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
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
Only Death Is Real 