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ALBUM REVIEW: Cartilage – Operating Altar

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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 →


Co-Founding Morbid Angel Drummer Mike Browning (Nocturnus), Has Died

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Sad news as legendary Metal drummer and vocalist Mike Browning passed away on July 13, 2026. He was 62. Decibel Magazine online broke the news, following a brief and kind social post from Morbid Angel’s official account on Instagram. Formed in 1983 by high school friends Browning and Trey Azgathoth, Morbid Angel became one of the original old-school, Floridian death metal bands. Browning left Morbid Angel in 1986 after appearing on several of the bands’ demos, but before they recorded their first studio LP. His music and drumming style would later feature on the band’s 1991 LP, Blessed Are The Sick. Following his departure from the band, Browning joined Incubus (the Death Metal band), before he formed Nocturnus. In addition to leaving and returing to the Nocturnus name (most recently as Nocturnus A.D., he also released an acclaimed solo album in 2023. Browning leaves behind his teenage daughter. RIP.

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ALBUM REVIEW: Tombs – Feral Darkness

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The new Tombs album, Feral Darkness (Redefining Darkness), is another chapter in the sonic tome chronicling Mike Hill‘s travels to throb of the abyss. To say this sounds like a Tombs album is a broad statement that neglects the stylistic shifting due in some part to the band’s revolving lineup. The first thing you might notice upon first listen is that there are fewer Black Metal moments. Instead, the album is driven by the kind of aggression that characterizes Death Metal. The vocal approach is not all guttural. Forceful declarations, not unlike what you might have heard on a Celtic Frost album.  Continue reading →