One of the most promising developments in American black metal in recent years, SEVER combine bestial ferocity with spectral atmosphere and surprisingly deft dynamics. The work of one Ma-Kaxul, SEVER made their public debut with the Sadistic Sorcery demo in 2022, courtesy of IRON BONEHEAD. That demo indeed pointed the way for SEVER’s sound: at […]
Since forming in 2019, Texas Fleshrot have accumulated a steady fanbase with their rancid blend of slowly chugging Death Metal. With a demo, split and single under their belts, it is time for their debut album to finally crush the skulls of the collective underground. With an immediately gripping assault of hammering, chunky bass, putrescent […]
A festering entity (de)composed of dwellers from the Viennese underworld. Let their ri -laden, rotten death metal lead you on a pilgrimage into the furthest corridors of morbidity. Metalstorms Review (metalstorm.net) about Prigrims of Morbidity: ´This release is irresistibly repugnant; it is dripping all sorts of revolting liquids, and you can bet your ass that […]
Two years ago, “Ferocious Blasphemic Warfare”, the debut of the hitherto unknown WOLVES OF PERDITION, hit the scene like a mortar shell. There was an astonishing consensus about the quality and explosive power of this projectile that came out of the blue – Metal.de: 10/10; Time For Metal: 9/10; Stormbringer: 4,5/5; Zephyr’s Odem: 8,9/10 and […]
GRAFVITNIR require no introduction. Since their fiery birth in 2007 and successive NâHásh debut album in 2009, this still-mysterious Swedish formation have dependably – and provocatively – stoked the fires of ancient black metal, becoming veritable royalty by the end of the decade. From that fiery beginning, GRAFVITNIR’s aesthetic has been firm and unyielding: exquisitely […]
GRAFVITNIR require no introduction. Since their fiery birth in 2007 and successive NâHásh debut album in 2009, this still-mysterious Swedish formation have dependably – and provocatively – stoked the fires of ancient black metal, becoming veritable royalty by the end of the decade. From that fiery beginning, GRAFVITNIR’s aesthetic has been firm and unyielding: exquisitely […]
MOON INCARNATE are a new band of old souls, forged with single-minded focus. The band features the duo of Christian Kolf (Valborg) and Matin Vasari (Beyondition), who together wrote, recorded, and produced their debut album over the course of two years in their hometown of Bonn, Germany, with Peter Scartabello (Sky Shadow Obelisk) recording his […]
It’s been five long years since RITUALIZATION’s widely acclaimed debut album for IRON BONEHEAD, Sacraments to the Sons of the Abyss. While most of the lineup has stayed intact, new vocalist/bassist Daethorn arrives from Merrimack, who’s very much a fellow French underground veteran like his bandmates. Together, the quintet deliver a three-song firestorm of epic […]
Brazils rebellious death metallers REBAELLIUN re-emerge with their first album in seven years, third in this millennium and fourth since the bands formation in 1998. “Under The Sign Of Rebellion” is a death metal manifest of anger and defiance, rage and resistance, sparked by the falsehood and corruption that have plagued Brazil in recent years. […]
“Infamous metal pirates ALESTORM return with another batch of mischief on their new EP, entitled Voyage of the Dead Marauder, out March 22, 2023 via Napalm Records. The EP arrives as the successor to their epic seventh studio album, Seventh Run of a Seventh Rum, which peaked at #7 on the German Album charts and […]
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