Spanish Caustic is, admittedly, a name that had slipped past me until now, despite a career reaching back to the early nineties. What they deliver on Inner Deflagration is unapologetically classic death metal: blasting drums, thick, heavy riffing, and...

Advent of Wounds marks the second fulllength release from Brazilian duo Fossilization, once again issued through Everlasting Spew Records. Across its concise 36minute runtime, the album unleashes a barrage of dark, oppressive fury delivered with unwavering confidence and intent....

As one of the true pioneers of the American death metal scene, New York’s Immolation really needs little introduction. Descent marks the band’s twelfth studio album overall, their fifth for Nuclear Blast Records, and the third recorded with a...

Released at the tail end of 2025, Reckoning of the Damned, the sophomore album from French death metal outfit Death From Above, arrived as a striking and unexpectedly refreshing highlight. While the band doesn’t reinvent the wheel, their approach...

Hailing from Kalmar, Sweden, Eye of Purgatory is yet another project from Rogga Johansson—arguably one of the most prolific figures in the death metal scene in terms of sheer output. Darkborne emerges barely a week after the latest Paganizer...

Swedish death metal veterans Vomitory return with their tenth full-length album, In Death Throes, and it finds the band operating at a level that places it among the strongest releases of their long and uncompromising career. Formed in 1989,...

Blood Red Throne and I have had a somewhat complicated relationship over the years, largely due to the band’s vocal approach, more specifically, the blend of highpitched screams and deep guttural growls. Personally, I’ve always felt the band’s music...

Gruesome was conceived as a homage to Chuck Schuldiner and Death, not as a cover band, but as a group dedicated to creating original music inspired by their legacy. Their debut, Savage Land, became one of my mostplayed death...

Veins of Fire marks the sixth full-length release from German death metal outfit Deserted Fear. While the band’s early work leaned heavily on traditional death metal foundations, their more recent albums have gradually embraced a melodic death metal direction....

Massacre’s story stretches all the way back to Tampa, Florida in 1984, when the band emerged during the formative years of American death metal. After a handful of demos in the late eighties, their debut From Beyond finally arrived...