DECEASEDChildren Of The Morgue Hells Headbangers (2024)Rating: 8.5/10 Forty years after their formation, Virginian mob Deceased – still led by maniac Kingsley “King” Fowley – unveils its 11th full-length studio offering and it’s arguably one of the band’s finest moments. Complete with unusual cover art courtesy of Desmond Root Ambrose, this album rewards you with […]
PHAËTHONWielder Of The Steel Gates Of Hell (2024)Rating: 6/10 The hills are alive with the sound of metal music as fully-armoured London, England-based combo Phaëthon thump their chest, hold aloft their swords and bark commands across the valleys of fog and fern. Phaëthon mainman S. Vrath (vocals and guitar) is a bit of an acquired […]
MORTALAs Life Leaves The Body Self-released (2024)Rating: 8/10 San Jose in California has just gotten noisier due to the arrival of death metal quartet Mortal. The crude cover art depicting a woman being dragged into the grave while hooded and faceless beings look on is quite the spectacle. If you want a good example of […]
VOMITROTEmetic Imprecations EP Personal (2024)Rating: 8/10 After the gloriously ghoulish 2022 debut album Rotten Vomit, Swedish trolls Vomitrot spew out their next assignment with a six-song EP, Emetic Imprecations. This latest release may be just twenty-five minutes in length, but once you claw your way into the putrid folds of tracks like ‘Emptophilic Cro-Magnon’ and […]
ARISEExquisite Rotten Feast Self-released (2024)Rating: 6/10 Keeping things relatively simple yet aggressive is El Salvador combo Arise, one of at least a dozen acts with that particular moniker. The band formed in 2021 and feature Edson Alvarado (guitar and vocals), Mauricio Cubias (bass and vocals), Ernesto Cruz (guitar) and Diego Flamenco (drums). Exquisite Rotten Feast […]
CHAINED SAINTBlindside Patriark (2024)Rating: 8/10 Here’s a young Floridian foursome of Sean Sterling (vocals), Ethan Kahn (guitar), Sebastian de Avila (bass) and Cameron Cottrell (drums), who have just released their debut full-length album, Blindside. Formed two years ago, Chained Saint is a teenage thrash combo bursting with raw energy as they dish out serrated and […]
NILEThe Underworld Awaits Us All Napalm (2024)Rating: 8.5/10 When Greenville, South Carolina-based death metal band Nile crept onto the scene in 1994 with their self-titled demo, little did we realise that four years later the combo would release one of the greatest modern death metal records in the form of 1998’s Amongst The Catacombs Of […]
SELF ABSORBEDNot For You EP Self-released (2024)Rating: 7/10 I’ve not been aware of this Lansing, Michigan-based duo before. Dee Vicious (vocals and guitar) and Pat Wiliams (guitar, bass, drums and vocals) released a self-titled demo in 2022 and another, Silence For Recognition, last year which featured a cover of the D.R.I. song ‘Thrashard’. This new […]
TÜNDRATündra EP Self-released (2024)Rating: 6.5/10 Tündra is a relatively new Cleveland, Ohio-based combo that dabbles in power metal, although due to poor production there’s a lack of punch on this debut EP. Even so, this three-song release rumbles like some early-to-mid 80s traditional metal import laced with New Wave Of British Heavy Metal grit. Vocalist […]
BLIND MONARCHThe Dead Replenish The Earth Dry Cough / Heavenly Vault / minoRobscuR (2024)Rating: 8.5/10 Five years after their colossal What Is Imposed Must Be Endured debut album, Sheffield doom sluggers Blind Monarch ooze from the cracks of South Yorkshire with another gruelling slab of sludge. Four gargantuan cuts and a total duration of 43 […]
