Hailing from my own familial home-land, Costa Rica, come Troberoth with their second full length Fallen Angel. An ode to old school thrash and death metal. Showing their attitude and intensity through their music with aggressive riffs, demonic double bass, hellish vocals and a foreboding bass, combined together to create a blasphemous thrash assault. Like…
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Corr Mhóna – Abhainn
After a long seven years, Corr Mhóna have finally released their second full length record, Abhainn, a wonderfully beautiful album based around the mythological and spiritual importance of rivers. Something that is incredibly important in Irish-pagan spirituality as the rivers represent a deep duality of both life and destruction. These guys have captured this duality…
Nihil Invocation – The Attaining Apparition and Night
Hailing from the American underground, Deathwalker brings us Nihil Invocation‘s third full length release The Attaining Apparition and Night. A dark, cold, and hate filled album that shows its aggression in full display. Slow, methodical, and raw, it creeps under your skin and strikes right at you. Each track stays at a the same steady…
Ignoto – Cantos Fúnebres
This one is going to hit or miss for a lot of people who decide to check this out. Ignoto, hailing from Chile, have presented us with their first full length album. Cantos Fúnebres is a strange, strange album, with harsh lo-fi production, amateur riffs filled with fury, and introspective and beautiful folk guitar parts….
Portent – Black Humours & Sour Chasms
Hailing from the UK, Portent brings us their first full length album, coming off the back of a solid demo and EP combo. This release, Black Humours & Sour Chasms follows similarly in the vein of the previous two releases, with manic and twisted guitar riffs accompanied with noisy and mid-paced drums and bestial vocals…
Chaos Over Cosmos – The Ultimate Multiverse
Chaos Over Cosmos is a very unique band with an approach I don’t think I’ve ever really heard before. Only being a two man band, the two members live on different sides of the planet. Hailing from Poland we have Rafal Bowman and Joshua Ratcliff from Australia. They’ve found a way to come together on…
FŌR – The Life Feeding Flame
After a four year hiatus, returning from the underground, the death doom metal band FŌR returns with their first full length release. Crushing those who stand in their way with devastating bass and guitar tones that shake you to your very core. Layered beneath it is the earth rumbling sound of the drums, slow and…
Monte Penumbra – As Blades in the Firmament
Monte Penumbra brings us their second full length album, a densely powerful gnostic album known as as Blades in the Firmament. This is quite the album, an epic proclamation that incorporates many styles and brings a unique approach to the extreme metal sound. To simply label it as ‘blackened death metal’ is much too simple…
Demo Showdown II
Coffin Breath – The Tenebrous Mist Crawling out from the underground, comes a grimy and heavy album. Seeping with the hatred and disgust of humanity comes Coffin Breath a death/doom metal band providing us with their first demo release, The Tenebrous Mist. A disgustingly slow and heavy release, truly making its ugly mark known. First…
Svartmass — Beyond the Veil of Death
Hailing from Havana, Cuba, comes the first release titled Beyond the Veil of Death by Svartmass. A stark reminder of death and a celebration of it. A true dance macabre. It features Conspirator known for his other bands Shrine ov Absurd and Skjult. This time teaming up with another simply known as Antichrist. Together, they…