Over the past couple of decades, extreme metal has splintered into a dense thicket of subgenres, and even seasoned listeners can struggle to pin down where certain bands belong. Pathology, however, has long been rooted firmly in the brutal end of the death metal spectrum, more precisely, the slamming brutal death metal niche. Yet their last few releases have hinted at a shift, and The Everlasting Plague makes that...

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...

German based Stillbirth are back with their fifth studio album entitled ‘Annihilation of Mankind’. While their 2015 album ‘Global Error’ sorted in the borderline between traditional death metal and brutal death metal, this new one is definitely a step toward more brutality. Within the death metal genre a whole waste of sub-genres has evolved over the years, and to be honest I’ve lost count over them a long time...

The history of this Japanese brutal death metal act goes way back to 1997. Their debut album was released in '99 before the band split up in 2001, then they reformed from 2001 to 2005 before taking another long break until they once again rose from the ashes in 2015. Finally the follow up to 'Supreme Entity' is here, released through reknowned death metal label Unique Leader Records. The...

Heading from Houston, Texas Desecrate The Faith are back with their second full lentght album entitled 'Unholy Infestation' to follow up their 2014 debut 'Disfigured Arrangement'. We're talking brutal death metal the American way, no bullshit - straight forwad death metal in other words. Allthough it's full speed ahead more or less all the way there are quite a few interesting riffs and themes to be found on this...

Entity Of Malevolence is det debut album of American band Abhorrent Deformity and this is definitely not music for tender souls. Brutal death metal with massive blast beats and hard riffing guitars topped with deep guttural vocal grunts. There are parts where vocals changes to a more mid-range screming type as well, but personally I think the deeper vocals works best. Despite the fact that most of the material...

Swedish death metallers SYN:DROM delived a very promising debut in their 2010 release ´With Flesh Unbound´, and now they are finally back with the anticipated follow-up album entitled ´Iconoclasm´. The new album consists of 10 tracks of furious and brutal death metal with lightning fast blast beats and angry guitars leading the way. Despite the brutality and the speed of the songs there are lots of intricate details and...

One of this years most anticipated extreme metal albums is finally here. American veterans and masters of brutal death metal, SUFFOCATION, are back with a vengeance nearly four years after their previous effort. ´Pinnacle Of Bedlam´is the bands seventh studio album, and their foruth since the reunion. Speaking of reunions, drummer Dave Culross has rejoined the band ahead of this release. I´m not sure wether or not it´s Dave´s...