Year: 2024Label: Time To Kill Records/Kick/Narcotica Publishing Death metal and grindcore are genres naturally predilected towards violence. Themes of gore, sadism, violence and all things splattered with viscera are the bread and butter of both genres. However, Finnish deathgrind duo … Continue reading GOATBURNER: Fatal
Year: 2024Label: Svart Records So many artists, so many releases, so little time. Especially when your musical tastes are somewhat extensive and far reaching, this equation becomes impossible – and I do consider my taste to be just that. As … Continue reading PETRIFICATION: Sever Sacred Light
Release year: 2024Label: Xtreem Music Christ Denied is one of the many projects of Dave Rotten, whose perhaps best known band is Avulsed, whose Extraterrestrial Carnage ep we reviewed recently (click). Rotten also runs Xtreem Music, the label behind this … Continue reading CHRIST DENIED: Christopsy
It must have been 25 years ago to the month that I first heard US death/doom icons Winter for the first time. I remember it clearly: spring was already turning warm, the end of school was just a few weeks … Continue reading From the Vaults #10: Into Darkness/Eternal Frost
Release year: 2023Label: Xtreem Music With a name like Funeral Vomit, there’s no need to guess what these Columbians are about. Oh yeah: death metal. And taking a look at the cover, it’s easy to pinpoint their stylistic trappings even … Continue reading FUNERAL VOMIT: Monumental Putrescence
KAUNIS KUOLEMATON: Mielenvalta Release year: 2023Label: Noble Demon I’ll level with ya. The style Finnish Kaunis Kuolematon represents – melodic extreme metal with doom elements and clean vocals aplenty – isn’t my cup of tea. In fact, it’s the kind … Continue reading Beautiful undying
DESECRESY: Deserted Realms Release year: 2023Label: Xtreem Music Finnish Desecresy are one of those bands, who’ve been plying their trade for a good while somewhat out of the limelight, chip by chip whittling away excess and piece by piece honing … Continue reading The deserted realms of Desecresy
For those growing up and getting into extreme metal now, in the age of streaming services and much of all recorded music ever published being available anywhere, at any time from a mobile device in yer pocket, the 90’s probably … Continue reading From the Vaults #2: Formulas Fatal To The Flesh
SORROW: Death Of Sorrow Release year: 2023Label: Xtreem Music Sorrow who, I hear you ask. That’s a fair question – there are a number of acts named Sorrow we could cover over here, from Death In June collaborator Rose McDowall’s … Continue reading Sorrow dying
AVULSED: Extraterrestrial Carnage Release year: 2023Label: Xtreem Music It’s been a while since long-running Spanish death metal act Avulsed released anything – six years in fact. As such, this fresh new release will probably not sate the thirst of old … Continue reading Extraterrestrial avulsion
Only Death Is Real 