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ALBUM REVIEW: Amorphis – Borderland
Despite thirty-five years in the business, Finnish sextet Amorphis’ fire has not dulled. Borderland (Reigning Phoenix Music) is the melodic Death Metal group’s fifteenth album, and it is the same multi-layered mix of Death, Folk, and Symphonic, only this time there is a greater emphasis on melody, and it is not as heavy and bombastic as Halo.
ALBUM REVIEW: Paradise Lost – Ascension
Misery. Sorrow. Doom. Welcome to Halifax. Since 1988, UK gloomsters Paradise Lost have been dishing out the most downcast and despondent riffs known to man, and on their seventeenth studio album Ascension (Nuclear Blast Records), they prove once again there’s still plenty of despair to be mined.Continue reading
EP REVIEW: Phobetor – A Solitary Sigil
For Metal to feel its heaviest, it must also hold with the powerful attack of the guitar, a bleak emotional darkness to it, or it is just guitars beating your ears as fast as they can.
Phobetor has succeeded in finding the sweet spot here with their new album, A Solitary Sigil (Black Jasper Records).
ALBUM REVIEW: Scalp – Not Worthy Of Human Compassion
If the name doesn’t give it away already, Scalp is your one-stop shop for anything and everything devastating enough to rip the top of your dome clean off.Continue reading
ALBUM REVIEW: Escarnium – Inexorable Entropy
Coming on like a thunderstorm in the middle of the night, we have the new cut from Brazilian death masters Escarnium. The new album entitled Inexorable Entropy (Everlasting Spew Records) delivers nine tracks that both push the boundaries of contemporary Death Metal while at the same time holding onto the tried and true dynamics that make Metal what it is.
ALBUM REVIEW: Death Whore – Blood Washes Everything Away
After two high quality short-form releases, French death/crust act Death Whore erupt fully onto the scene with full length debut Blood Washes Everything Away. A co-production by Duality Records, Crypt of Dr. Gore, Specific Recordings, Hecatombe Records, and No Good to Anyone Productions, the band from Nancy unleashes thirty-five minutes of deeply unpleasant sonic punishment in the nastiest possible way.Continue reading
ALBUM REVIEW: Behemoth – Shit Ov God
Polish Death Metal titans Behemoth arrive with a more epic and focused sound on Shit Ov God (Nuclear Blast). Continue reading
ALBUM REVIEW: Kardashev – Alunea
Mark Garrett is a name that metal fans need to quickly become accustomed to, if they haven’t already. Continue reading
EP REVIEW: Unidad Trauma – Paradigma Egocéntrico Fatalista
Hailing from Tijuana, Mexico, Unidad Trauma delivers their latest dose of Mexican death metal surgically fused with necrotizing thrash and gore-soaked brutality. For fans of Cattle Decapitation, Brujeria, Autopsy, and Dying Fetus, this is a pathological onslaught. These so-called “medical practitioners” offer grotesque dissertations in sonic form, tailored for those with a morbid fascination for occult medicine and anatomical horror.Continue reading