Umbilicus trades the blast beats for big riffs. The Florida retro rock band, featuring Cannibal Corpse drummer Paul Mazurkiewicz and Deicide guitarist Taylor Nordberg, just shared “Prelude: Eternity,” the second single from their upcoming EP, out November 20 via Listenable Insanity. Stream it below and pre-order the EP now. Continue reading
Death Metal has an endearing, crushing quality, but it can also be a genre where finding one’s own path can be difficult. Considering the hyper-aggressive nature that sometimes sacrifices songwriting for brutality, as it adheres to the sometimes monochrome, blood-red sounds of double bass and guttural vocals. Cartlidge manages to take on their own personality amid a genre that can be rather uniform in its sound and dynamic scope due to the common focus on aggression. Operating Altar (Everlasting Spew Records) is a weird concept album that has the crazy spirit of Acid Witch if they were not obsessed with Halloween. These guys are more focused on Carcass-like medical horror. Continue reading
We finish our Deicide series with their fourth album, “Serpents of the Light!” Is this where the band finally fell off? Or is this another banger? Continue reading