GHETTO GHOULSVigilante Crusaders Screaming Skull (2024)Rating: 7/10 What do the 1980s movies The Exterminator, Ms .45 (Angel Of Vengeance), and Savage Streets have in common? Well, artistic versions of the main protagonists in those movies feature on the cover of this debut full-length platter from Norway thrashers Ghetto Ghouls. Vigilante Crusadors is a riotous affair […]

MAULIn The Jaws Of Bereavement 20 Buck Spin (2024)Rating: 4.5/10 I’m not sure if I’m imagining things but the second, highly anticipated full-length Maul opus is like a mix of dogshit deathcore and latter day Six Feet Under. Since the beginning of their career these Fargo, North Dakota-based deathheads have always had the potential to […]

BLOOD INCANTATIONAbsolute Elsewhere Century Media (2024)Rating: 8.5/10 Continuing to baffle and astound, Denver, Colorado-based death metal experimentalists Blood Incantation reach further into the unknown with their first full-length album in five years. The first time I listened to this opus I wanted to immediately rename the band Blood Floyd, such are the cosmic variations and […]