SIEGE COLUMN – DARKSIDE LEGIONS (Nuclear War Now! Productions)
When Death Metal first reared its ugly head, the air was filled with the stench of filth and grime …
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Death Metal Reviews
IMPURE – SATAN’S ECLIPSE LP (Chaos Records)
Comprising fiends assuming the glorious pseudonyms Horned Father of Desecreation (vocals, drums) and Satyrannical Lord of Assault (handling guitar and
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BLACK CURSE – ENDLESS WOUND LP (Sepulchral Voice Records)
Black Curse’s debut full-length is an unmercifully violent onslaught of punishing extremity, where chaos and utter savagery are accompanied by
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VOID ROT – DESCENDING PILLARS (Sentient Ruin Laboratories / Everlasting Spew Records)
Cosmic chaos, interplanetary bodily disfigurement, nightmarish surreality and – ultimately – death abound on Void Rot’s monolithic debut full-length, ‘Descending
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THE FUNERAL ORCHESTRA – NEGATIVE EVOCATION RITES LP (Nuclear War Now! Productions)
From the darkest of places, The Funeral Orchestra have crafted a soul-destroying album that is crushingly oppressive and unbearably bleak.
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HERESIARCH / ANTEDILUVIAN – DEFLESHING THE SERPENT INFINITY (Iron Bonehead Productions)
Fleeting it may be but this terrifying alliance between one of New Zealand’s most devastating death cults and Canada’s premier
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NECROT – MORTAL (Tankcrimes)
While Necrot’s second full-length, ‘Mortal’, is good old-fashioned Death Metal to the core, with violence and disgust pulsing through every
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YSENGRIN – INITIATIO (I, Voidhanger Records)
The hermetic, occult French Black / Death Metal entity Ysengrin has always been a law onto itself and nowhere is
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INCANTATION – SECT OF VILE DIVINITIES (Relapse Records)
Incantation’s legendary standing in Death Metal is so far-reaching and influential that every release is a major event – not
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ULTHAR – PROVIDENCE (20 Buck Spin)
Ulthar’s sophomore full-length, ‘Providence’, grabs attention quickly with the short-but-not-so-sweet ‘Churn’ delivering some intelligent and instantly-likeable gory Death Metal with
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DEARTH – TO CROWN ALL BEFOULMENT (Sentient Ruin Laboratories)
The hit is merciless and instantaneous, ‘Writhing In Cellophane Cages’ erupting through the quivering speakers with ominous intent, immediately confirming
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THRONEUM – OH DEATH… OH DEATH… DETERMINATE, PREACH AND LEAD US ASTRAY… (Godz ov War Productions)
Marking two decades of death worship, Throneum’s tenth full-length is upon us and ‘Oh Death... Oh Death... Determinate, Preach And
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TEMPLE NIGHTSIDE – PILLARS OF DAMNATION (Iron Bonehead Productions)
Temple Nightside’s distant, drenched-in-decay and wholly otherworldly strain of convoluted-yet-precise Black / Death Metal necromancy has never sounded more invigorating
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DISMEMBER – LIKE AN EVERFLOWING STREAM 2LP (Back On Black)
An undisputed Death Metal classic if ever there was one, Dismember’s genre-defining ‘Like An Everflowing Stream’ was recorded and mixed
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REVENGE – STRIKE.SMOTHER.DEHUMANIZE LP (Season of Mist Underground Activists)
The world is a steaming, overflowing sewer and Revenge are here to remind us all with their blistering, contempt-filled sixth
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