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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Death Metal Reviews
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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ABATUAR – MORTANDAD (Dunkelheit Produktionen)
Telling tall, terrible tales of necromantic rituals, death reverence and frenzied bloodletting, Abatuar’s sophomore full-length presents almost half an hour
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MALICIOUS – DERANGED HEXES (Invictus Productions)
‘Deranged Hexes’, the debut full-length from Malicious, is a short, sharp shock of barbaric, uncompromising Black / Death Metal, eight
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FACELESS BURIAL – SPECIATION (Dark Descent Records / Me Saco Un Ojo Records)
Australian trio Faceless Burial go back to the future again for their sophomore full-length, ‘Speciation’, which is deeply rooted in
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SIEGE COLUMN – DARKSIDE LEGIONS (Nuclear War Now! Productions)
When Death Metal first reared its ugly head, the air was filled with the stench of filth and grime …
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IMPURE – SATAN’S ECLIPSE LP (Chaos Records)
Comprising fiends assuming the glorious pseudonyms Horned Father of Desecreation (vocals, drums) and Satyrannical Lord of Assault (handling guitar and
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BLACK CURSE – ENDLESS WOUND LP (Sepulchral Voice Records)
Black Curse’s debut full-length is an unmercifully violent onslaught of punishing extremity, where chaos and utter savagery are accompanied by
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