Tag 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 →
Space, science fiction, the farthest realms of all speculation and idea of the future; the most weird and wonderful ideas of the future and survival of the known universe. Those, among many other topics of creativity have been present in… Continue Reading →
Spanish outfit Eternal Storm are back again with the follow up to their highly rated debut album ‘Come The Tide’. Their offering of Melodic Death Metal with progressive leanings blew me away and in anticipation of this release, I revisited… Continue Reading →
Brisbane is not the first place you think of for filthy gnarly, sludgy Death Metal. I was there in the mid 90’s and I just remember the fake beach on Australia day, extreme humidity and a lot of Hahn Ice… Continue Reading →
The prolific Transcending Obscurity label is a byword for death metal productions, and here’s another one, this time by Saevus Finis from Portugal. The points of reference for this “chest-bursting heaviness” and “dark, hypnotic and suffocating death metal’ are bands… Continue Reading →
It’s a cold, grim and rainy day. What I need to perk things right up is some Swedish Grindcore with a dirty dose of death metal added. Lurching into life in 2017 this is the third release and second full length effort from the… Continue Reading →
Dwelling Below. A band so obscure that they don’t have an entry on Metal Archives. . However the drummer/vocalist Jared Moran appears to currently be in every flipping death metal band in the US (though this one not listed…) and… Continue Reading →
Dyssebeia in Greek Mythology was the spirit and personification of Impiety, the term which defines sacrilege. Notably, it was called upon by the Olympian goddess Hera to punish Heracles when she was rather pissed off at Zeus because he was… Continue Reading →
Plymouth’s finest return with this their fourth album as well as having one of the finest band names in heavy metal, this album has come skidding into my inbox with a trunk full of hope and a tank full of… Continue Reading →
Dirty dirty dirty! Bad dog on your bed! This is pretty filthy stuff from Transcending Obscurity – as one would expect. Though the bands moniker sounds like a knock off Minecraft Rather than block combining and mad youtubers what you get is half an hour of gnarly deathgrind from Germany…. Continue Reading →
There are innumerable bands with the name Thorn and not just in the metal scene as this solo project, fronted by Brennen Westermeyer, hails from Arizona in the USA. For a band that has only been around since 2020 he… Continue Reading →
Dispensing a brutal form of technical death metal, this is the experienced German band’s fourth full album release. Fire and brimstone are guaranteed. There’s no surprise element here – it’s as advertised so heavy, hard, brutal and technical. It’s the… Continue Reading →