California based technical death metal trio Inanimate Existence returns with their fifth full-length album in just seven years, set for a May 10th release through The Artisan Era. Even though being one of the most productive bands around right now, these guys have always managed to deliver consistent quality on every album and ‘Clockwork’ is no exception in that respect. According to the band themselves the thematic focus for...
Crafting The Conspiracy is a new acquaintance to me, heading from Odessa, Texas and they promote themselves as a melodic death metal band. I would probably rather file them as deathcore, but of course with elements of both melodic- and more brutal death metal. ‘The Cosmic Key, pt. 1’ is a six track EP with a total runtime of just above 26 minutes. Maybe I’m old fashioned but I...
Equipoise features an amalgamation of well-respected musicians within the technical death metal community, a death metal super group in other words. The seven man strong line-up consist of Steve Boiser (Inferi) on vocals, guitarists Nick Padovani (Virulent Depravity), Phil Tougas (First Fragment) and Sanjay Kumar (Wormhole), Hugo Doyton-Karout (Beyond Creation) on fretless bass, Jimmy Pitts (NYN) on keyboards and finally Chason Westmoreland (ex-The Faceless) on drums. 'Demiurgus' is an...
Swedish doom legends Candlemass returns with their first studio album in seven years, and it also marks the return of singer Johan Längquist to the line-up. As most of you probably already know Längquist was the man behind the microphone on their legendary 1986 album 'Epicus Doomicus Metallicus', and in my opinion 'The Door To Doom' may very well be their best album since that memorable debut. Leif Edling...
Heading into their third decade as a band Greek veterans Rotting Christ are still going strong as they strike back with their 13th full length album entitled ‘The Heretic’. While starting out as a grindcore band in their early days their music has evolved towards melodic black metal and over the years they have refined their expression from album to album. I really got into Rotting Christ’s music around...
I’ve read a few early reviews of this album and most of them weren’t exactly positive, so I guess I approached it with a bit of skepticism just to discover that I disagreed with most of what has been written about it. Ok, originality and innovation aren’t the first words that comes to my mind when thinking about ‘Drowned By Humanity’, but in my opinion lack of those ingredients...
Following up their last epic opus 'The Astonishing' Dream Theater seems to be moving in the opposite direction for this new one with a heavier and more back to the roots approach. My first impression of 'Distance Over Time' wasn't too overwhelming, and it actually took me quite a few spinnings to really get into the material, but eventually my patience paid off and by now I would probably...
'Anathema' is third full lenght album from Japanese technical/brutal death metal act Desecravity and like both it's predecessors it's beeing released through Willowtip records. The total runtime of this album is just above thirty minutes and even thogh I normally find that a bit to short it's actually quite a mouthful when it comes to this kind of music. I would probably file this one as technical death metal...
Sulphur Aeon is definitely one of the more exciting names within the death metal genre these days, with two excellent releases in the baggage, and now the german force strikes again with their third studio album entitled 'The Scythe Of Cosmic Chaos'. The majority of the material is mid tempo stuff with a beautiful dark and epic atmosphere, but the album also include some more uptempo parts. On the...
I wasn't able to find much information on Subnuba online, so bare with me if i miss out on some facts here. But as far as i understand these guys are hailing from the US, or to be more specific Toledo, Ohio, and 'Distant Pixels' is their debut album. Their style can be described as a mixture of technical death metal and progressive metal, where the instrumental parts is...