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I’m sitting here at the end of the garden on a misty, damp, grey looking morning pontificating on starting this review and wondering why I put my hand up for it. I know exactly why and it’s not a hard… Continue Reading →
Having only formed in 2020 this international act comprising band members hailing from the USA, Canada and Mexico has a spate of releases out, predominantly singles but also one EP before this bludgeoning full length. You could probably guess the… Continue Reading →
Manchester or Slamchester as it is known in slam death circles saw the arrival of Ingested in about 2006 and since then they have churned out a number of fine death metal albums and in some respects spearheaded the whole… Continue Reading →
Slam inspired brutal death metal newcomers Voluntary Mortification hail from Lansing, Michigan and seek to deliver some hope for the hopeless through their gargantuan sized riffs. Whilst people might associate slam with silliness and people walking round in circles, swinging… Continue Reading →
Four tracks of blended deathcore and death metal from Spanish act Wasting The Genesis who already have an EP and full length available. There is nothing here that makes you think WTG are different to a wealth of other deathcore… Continue Reading →
Fit For An Autopsy, are one of those bands that, for me, have been lumped in with what seems like a plethora of cookie cutter bands, bubbling away in the stew that is the Deathcore scene. All syncopated double bass… Continue Reading →
While this may be their 8th album, this is my first encounter with the American quartet. Might have something to do with the fact that I’ve never really delved much into deathcore, but here we go now, and while there… Continue Reading →
Héboïdophrénie is a form of schizophrenia part of psychoses in psychopathic expression and is one of those band names that you can imagine came well before they had written any music. “Let us think of something dark, dingy and mental… Continue Reading →
This was my fourth gig of 2020 and I doubt that there’ll be many touring packages that will be as brutal as this five band rampage that laid Leeds academia to waste. Transferring from the cold brisk night to the… Continue Reading →
This is a strange one and I tell you why. It’s strange because there is much mumbling, tutting, sideways looks, eye rolling, slagging off, looking down at etc. etc. of the genre known as Deathcore. What is Deathcore may you… Continue Reading →
I have a strange relationship with Deathcore, a lot of bands from this genre merely came across to me as cheap Death Metal, and in fact most still do. Nevertheless Whitechapel appeared to me as something else, and for a… Continue Reading →
As the festival season draws to a close for many this quadruple American assault spanning four genres was nothing short of aural Armageddon as every band was apocalyptic in the delivery of their music that began with the blasphemic annihilation… Continue Reading →