German band Profanity, who's history goes way back to 1993, was originally formed as a traditional death metal band but has gradually evolved towards the technical end of the death metal genre. Despite a carreer spanning over nearly 25 years 'The Art Of Sickness' is only their third full length album and their first in 17 years. 'The Art Of Sickness' is a modern sounding technical death metal album,...
Execrine is a French technical death metal band, founded in 2013 in Bordeaux. 'Ascension' is their second full-length album, but unfortunately I haven't had a chance checking out their debut yet. According to the band themselves inspiration has been gained from great names within the genre, such as Obscura, Necrophagist and Beyond Creation.....which litterally spoken sounds like music to my ears. Execrine has managed to come up with a...
'Ascension Gate' is the fourth full lenght album from German band Dawn Of Disease. Their melodic style of death metal is heavily inspired by the early Gothenburg scene and you can clearly hear certain parallels to bands like At The Gates, while the modern production also makes me think of Amon Amarth. Dawn Of Disease can hardly be accused of sounding original, but if you're a true fan of...
I'm not quite sure how to categorize the music of New York based Contrarian to be honest, but I ended up defining it as progressive death metal. The music though is definitely more in the vein of traditional progressive metal and it's not too aggressive sounding either, while the vocals on the other hand belongs in the death metal genre. 'To Preceive Is To Suffer' is the second effort...
´The Time Traveler´s Dilemma´is the debut full-lenght album from Long Island, New York based technical death metal act Afterbirth and what a magnificent way to enter the limelight. The album is released through Unique Leader Records which as a rule is synonymous with quality when it comes to death metal and that´s sure as hell true in this case as well. ´The Time Traveler´s Dilemma´comes as a fresh breath...
Utmarken is a Swedish folk metal band fronted by singer and main composer Mathias Gyllengahm, and "Förfallstid" is their second studio album. For some reason I missed out on their debut, but I will surely check it out after having heard this masterpiece. Through the lyrics the listener is dragged onto a magical journey through Swedish nature and history wrapped into the most beautiful folk metal tunes imaginable. You...
It´s been seven long years since the last studio album from Santa Cruz based tehcnical death metal outfit Decrepit Birth, but now the follow up to "Polarity" is finally here. "Axis Mundi" is pretty much following the same path as it´s predecessor with full speed ahead thechnical death metal as you would expect from these guys. Looking at the album track by track all songs are solid quality with...
Chicago, Illinois based tehnical death metal act Broken Hope was fonded way back in 1988 and they kept the wheels spinning until the dawn of the new millenium when the band was put on hold. In 2012 the Broken Hope re-united with guitarist Jeremy Wagner as the only member left of the original line-up. Now the guys are back with a brand new album entitled 'Mutilated and Assimilated', which...
Firespawn is a Swedish death metal act, formed in Stockholm in 2012 by Alex Impaler (Necrophobic), Lars Göran Petrov and Victor Brandt (both Entombed), Fredik Folkare (Unleashed) and Matte Modin (Defleshed). The band released their debut entitled 'Shadow Realms' in 2015, receiving mostly positive response from fans and media. Two years later the follow up is finally here and it has become an album well worth waiting for. The formula...
It's been four years since the release of the brilliant 'Pinnacle Of Bedlam', by far the best Suffocation album both in terms of song material, performance and production. A follow up album has therefore been highly anticipated and now the wait is finally over as ...Of The Dark Light is about to hit the masses. I've read a few other reviews of this album already showing quite divided opinions,...