'Worldender' is the debut EP from Graverealm, a one man project from American artist Barret Gingerich. The material on this 18 minutes long EP lies in the borderline between tehcnical death metal and deathcore, so I guess technical deathcore would be a fair description. The album opener is a short instrumental followed by five relatively short tracks of premium quality death metal/deathcore, perhaps not very original but it works....
Hailing from Melbourne, Australia, Habitual Depravity is the brainchild of brutal death metal enhusiast Jonathan Urwin. He is responsible for all vocals and instrumentation on 'Realms Of Abysmal Servitude', except from the drums where the duties has been taken care of by Marcho Pitruzzella (Six Feet Under, Vile, The Faceless, Vital Remains, Brain Drill). This is intricate, brutal death metal where hard riffing, but yet melodic guitars and bass...
Cognitive's 2016 album 'Deformity' was frequently played at my home around it's release, and now the New Jersey based tehcnical death metal force are back with the follow up which is their third studio album and their second for Unique Leader Records. Cognitive's style lies in the more brutal end of the tech death genre but still well structured and melodic. On the vocal side various styles are uesed...
San Diego, California based Gravespell are back with their sophomore album to follow up their 2013 debut 'Gaia Terminus'. Their style is a mixture of technical death metal and black metal, inspired by Norwegian black metal acts such as Emperor and Windir as well as bands from the melodic and technical side of the death metal genre. The material on 'Frostcrown' is aggressive with a technical twist, but also...
French tech death metallers Dysmorphic are back with the follow up to their ambitous 2013 debut 'A Nation Of Casuality', and you can immediately hear that they have taken a huge step forward on 'An Illusive Progress'. Dysmorphic's style is a mixture of intricate technical death metal and elements of more brutal death metal, but they aren't afraid to step off the accellerator every now and then to make...
'Impetus Of Death' is the title of second full length album from Finnish death metal act Corpsessed, following up their 2014 debut. Their sound and style is pretty well rooted in the old school segment of the genre, with references to the early nineties. The songs are more or less straight forward death metal with a dark atmosphere and kind of a dirty sound. The production could definitely have...
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First thing first, I've never heard of Russian act Bufihimat before and the only reason I decided to give this album a shot was the fact that it's beeing released trough Willowtip records which is often a clear indication of quality. After having heard their new album, simply entitled "I", the first time I was asking myself what the hell it was that just hit me. This is some...
Founded by brothers Joe and David Haley back in 1999, Tasmanian technical death metal veterans Cryptopsy are soon about to celebrate their 20th anniversary, but before that a new album sees the light of day. As The Kingdom Drownes is the title of their latest offering, and it may very well be the best album of their carreer. I´m still not 100 % comfortable with Jason Peppiatt´s vocals, and...
Trollwar is a Canadian band, based in Quebec and 'Oath of The Storm' is their second full-lenght album. The album consist of 4 remastered songs from their 2017 EP 'The Traveller's Path' with refined orcestration, while the rest of the material are brand new songs. Trollwar's music can be described as a symphonic mixture of melodic death meal, folk metal and black metal, and parallels can easily be drawn...
'Hadal Ascending' is the fourth full-length album from German death metal act Ichor. The album links thematically to their earlier albums 'Benthic Horizon' and 'Depths'. The fictional story of a devastated and hate-filled deep-sea world full of creatures and mystical beings continues: Human warriors reached the hadal-level in the deep sea and fight a bitter war against gorgons and creatures of the depths. To implore transcendent energies, rituals are...