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,...

American tech death metallers Vale Of Pnath's 2011 debut album 'The Prodigal Empire' was real masterpiece and probably my favorite death metal album that particular year, and I still play that album every now and then. Now they are back with the follow up simply entitled 'II'. The album has actually been out for quite a while already, it only took me about a year to realize that it...

Hideous Divinity has been through several line-up changes since the start back in 2007 with Enrico Schettino (ex-Hour Of Penance) as the only remaining member from the original line-up. Their previous two albums were both quite good, but with their latest effort entitled 'Adveniens' Hideous Divinity proves that they really mean business and in my opinion this is by far their best effort to date. Their style is technical...

Fruit Of The Poisoned Tree is the debut album of American technical death metal band Virulent Depravity, and it's a remarkable strong debut as well. The music is quite complex with thundering drums as the foundation with blastbeats, breaks and tempo changes, but what really makes this album stand out are the guitars. If you're into riffing guitars, insane but yet tasteful guitar harmonies and leads then you've come...

Third full length album from Bay Area progressive death metal band Inanimate Existence, entitled ‘Calling from a dream’ is a conceptual story of a young man’s journey to reunite with the soul of his lost lover. Through his dreams, she guide’s him across a dark mysterious world filled with gods and demons. So much for the lyrical concept, let’s focus on the music. With ‘Calling from a dream’ the...

I not quite sure whether its Job For A Cowboy or my musical taste that have gone through significant changes since the last time I reviewed an album from these guys – but something is different for sure. Starting as a metal core/death core band Job For A Cowboy has gradually turned more and more towards technical death metal and with ‘Sun Eater’ they have finally found their place...

‘The Aura’, the debut album of Canadian technical death metal outfit Beyond Creation was some kind of a well-hidden treasure for a couple of years until it was re-released by Season Of Mist last year. It was simply a stunning debut showing both amazing musicianship, as well as the bands ability to create great songs. Now the highly anticipated follow up album is here and I must admit that...

After their self-released debut album ‘Empire Of The Obscene’ Boston based Revocation signed with Relapse Records and another three album were released before the journey went on to Metal Blade records and the release of their fifth studio album entitled ‘Deathless’. Musically Revocation is operating in the interface between technical death metal and thrash metal. I guess you can say that they offer the best of both worlds. On...

Swedish technical death metallers Soreption delivered a very strong debut with their 2010 release ‘Deterioration Of Minds’ and now they are back with the successor which pretty much follows the footsteps of its predecessor. This means some real intricate arrangements and odd time signatures, sharp and catchy guitar riffs, blistering fast drums and aggressive deep death metal vocals. Despite the complexity of the material the songs stands out as...

'The Aura', debut album of Canadian technical death metallers Beyond Creation, was originally released in 2011 but has now been re-released by Season Of Mist. The band was founded in Montreal, Canada in 2005 and has only released one demo prior to 'The Aura'. What about the music then? Well, as already stated this is thechnical death metal and it's pretty amazing stuff. The technical skills of the individual...