Tag: death metal

  • Bone Gnawer: Feast Of Flesh

    For me, anything that Massacre/Denial Fiend vocalist Kam Lee is involved with gets me excited and I am very happy to report that this new Bone Gnawer project is no exception. In fact, it is possibly some of his finest work.

  • Man Must Die: No Tolerance For Imperfection

    This third full length album from Glasgow, Scotland’s Man Must Die is an amazing listen from start to finish.

  • Thornafire: Vorex Deconstrucción

    Hailing from Santiago, Chile, Thornafire have offered up a slab of death metal that has some very impressive moments but that mostly comes off as being fairly monotonous.

  • Chaos Synopsis: Kvlt Of Dementia

    Chaos Synopsis is a Brazilian based thrash/death metal band that has recently released their first full length album. They play a highly intensive, brutal, aggressive and fast style of metal that is very similar to early Slayer.

  • Vanmakt: Ad Luciferi Regnum

    With the rise of the blackened death metal sound, this record is a pleasant surprise. These Swedes make it evident that their creativity as a whole was expressed with much ease.

  • God Dethroned: Passiondale

    The key to decoding the motivations behind God Dethroned’s latest album is its title: Passiondale is a concept album about a small site of tremendous struggle in World War One. Unsurprisingly, the subject matter works with the death metal ferocity running through most of the record

  • Dying Fetus: Descend Into Depravity

    The breakdowns are so damn catchy I turned a baseball cap sideways and slammed danced by myself, right into a wall. My cat looked at me funny.

  • Axis Powers: Marching Towards Destruction

    Forget concept albums…..have you heard of concept bands? Sweden’s Axis Powers (whom I assume took their name from the military alliance of countries that formed in 1940….Hitler-run Germany being one of the strongest members….which if correct doesn’t sit with me that well) has dedicated themselves and their album “Marching Towards Destruction” to war.

  • Viatrophy: s/t

    The debut album from England’s Viatrophy offers an enjoyable collection of melodic death metal tracks that only get better as things progress.

  • Divine Heresy: Bringer of Plagues

    For all the hype it received in 2007, Divine Heresy’s debut Bleed the Fifth was a major disappointment. Somewhere along the way, though, band leader Dino Cazares righted the ship, for the follow-up Bringer of Plagues turns out to be one of the more pleasant surprises of the summer. Adrien Begrand reviews the new sophomore…