INTÖXICATED Issue Official Lyric Video For ‘Sadistic Night’ Track June 13th, 2023 German thrash metal band Intöxicated have released a music video for the track ‘Sex, Violence & Death’, which can be viewed below. Intöxicated issued second full-length studio album Sadistic Nightmares on May 5th, 2023 through MDD Records. Sadistic Nightmares was recorded and produced […]
KARAVANUnholy Mountain Evil Noise Recordings / Vinyltroll (2023)Rating: 8/10 Drenched in fuzz, this Norwegian trio delivers its debut full-length album consisting of seven piles of stoned fluff. Heavy, rolling riffs abound as if they were grey clouds gathering for a storm led by the evil, sneering vocal rasps which drag a blackened metal ethos into […]
UNDULATIONAn Unhealthy Interest In Suffering Self-released (2023)Rating: 8.5/10 Everything about this – band name, logo, cover art and album title – screams murky death metal, and yet this a black metal outfit from Seattle, Washington. Admittedly, some of the vocals drift into deep growls and there are occasional doomier segments, but overall this is a […]
NEMESISFalse Reality Self-released (2023)Rating: 8/10 While the band moniker is rather unoriginal, I suggest you clamp your ears on this fizzing mini-masterpiece of Texan thrash metal from Houston-based Nemesis. In today’s thrash genre there are a lot of same-sounding bands whose only means of attracting listeners are the Ed Repka artwork. Sadly, imitating a scene […]
CLAUSTRUMClaustrum Unorthodox Emanations (2023)Rating: 9/10 When I saw the cover artwork I expected this to be another of those boggy death metal outings dripping with algae and sodden with morbidity. Thankfully, most of this album lives up to my expectations with Italy’s Claustrum serving up a swampy, heavyweight yet catchy as hell album awash with […]
THE BLEEDINGMonokrator Redefining Darkness (2023)Rating: 8/10 This is album number three from volatile London, England-based death thrashers The Bleeding and it’s one that sure as hell leaves its mark. Founded 13 years ago, I’m surprised that the band’s recorded output has been somewhat sporadic, but this new platter savagely rips at the throat of all […]
GODFLESHPurge Avalanche Recordings (2023)Rating: 8/10 These UK experimental industrialists were the first ever band to give me a migraine, and they should take that as a compliment! It was their 1989 debut Streetcleaner which shook my brain as if it were in a blender and ever since then I’ve been a huge fan. Purge is […]
APOCALYPSERetaliation MIMo Sound (2023)Rating: 6/10 Italian multi-instrumentalist Erymanthon Seth has shifted the sound of Apocalypse over the years. What started out as a power metal act with Gothic edges has now transformed into some serious Bathory worship. Retaliation is the sixth full-length studio opus from Apocalypse which now veers heavily towards Bathory circa-Requiem (1994). The […]
WORM ALTARAstral Scourge EP Gurgling Gore (2023)Rating: 8/10 Last year this Portland, Maine-based death metal act released a solid demo, so it’s good to have this one man creation back with a new five-song EP. This time the riffs are more squalid and rank and delivered with a wretched, swampy yet somehow otherworldly groove as […]
THE DEFIANTS Release Third Studio Album ‘Drive’ June 9th, 2023 American melodic hard rock band The Defiants, largely consisting of current and former members of Danger Danger, issued third full-length studio album Drive on June 9th, 2023 through Frontiers Music Srl. Drive was produced by bassist Bruno Ravel, who wrote the album’s tracks alongside frontman […]
