TOMB MOLD: The Bottomless Perdition + The Moulting Release year: 2017Label: Blood Harvest If Tomb Mold’s debut, Primordial Malignity (which we reviewed here), reminds one of a mixture of the guttural catacombs of Pillard-era Incantation and the demented strangeness of … Continue reading The moulting of Tomb Mold
If you’ve been following the death metal underground at all during the past decade, you’re bound to have run into the name Undergang more than a few times – the Danish rotheads have been carving a well-established niché for them … Continue reading Undergang rotting in the state of Denmark
CEMETARY: An Evil Shade Of Grey Release year: 1992Label: Black Mark Productions In the early 90’s, Sweden was a veritable treasure trove of death metal. Not only were there an abundance of groups coming from Sweden, there was also a … Continue reading Cemetary’s gothic shade of death
VORUM: Grim Death Awaits Release year: 2009Label: Woodcut Records After a respectable 10-year career, 12 if you count the two years they operated as Haudankaivaja, Finnish Vorum recently decided to call it a day and the members went their separate … Continue reading The grim death of Vorum
TOMB MOLD: Primordial Malignity Release year: 2017Label: Blood Harvest In the years since their inception in 2015, Canadian Tomb Mold have evolved in leaps. From a studio project of two members to a full line-up, from primordial and ugly death … Continue reading Primordial mold from malign tombs
CARCASS: Reek Of Putrefaction Release year: 1988Label: Earache Records Trailblazing UK goregrinders Carcass had an interesting evolution during their first three albums, going from the lo-fi bass-buzz maelstrom of their debut to the at times quite intricately technical death metal … Continue reading Reek Of Carcass
Despite a career spanning a decade, several albums and connections to cult Finnish act Slugathor, doom-laden death metal entity Desecresy have never ascended from the murky depths of the deep death metal underground. With a new album, Towards Nebulae, being … Continue reading At the threshold of Desecresy’s dark cosmos
INCANTATION: Onward To Golgotha Release year: 1992Label: Relapse Records In the days before convention set in and artists started looking too much to the icons of their own scenes for inspiration, there was a beautiful amount of diversity in death … Continue reading Incantation leading us onward to Golgotha
DESECRESY: Stoic Death Release year: 2015Label: Xtreem Records Finnish Desecresy have always fascinated me for a number of reasons. One of them is how seldom you see their name mentioned considering they’re celebrating their 10th anniversary this year and have … Continue reading Exploring caverns of cosmic darkness with Desecresy
INCANTATION: Upon The Throne Of Apocalypse Release year: 1995/2019Label: Relapse Records As the liner notes of the 2019 re-release of Incantations‘ third full-length output detail, the material on the album is in essence a demo of what eventually became US … Continue reading Once again unto the apocalypse with Incantation
Only Death Is Real 