Heading from Grenoble, France The Walking Dead Orchestra return with their sophomore full length album following up their 2013 debut entitled 'Architects Of Distruction'. 'Resurrect' is a concept album centred around the character of 'The Architect', who continues his story from the debut album. Unfortunately I haven't had a chance to hear the debut yet, but according to the press release this new album has a sligthly more back...

'Invader From Beyond' is a concept album and third full lenght offering from German based Damnation Defaced. As far as i recall I haven't heard any of their previous albums yet, but I'm sure I will check out both after having heard this one. Damnation Defaced is a death metal band, but not a traditional one since their style mixes elements from several of death metal's sub genres. The...

Deathcore is normally not my preffered musical territory, but I'll gladly make an exception for US based Shadow Of Intent and their latest release entitled 'Reclaimer'. Shadow Of Intent is actually so much more than just anonther deathcore band, and their music is an exciting blend of several music styles such as death metal, symphonic metal, power metal, deathcore and a touch of black metal. Their 2016 album 'Primordial'...

The Faceless mastermind Michael Keene has gathered a completely new line up for 'In Becoming A Ghost', the fourth in line of The Faceless studio albums, including Abigail Williams' Ken Sorceron on vocals, The Zenit Passage's Justin McKinney on guitar and Bryce Butler on drums. The Faceless are normally referred to as a technical death metal band, but theres also plenty of progressive metal elements in their sound while...

With their previous album Embryo clearly stated that they would be a force to count on when it comes to melodic death metal, or I should probalby say symphonic death metal since their music is more in the vein of bands like Fleshgod Apocalypse or Septicflesh than for instance the Gothenburg way of meodic death metal. Embryo doesn´t take the symphonic elements to such extreme heights as those two...

Sometimes the technical death metal genre gets criticized for only producing bands being technical for the sake of technicallity, and in some cases the critics are right to a certain degree. Fortunately this is not the case with Canadian band Deity. On their self-titled debut album they have managed to keep focus on songwriting, good riffs and song structures as the main objective, while individual brilliant technical skills are...

Dutch death metal act Apophys has been around since 2012 and ‘Devoratis’ is their sophomore album. Featuring members of God Dethroned and Toxocara this is a band with both experience and a clear vision and approach to their writing – song structure above technicality. The music is technical indeed, but you can clearly hear that composing good and well-arranged songs is their main objective. ‘Devoratis’ is a concept album,...

Infected Dead is a technical death metal band, heading from the rotten shores of the River Medway in Kent, UK, and ‘Archanic Malevolence’ is their debut album. Consisting of only six tracks including an intro and a play time of 27 minutes it’s probably more correct to define it as an EP rather than a full album. The material is both complex in structure and brutal, but yet both...

Genre defining death metal veterans Cannibal Corpse are finally back with their 14th studio album, and as always they have remained true to the formula that have been their trademark since the very beginning three decades ago. The one thing that really have changed to the better this time is the production. The allover sound is organic and fat, but yet crystal clear and the drums in particular sounds...

This Swedish power metal/pirate metal band was formed in 2011 and have proved to be quite productive with three full length album releases previous to this new one. The band name Blazon Stone was taken from Running Wild’s 1991 album and that should give you more than a fair hint of what to expect if you don’t already know this band. Though my musical preferences have turned more and...