UNCLE ACID & THE DEADBEATSNell’ Ora Blu Rise Above (2024)Rating: 9/10 Continuing their strange journey, Uncle Acid & The Deadbeats still prompt me to sort through my 60s and 70s VHS horror selection, only this time drawing my attention to the giallo genre via Italian master Dario Argento. With this, the Cambridge, England-based band’s sixth […]
SARCOUGHAGUSRemnants EP Rotted Life (2024)Rating: 6/10 I was in praise of the debut full-length album, Delusions Of The Sick (2021), from Cleveland, Ohio-based act Sarcoughagus, so I’m glad they are back. The message is still the same, death metal, now bolstered further with the addition of drummer Ray Conde, who joined in 2022. While the […]
SIX FEET UNDERKilling For Revenge Metal Blade (2024)Rating: 4/10 Six Feet Under just cannot catch a break and over the span of their career they have become somewhat the Nickelback of the death metal genre. Every time the guys release an album I almost feel sorry for them because there always seems to be a […]
NECROPHAGIAMoribundis Grim Time To Kill (2024)Rating: 5.5/10 I honestly don’t know how I feel about a posthumous Necrophagia opus. The album is basically haunted by the last vocal recordings of founder Killjoy (who passed away in March 2018), the result being a somewhat patchy affair littered with rough but certainly not ready demo recordings where […]
VATICINAL RITESCascading Memories Of Immortality Everlasting Spew (2024)Rating: 8/10 After a solid start in 2021 with their self-titled debut EP, London, England-based death metal throng Vaticinal Rites finally embarks on a full-length. Of all the UK acts within the genre doing the rounds these guys are one of the more overlooked, but after giving this […]
DESOLUSSystem Shock Hells Headbangers (2024)Rating: 7.5/10 Washington D.C.-based thrashers Desolus finally breaks out its debut full-length album, five years after forming. The trio of Jimmy Frost (guitar and vocals), Vivek Rangarajan (bass and vocals) and Travis Stone (drums) come donned in the 80s serious thrash look and the music matches. Forget cartoon tomfoolery, Desolus crank […]
LŸNXClaws Out Bullzhorn (2024)Rating: 7/10 The look and feel of this debut full-length album just screams late 80s sleaze metal and the sound here very much pays homage to the halcyon days of smudged eyeliner, scratchy vocals and Sunset Strip fantasies but with an occasional contemporary gloss. It’s generic but fun as the feisty Calgary, […]
GRAVE GHOULThe House Of Dead Flesh EP Dismal Fate (2024)Rating: 7/10 Ryan Wills (Blood Rage / Seven Doors / Bludgeoned Beyond Reason) is turning into a one man death metal machine. His creative juices continue to flow with this, the second EP from his gore-crusted Grave Ghoul project. After last year’s Living Burial Ground, Wills […]
FEEL THE KNIFESo Raw…So Nasty…So Hideous Shocker (2024)Rating: 7.5/10 Buenos Aires, Argentina-based thrashers Feel The Knife just might be responsible for my favourite album so far this year. I assume the band’s moniker is influenced by the Exciter song of the same name as they plough their way through 36 minutes of raging metal. After […]
ACID VATDead Flesh Architect EP Iron Fortress (2024)Rating: 7/10 If you’re wondering what that new foul stench is that’s suddenly started to erupt from your sink, it’s the debut outing from another rotten UK death metal band. Acid Vat slithers around in the darkest corners of Stockport and is the mutated creation of Jordan Sheffield […]
