MAUSOLEUM / ANATOMIA – MAUSOLEUM / ANATOMIA (Behind The Mountain)
Still no sign of a follow-up to Anatomia’s spectacular third full-length, ‘Cranial Obsession’, which was released in 2017, but Japan’s
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Death Metal Reviews
SUFFERING HOUR – THE CYCLIC RECKONING (Profound Lore Records)
On their ominous, multi-textured and tantalisingly-intangible sophomore full-length, ‘The Cyclic Reckoning’, Suffering Hour have crafted an immense offering of destructive
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UPON THE ALTAR – ABSID AB ORDINE LUMINIS (Putrid Cult)
Billowing forth from Lesser Poland with a blistering blitzkrieg of Black / Death Metal, Upon The Altar issue a devastating
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EVAPORATED SORES – ULCEROUS DIMENSIONS LP (Sentient Ruin Laboratories)
It would be no exaggeration to describe Evaporated Sores’ challenging debut full-length as a hideous maelstrom of unforgiving auditory chaos,
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SERAPHIC ENTOMBMENT – QUELLED (Morbid Chapel Records)
A dose of decay and decadence reverberating through the speakers leaving a stench of death and disease lingering in the
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UNDERGANG – ALDRIG I LIVET (Me Saco Un Ojo Records / Dark Descent Records)
From the foulest sewers of Copenhagen arrives Undergang’s compellingly gross and captivating fifth full-length, ‘Aldrig I Livet’. A decade on
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CRYPTAE – NIGHTMARE TRAVERSAL (Sentient Ruin Laboratories)
Swarming, crushing, encircling, suffocating, ‘Nightmare Traversal’ – the demented debut full-length from eccentric Dutch duo Cryptae – presents 30-odd minutes
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SEPTAGE – SEPTIC DECADENCE (Me Saco Un Ojo Records / Extremely Rotten Productions)
Comprising four steaming regurgitations splattered across twelve contagious minutes, ‘Septic Decadence’ is the debut demo EP from sick Danish upstarts
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PNEUMA HAGION – VOIDGAZER (Nuclear War Now! Productions)
An ancient evil is contemptuously unleashed on Pneuma Hagion’s disturbing and devastating debut full-length, ‘Voidgazer’, a nightmarish creation which summons
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OMEGAVORTEX – BLACK ABOMINATION SPAWN (Invictus Productions)
A frenzied, chaotic maelstrom of paranormal Death Metal horror, ‘Black Abomination Spawn’, the debut full-length from Omegavortex, is a visceral,
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BLOODSOAKED NECROVOID – EXPELLED INTO THE UNKNOWN DEPTHS OF THE UNFATHOMABLE (Iron Bonehead Productions)
Costa Rica’s cosmic conspirators Bloodsoaked Necrovoid demonstrated their unnerving, uncanny ability to conjure the most disturbing abyssal blackened Death /
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ATRAMENTUS – STYGIAN (20 Buck Spin)
‘Stygian’, the debut full-length from Atramentus, presents three-quarters-of-an-hour of harrowing, soul-crushing Funeral Doom that will quite literally give you the
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GOREPHILIA – IN THE EYE OF NOTHING (Me Saco Un Ojo Records / Dark Descent Records)
Gorephilia have produced an excellent slab of hulking, fleshy Death Metal on their third full-length, ‘In The Eye Of Nothing’,
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NAPALM DEATH – THROES OF JOY IN THE JAWS OF DEFEATISM (Century Media Records)
A veritable law unto themselves for the best part of 40 years and counting, the pioneering, peerless fathers of grind,
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BOG BODY / PRIMITIVE WARFARE – THE GATE OF GRIEF / UNDULATING TORMENT (Stygian Black Hand)
Unnerving North American two-man units Bog Body and Primitive Warfare corroborate on this magnificent split MLP, presenting half an hour’s
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