PURTENANCE: Member Of Immortal Damnation Release year: 1992/2021Label: Drowned Productions/Xtreem Music The names of the old Finnish death metal scene are numerous and illustrious, many of those early bands having carved their mark into the tombstones and fleshly remains of … Continue reading Re-release of immortal damnation
OLDSKULL: Nether Hollow Of No Return Release year: 2021Label: Inhuman Assault Productions Once again I find myself asking, what’s in a name? This group from Thailand have chosen a name that sounds mostly like the name of some goofy villain … Continue reading Nether hollows and old skulls
ANCIENT MALIGNITY: Ancient Malignity Release year: 2020Label: Inhuman Assault Productions Yeah, I know, I know: complaining about the production values and sound of an underground extreme metal band is pointless most of the time. And even when it isn’t, there’s … Continue reading Barbaric attack cult
NEXWOMB: Exegesis Of Nihility Release year: 2019/2020Label: Nihilistic Noise Propaganda/Morbid Chapel Records Originally released on tape by Nihilistic Noise Propaganda in 2019 and on CD the following year by Morbid Chapel, Exegesis Of Nihilty is the debut album by US … Continue reading Nexwomb’s explanations of nothingness
ALTAR OF GORE: Obscure & Obscene Gods Release year: 2020Label: Nameless Grave Records With a cover like this, you know what you’re getting. That’s right: death metal. And of a certain kind, too. Not brutal, progressive or technical death metal. … Continue reading Altars of obscure & obscene gods
SANGUISUGABOGG: Tortured Whole Release year: 2021Label: Century Media From the starting sounds of Sanguisugabogg’s debut album, Tortured Whole, it’s obvious what’s on offer. Commencing with an almost pig-like guttural growl, it’s clear that this is death metal of the brutal … Continue reading Tortured whole by Sanguisugabogg
BLASPHEMATORY: Depths Of The Obscurity Release year: 2019/2020Label: Nihil Verum Nisi Mors/Nuclear Winter Records US duo Blasphematory certainly don’t aim low; in the promo sheet, they invoke the names of such gloomy luminaries of ancient Finnish death metal murk as … Continue reading Blasphematorial depths of obscurity
PANDEMMY: Subversive Need Release year: 2021Label: Big Bad Wolf Records/Headbangerz Records What’s in a name, eh? Obviously, the name of an artist will most often be the first impression the potential listener gets, and as such, the wrong name might … Continue reading Pandemmy for pandummies
TENEBRO: Liberaci Dal Male Release year: 2020/2021Label: Dismal Fate Records/Xtreem Music Italy has a long history of gruesome and macabre horror movies. The giallos of Dario Argento, the blood-drenched horror of Lucio Fulci and the notorious Cannibal Holocaust by Ruggero … Continue reading The crude death of Tenebro
FROZEN SOUL: Crypt Of Ice Release year: 2021Label: Century Media Ever since seminal UK death metal group Bolt Thrower threw in the bolt, I mean the towel, in 2016, their absence has been felt. Of course, already since before they … Continue reading Crypt of frozen souls
