SUN DESCENDS BLACK: EP I Release year: 2019Label: self-released Some years ago, the chaotic, grinding black metal pioneered by the likes of Blasphemy already in the late 80’s/early 90’s, was all the rage, and bands drinking from that particular stream … Continue reading Grinding maelstroms of Sun Descends Black
VADER: Welcome To The Morbid Reich Release year: 2011Label: Nuclear Blast From their primitively death-thrashing roots, during the 90’s Polish Vader evolved to a veritable death metal machine, who’ve churned out extremely tightly played albums at a steady rate to … Continue reading A return to Vader’s Reich
DAEMONIAC: Dwellers Of Apocalypse Release year: 2019Label: Xtreem Records As everyone into death metal knows, Sweden was one of the countries to stake a major claim early on, and one of the earliest scenes to create their own trademark sound. … Continue reading Daemoniac dwelling in Swedish apocalypse
VADER: Necropolis Release year: 2009Label: Nuclear Blast Taking another jump of almost a decade, we’re moving from 2000’s Litany on to Polish Vader’s 2009 album Necropolis, their 9th full-length album (not counting XXV, which consisted entirely of re-recorded songs). As … Continue reading Vader’s city of the dead
VADER: Litany Release year: 2000Label: Metal Blade Records From the demo collection Reborn In Chaos (our review here), we’re jumping some ten years ahead and on to Litany, Polish death metal machine Vader’s 2000 album, which is a good representative … Continue reading The litanies of Vader
CRYPTIVORE: Unseen Divinity Release year: 2017/2019Label: Vaginal Autopsy Records/Dawning Septic Productions Formed back in 2015, the mission of Australian one-man project Cryptivore is to bring back the early 90’s deathgrind vibe, combining Swedish death metal to good old early grindcore. … Continue reading Back to the grind with Cryptivore
VADER: Reborn In Chaos Release year: 1996/2004Label: Karmageddon Media Released by a variety of labels on a variety of formats throughout the years, Reborn In Chaos has been a constant presence in Polish Vader’s career. Compiling together two demos, Necrolust … Continue reading Vader’s primordial chaos
PUTRID DEFECATION: Bowels Of Hell Release year: 2019Label: Stadin Rec Slam is one of those subgenres of death metal which is hard to take seriously at least on face value. In striving to go for the goriest, most disgusting imagery … Continue reading Slam to the speed of Leslie Nielsen
UNANIMATED: Ancient God Of Evil Release year: 1995/2008Label: No Fashion Records/Regain Records As is well-known, and has been established even on this site a number of times, Sweden in the 90’s was a true hotbed for death metal. Unanimated, formed … Continue reading The ancient evils of Unanimated
V/A: Brutal Africa – The Heavy Metal Cowboys Of Botswana Release year: 2019Label: Svart Records Back when I started getting into metal, in the mid-90’s, there were a great deal of exotic places metal music could come from. With the … Continue reading With brutality from Botswana
Only Death Is Real 