MYLINGAR – DÖDA SJÄLAR LP (Amor Fati Productions)
Ferocious vocals are one of the trusted staples of extreme music – or at least should be. The best Death
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Death Metal Reviews
ENCOFFINATION – WE PROCLAIM YOUR DEATH, O’ LORD 2LP (Selfmadegod Records)
It’s a decidedly sluggish, laboured, drawn-out demise indeed for o’ lord at the hands of Encoffination, the masters of morbid
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ALTARAGE – ENDINGHENT LP (Season Of Mist Underground Activists)
‘Nihl’ boldly announced the arrival of Altarage as a potent force and its follow-up, ‘Endinghent’, was another remarkable record from
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ABYSSOUS – MESA MLP (Iron Bonehead Productions)
Five years on from the wonderful debut full-length, ‘…Smouldering’, German trio Abyssous hit back in the dying embers of 2018
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ALTARAGE – THE APPROACHING ROAR LP (Season of Mist Underground Activists)
Mutating, strengthening, conquering, like some rogue artificial intelligence or insatiable, unstoppable bacteria, the clone more potent and dangerous than the
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CORPSESSED – IMPETUS OF DEATH LP (Dark Descent Records / Me Saco Un Ojo Records)
Death Metal of the very highest calibre from Finland’s foulest filthmongers, ‘Impetus Of Death’ captures Corpsessed at their most punishing,
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DAKHMA – HAMKAR ATONEMENT 2LP (Iron Bonehead Productions)
More than 70 minutes long, ‘Hamkar Atonement’ is as close to a perfect journey as you could rightfully wish to
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NECROS CHRISTOS – DOMEDON DOXOMEDON 3LP (Sepulchral Voice Records)
Necros Christos cracked open the crypt one last time in 2018 to unvault this vast parting package of their instantly-recognisable,
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TOMB MOLD – THE BOTTOMLESS PERDITION / THE MOULTING LP (Blood Harvest)
Canadian Death Metal upstarts Tomb Mold have been busy. Hot on the hacked-off heels of stellar debut full-length, ‘Primordial Malignity’,
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SHAMBLES – PRIMITIVE DEATH TRANCE MLP (Blood Harvest)
Although Shambles from Thailand of all places have been making music for 20 years, ‘Primitive Death Trance’ is the first
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ADVERSARIAL / PAROXSIHZEM – WARPIT OF COILING ATROCITIES LP (Iron Bonehead Productions)
In a pitiful era of fad-following, hype-deepthroating dickheads there is simply no accounting for taste. Iron Bonehead released this short
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EMBRACE OF THORNS – SCORN AESTHETICS LP (Iron Bonehead Productions)
Embrace Of Thorns’ fifth full-length is a pummelling maelstrom of Blackened Death Metal that largely eschews variety, embellishment and beautification
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GRAVE UPHEAVAL – (UNTITLED) 2LP (Nuclear War Now!)
More cavernous, atonal, speaker-unfriendly rumbling emanations from the bottomless pit of damnation are the order of the day on Grave
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MYLINGAR – DÖDA DRÖMMAR LP (Amor Fati Productions / Vigor Deconstruct)
Mylingar is a destructive Swedish force delivering punishing, suffocating, chaotic Black / Death carnage in the vein of Portal, Altarage,
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JASSA – INCARNATION OF THE HIGHER GNOSIS LP (Fallen Empire Records)
Due to my ever-diminishing vocabulary and inadequate intellect, I have no idea whatsoever what an incarnation of the higher gnosis
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