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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Death Metal Reviews
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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DIABOLIC OATH – PROFANE DEATH EXODUS (Sentient Ruin Laboratories)
Diabolic Oath have crafted a monstrous maelstrom of suffocating, strangulating, all-consuming chaos on their debut full-length, ‘Profane Death Exodus’ –
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BLOOD INCANTATION – HIDDEN HISTORY OF THE HUMAN RACE LP (Century Media Records)
Drawing heavily on the old-school, ancient brilliance of bands like latter-era Death, Morbid Angel and Pestilence as well as the
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ABHOMINE – PROSELYTE PARASITE PLAGUE LP (Osmose Productions / Hells Headbangers Records)
Veteran wreckers Pete Helmkamp and Cazz Grant condense an unmerciful barrage of violence into 23 minutes on Abhomine’s brief but
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VADER – SOLITUDE IN MADNESS (Nuclear Blast)
If anything, the world has become an even more unbearable place since Vader exploded onto the scene with their landmark
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SEPULCHRAL CURSE – ONLY ASHES REMAIN (Transcending Obscurity Records)
‘Only Ashes Remain’ is the debut full-length from Sepulchral Curse and it comprises precisely three-quarters of an hour of captivating
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SHEZMU – À TRAVERS LES LAMBEAUX (Krucyator Productions)
There’s anguish, anger, grief and lunacy aplenty to be savoured on Shezmu’s debut full-length, ‘À Travers Les Lambeaux’ – a
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CRYPTWORM – REEKING GUNK OF ABHORRENCE MLP (Me Saco Un Ojo Records)
If neither the artwork nor name of this mini-album give it away, then a cursory glance at the four song
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BEAST OF REVELATION – THE ANCIENT RITUAL OF DEATH LP (Iron Bonehead Productions)
Beast Of Revelation are in no hurry whatsoever with their slow, crushing Death / Doom. It’s premeditated, calculated, deliberated; death
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DISEMBOWELMENT – TRANSCENDENCE INTO THE PERIPHERAL 2LP (Relapse Records)
The extreme metal landscape was a lot different back in 1993 when Disembowelment released their first and only album, ‘Transcendence
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CAULDRON BLACK RAM – SLAVER (20 Buck Spin)
There’s plenty of intrigue and enjoyment to be found in Cauldron Black Ram’s fourth full-length, ‘Slaver’, which is sure to
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MORBID ANGEL – FORMULAS FATAL TO THE FLESH 2LP (Earache Records)
Even though it was a frankly unbelievable 22 years ago, I can still distinctly remember initially giving Morbid Angel’s fifth
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HUMAN AGONY – PUTRESCENCE OF CALVARY LP (Invictus Productions / Final Agony Records)
Here’s half an hour of hellish bestial blasphemy to make your fucked-up day and life a little more bearable. Towards
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