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Replicant – Infinite Mortality (Transcending Obscurity)

Formed in 2014 New Jersey based Tech/ Avant-Garde Death Metallers Replicant have gently bubbled along. The name is familiar but I have to confess this is my first delving into their discography. However, being the Brutal Death nerd I am,… Continue Reading →

Corrupter – Descent Into Madness (Godz Ov War)

Ready to be corrupted by death? Of-course you are and providing ‘No Life Here’ at ‘The End Of The Rope’ (to name two tracks) we have mysterious French duo J (bass) and M (guitars, Vocals and drums). Although they lurk… Continue Reading →

Antediluvian – The Divine Punishment (Nuclear War Now! Productions)

Relocated to Austria, Canadian act Antediluvian have a fairly extensive discography with a raft of splits and EPs, but previously only two other full lengths as they land a sonic scourge on the Earth with their third album. If you… Continue Reading →

Altarage – Succumb (Season Of Mist)

I’m sure you know that bit in Hellraiser where Cousin Frank is all hooked up via the face and there’s a pause before his flesh is pulled apart. Well, the words “Jesus Wept” are also a very valid statement here… Continue Reading →

Vircolac – Masque (Sepulchral Voice Records)

I was very taken with the debut EP from this Irish band. Their old school death metal with a large slice of black metal and their own take on how to squeeze melody between the cracks worked well for me,… Continue Reading →

Altarage – The Approaching Roar (Season Of Mist)

Those strange nameless figures have emerged from their dungeon prisons to mount their skeletal steeds and gallop spreading terror across the lands of The Basque Country once more. Nope we are not talking about The Blind Dead although did you… Continue Reading →

P.H.O.B.O.S – Phlogiston Catharsis (Transcending Obscurity)

My only previous encounter with French industrial death/doom outfit P.H.O.B.O.S was their Triunity split with Blut Aus Nord a few years back, which should at least give you an idea about the kind of headfuck you’re going to encounter here…. Continue Reading →

Eskhaton – Omegalitheos (Lavadome)

Ah, ok. Well first this is a super bit of packaging; excellent cover art and real attention to the internal art/layout too which is a) always nice to see and b) a good sign of intent. If like me you… Continue Reading →

Slidhr – The Futile Fires Of Man (Van Records)

One man projects in the Metal world may not be uncommon but they have always intrigued me. The sense of isolation from an individual, the thought that only a single solitary person has the willingness, desire and drive to create… Continue Reading →

Gateway – Boundless Torture (Pulverised)

Ok I had never heard Gateway before this, a one man band from Belgian Robin Van Oyen, but it had sat on the review list for a week so I thought “Hey, give it a go.. bit of doom death,… Continue Reading →

Vomitor – Pestilent Death (Hell’s Headbangers)

Ah, Vomitor, Aussies with all the natural subtlety and reserve of their countrymen removed. And of course we wouldn’t have it any other way. Pestilent Death is their fourth full length but it’s been around six years since The Escalation,… Continue Reading →

Paganizer – Land Of Weeping Souls (Transcending Obscurity Records)

You can be as fancy and as hi-tech as you like but after fannying around with the latest fads, in the end you’ll go back to what you know. In a past life the Remmington 870 was my shotgun of… Continue Reading →

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