Tag: tech death

  • Hellbound Interviews : GUTVOID – June 2023

    Hellbound Interviews : GUTVOID – June 2023

    Tell us about the formation of GUTVOID in 2019. What brought you together? Sometime in 2018 Dan and myself (Brendan) were driving on Lake Shore and he was showing me some of the newer music he’d been listening to at the time – which included Krypts, Spectral Voice and Mortiferum.  I’d fallen out of death…

  • Cryptopsy – The Book of Suffering (Tome 1)

    Cryptopsy – The Book of Suffering (Tome 1)

    Say your piece, objectors: yes, Lord Worm is still out of the band, which leaves Flo Mounier as the only original member, and he’s the drummer to boot; yes, their undisputed classic, None So Vile, is twenty years old; yes, they chased trendy deathcore and ran their name into the ground in 2008 with The…

  • The Apex – S/T

    The Apex – S/T

    Straight from banks of the filthy-as-fuck Detroit River, Windsor, Ontario, four piece THE APEX bring a raw technical death attack on a Meshuggah/Dillinger Escape Plan tip to their brief but uncompromisingly brutal debut CD. Years of hard-earned road experience via past/present member tenures in CLOSED CASKET FUNERAL and CORRUPTED LEADERS (among numerous others) playing alongside…

  • Origin – Omnipresent

    Origin – Omnipresent

    The music of tech deathers Origin produces either a smile or a grimace. Outer space themed! Insanely fast! Insanely technical!…but also a blender of sound and a stagnant end point close to frigid techno. Really, resembling a computer blurp isn’t something everyone aspires to (or wants to listen to). 2008’s Antithesis changed the narrative by…

  • Artificial Brain – Labyrinth Constellation

    Artificial Brain – Labyrinth Constellation

    By Matt Hinch A few things are required for assembling an Artificial Brain: extremely talented musicians, super-technical riffs, complicated song arrangements, Colin Marston production, terrifying extra-terrestrial battle artwork by Paulo Girardi, and a release on Profound Lore. Fitting all those pieces together results in this New York tech-death band and their debut full-length, Labyrinth Constellation.…

  • RIFFS NOT RIOTS @ Fortune Sound Club, Vancouver BC, July 13, 2011

    “While the Stanley Cup Riot of 2011 will be neither forgiven nor forgotten any time soon, it was heartening to see Vancouver’s metal scene step up and do their part to help soothe some of the sting the city’s been feeling since that night. I also got my eyes opened – there are a lot…

  • Obscura – Omnivium

    One believes that what makes Omnivium a successful album is that it is willing to take chances, whether it be playing a slower, more intricate melodic passage when the listener is expecting a battering ram riff, or indoctrinating your ears with further gravity blast bliss and shredding guitar when the average human’s arms and headbanging…

  • Fear Factory – Mechanize

    It’s not clear at this point whether this new offering has enough unique staying power to ensure that, once the dust of its release has settled, its cuts will stand out from the rest of the band’s music. It’s a great listen for the first few times, but then it begins to feel a little…

  • The Cleansing: Poisoned Legacy

    Poisoned Legacy is a fine addition to the Danish death metal corpus (mortale…apologies for the horrid pun). It is well-performed musically and quite enjoyable in short bursts, but it lacks the consistently dynamic songwriting required to hold the attention for its duration.

  • Augury: Fragmentary Evidence

    Montreal’s Augury is describable as Canadian Progressive Death Metal. This band manages to keep the listener’s interest throughout the whole album delivering fresh melodic tunes on their second full length cd Fragmentary Evidence.