FESTERGOREConstellation Of Endless Blight Personal / Iron Fortress (2024)Rating: 7/10 Once you’ve slipped the sunglasses on to dull down the glow of the orange juice cover you’ll be set for this debut full-length offering from Festergore, another guttural death metal act straight from the sleazy alleyways of Staten Island, New York. Best described as “seriously […]
RITUAL FOGBut Merely Flesh Transcending Obscurity (2024)Rating: 8/10 I’m slightly disappointed that these Memphis, Tennessee-based deathsters have returned with such a short album. At only 30 minutes I have major concerns that this opus will disappear into the mists of time, swallowed by the glut of gloomy bands on the circuit. But anyhow, here we […]
CRYPTORIUMDescent Into Lunacy Personal / Iron Fortress (2024)Rating: 8/10 With a drummer who sounds like he’s beating someone to death with a dustbin lid, Cryptorium are the latest bunch of death metal ghouls to puke forth a debut full-length album. This trio formed just two years ago out of the stinking pits of Sweden’s darkest […]
THE WATCHEROut Of The Dark Cruz Del Sur Music (2024)Rating: 7/10 I can’t remember when I was first introduced to this Boston, Massachusetts-based three piece but it must’ve been just after their 2021 EP, Your Turn To Die, was issued. At the time it was a fleeting meeting that must’ve been so brief that I […]
MUTANKThink Before You Think Boonsdale (2024)Rating: 7/10 A dizzy decade after their 2014 debut album M.E.C.H. Metal, Montreal, Canada-based crossover gang Mutank breaks the silence with a new ten-song full-length platter. It’s impossible to compare the brace of releases due to the distance between them, so in a sense this is Mutank starting afresh with […]
ROTPITLong Live The Rot War Anthem / Selfmadegod (2024)Rating: 8/10 A year after their Let There Be Rot debut full-length album, Swedish/German trio Rotpit slithers from its tomb with an arsenal of 35 minutes of gangrenous slop. When opening track ‘Sewer Rot’ hits I could’ve sworn somebody had filled my speakers with fragments of bone […]
STEEL INFERNORush Of Power From The Vaults (2024)Rating: 8/10 These Copenhagen-based rockers are becoming somewhat veterans of the Danish scene having formed in 2012. Rush Of Power is the fourth full-length album by the band and their second to feature vocalist Chris Rostoff who replaced Karen Christensen. Now, if you haven’t stumbled upon Steel Inferno […]
INVERTED CROSSEternal Flames Of Hell Helldprod (2024)Rating: 6.5/10 Dressed up like some blackened death metal cauldron, Eternal Flames Of Hell is the debut full-length sizzler from rusty and blasphemous Barcelona, Spain-based speedsters Inverted Cross, one of a batch of bands to use this unholy moniker. Adorned in big sunglasses – even on wintry nights – […]
DEMON BITCHMaster Of The Games Gates Of Hell (2024)Rating: 8/10 Entering the world of Detroit, Michigan-based Demon Bitch is something akin to attempting to sidestep a monstrous spider web littered with entangled victims. What looks like chaos before you are in fact wonderfully constructed Gothic labyrinths, only instead of each strand consisting of a silken […]
STENCHEDPurulence Gushing From The Coffin Me Saco Un Ojo / Extremely Rotten Productions (2024)Rating: 7/10 I didn’t think anything could actually gush from a coffin, but here we are gushing with gore for the debut full-length outing from Mexican one-man band Stenched, the brainchild of Monterrey-based musician Adrian. This unhygienic ghoul was responsible last year […]
