TOXIKDis Morta Massacre (2022)Rating: 9/10 Those Toxik teaser EPs just a few years ago and subsequent singles did enough to get the tech-thrash fans salivating once again, although I have to admit to having been a tad nervous when hearing that a new full-length was to come. Toxik has always been one of my favourite […]

AT THE GATES Release New Animated Music Video For ‘Garden Of Cyrus’ Track August 4th, 2022 Gothenburg, Sweden-based melodic death metal band At The Gates have released an animated music video for the track ‘Garden Of Cyrus’. Created by Costin Chioreanu (Twilight 13 Media), the clip can be viewed below. Speaking about the song and […]

HAMARR Sapience In Anguish (2022) Celestial chugging is very much on the agenda for this new American death metal act from Indiana that gives off a strong Swedish vibe in some of its tone. Sapience In Anguish is the debut offering from this three-piece, consisting of five tracks with a total duration of just under […]

PRETERISTBlood Moon Rising Self-released (2022)Rating: 8.5/10 Preterist is the solo project of Finland-based musician Simon J. Kok (vocals, drums and keyboards), who is joined on this debut opus by Carl Johan Grimmark (guitar, Narnia) and Egon Veevo (bass). Blood Moon Rising is a rather engaging record of varying flavours as progressive elements flirt with traditional […]

NECROTUMUndead Symbiosis Self-released (2022)Rating: 8.5/10 Due to the amount of singles, demos and EPs Romanian deathsters Necrotum has released it feels as if this trio has been around far longer than three years. It’s even more staggering when you consider that Undead Symbiosis is their second full-length album. Undead Symbiosis is an excellent example of […]

FLESHROTUnburied Corpse Me Saco un Ojo / Desert Wasteland (2022)Rating: 9/10 Trudging from the swampy grave like a lumbering, squalid ogre, Texas death metallers Fleshrot unleashes its sickly debut album; a wretched, decaying pile of steaming limbs heaped to feed the rising, smouldering dead. Unburied Corpse is the fetid monstrosity I was hoping for, a […]

MORTAL SCREAMUnholy Blasphemy EP Bali Headbanger Music (2022)Rating: 5.5/10 In 1996 Indonesian death metal act Mortal Scream issued its debut self-titled demo. It showed promise and was succeeded by 1997’s Perennial Remains demo and then the following year Demo Tape ’98. The band continued to perform live in their homeland, but then in 2007 they […]