour, opening for Anthrax, Megadeth, and Slayer. Unsurprisingly, a band now synonymous with Grunge wasn’t fully embraced by the largely Thrash-devoted audiences. The irony of time is not just that Alice in Chains went on to commercially outshine the other bands that shared the stage with them on that tour, the years have seen their tentacles creep their way into many a metal band and sub-genre.

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