THE SILENT RAGE Share Music Video For ‘Crows Fly Back’ Track December 29th, 2023 Greek power metal band The Silent Rage have filmed a music video for the track ‘Crows Fly Back’. Directed by Christos Doulgerakis, the clip can be viewed below. The Silent Rage issued second full-length studio album Nuances Of Life on May […]
ANARCHŸEyeclöser Self-released (2023)Rating: 7.5/10 These St. Louis, Missouri-based thrashers decided to see out the year with an album that cannot help but worship Vektör, and that’s something I find troubling. It’s a strange world whereby bands feel the need to ape other bands which have not so long ago departed the scene. Anyway, that’s the […]
SOLITARY SABREDTemple Of The Serpent Vinyl Store (2023)Rating: 9/10 Armed with swords and clad in monster-proof armour, Cypriot clan Solitary Sabred embarks upon its fourth journey into a land dripping with mysticism and riddled with strange creatures and deceitful foes. This is as epic and as swashbuckling as it gets in regards to heavy metal; […]
REVULSEDCerebral Contamination Everlasting Spew (2023)Rating: 8/10 In 2015 Australian brutal death metallers Revulsed caused quite a stir with their debut platter Infernal Atrocity, but since then only a live album and a smattering of singles have emerged. Imagine my surprise then when Cerebral Contamination hit me, seemingly out of the blue, like a concrete slab […]
FERAL FORMSPremalignant EP Night Terrors / Filth Junkies (2023)Rating: 8/10 Do you remember that strange banging noise you heard in your pipes recently? What about the weird clanking cacophony from underneath the bathtub? Well, such sounds have been a warning because now is the time for Italian band Feral Forms to rise from their sewer […]
CRYPTWORMOozing Radioactive Vomition Me Saco Un Ojo / Pulverised / Extremely Rotten (2023)Rating: 7/10 If there is one album you want to end 2023 with then make sure it’s Oozing Radioactive Vomition, if only to rid the season of festive joy and replace it with sewage. Bristol, England-based death metallers Cryptworm are back bubbling from […]
BUNKER 66Portraits Of Dismay Dying Victims Productions (2023)Rating: 8/10 It’s not often that I review compilation albums but this one is essential. With cover art that nods towards Sodom’s classic 1986 release Obsessed By Cruelty, Portraits Of Dismay is the work of prolific Italian black / speed metal act Bunker 66, a torrent of a […]
AXE CRAZYCreatures On The Hunt Crazy (2023)Rating: 8/10 Considering they formed in 2010, Polish headbangers Axe Crazy has been overlooked somewhat. Creatures On The Hunt is the third full-length outing from the band which features a current line-up of Stanley Cioska (lead vocals), Adrian Bigos (lead vocals and guitar), Robson Bigos (guitar and backing vocals), […]
WITCHSNAKEDeathcult Of The Snake Helter Skelter Productions (2023)Rating: 6.5/10 There seems to be a rule whereby a majority of doom / sludge / occult bands have to use the words “witch”, “snake” and, more annoyingly, “wizard” into their moniker or album title. Here is another band of such ilk, being Milan. Italy-based stoners Witchsnake (not […]
HORRIFIERHorrid Resurrection Personal / Duplicate (2023)Rating: 8/10 The bowels of Norway have once again ruptured and from such an eruption Horrifier has emerged. This smouldering mouldy debut full-length is a manky melting pot of Autopsy, Asphyx – particularly the gasping vocal traits – and classic Death Strike. The rotten rhythms have that filthy, downtrodden quality […]
