ANTHROPIC: Architects Of Aggression Release year: 2020Label: Jbudz Records/Sevared Records/Haunted Hotel Records Grindcore’s a funny old genre, isn’t it? The bastard child of early extreme metal and equally early extreme punk, taking musical aggression to ludicrous levels of straightforwardness, has … Continue reading Anthropic Aggression
SOULSKINNER: Seven Bowls Of Wrath Release year: 2020Label: Xtreem Music On their newest, in total fifth full-length album, Greek death metal act Soulskinner face changes. This is their first album without former vocalist Gothmog (also of Thou Art Lord fame), … Continue reading Seven bowls of Soulskinner
DESOLATOR: Sermon Of Apathy Release year: 2020Label: Black Lion Records Swedish Desolator are no newcomers to the game: they formed already in 2009, but prior to this only have one full-length album and assorted smaller releases to their name. Oh … Continue reading Sermon of Desolator
ABATUAR: Mortandad Release year: 2020Label: Dunkelheit Produktionen The promo sheet describes Abatuar’s second album as a mixture of old school grinding death a’la Repulsion and the bestial war metal of Proclamation and Black Witchery. And you know, for once, the … Continue reading In Abatuar’s South American Hell
BLASPHEMOUS PUTREFACTION: Prelude To Perversion Release year: 2020Label: Dunkelheit Produktionen With a name like Blasphemous Putrefaction, you don’t have to do too much guessing to figure out the genre. Yes, death metal is the name of the game. And then, … Continue reading Blasphemous preludes to putrefaction
SHEZMU: À Travers Les Lambeaux Release year: 2020Label: Krucyator Productions Back when I was a kid first getting into extreme metal, death metal was what I first got into. As someone coming from a background of classic heavy metal and … Continue reading Shezmu’s maw of darkness
OSSUARY ANEX: Obscurantism Apogee Release year: 2020Label: Xtreem Music Cultural exchange is a wonderful thing. It builds understanding between peoples, nations and cultures in a way that no formal channels can. As such, when a Russian act belts out pure-bred … Continue reading Ossuary obscurantism
UNDEAD: Existential Horror Release year: 2019/2020Label: Kadabra Music With what appears to be a zombie on the cover of the album, Undead set the tone for the record from the go. The band, whose members reside in Spain and the … Continue reading Curse of the Undead
DECREPID: Endless Sea Of Graves Release year: 2020Label: Xtreem Music According to the bio that came with the promo, UK death metal outift Decrepid are “among the small band of groups around the world who decided to take a stand … Continue reading A decrepid sea of graves
SOUL GRINDER: Chronicles Of Decay Release year: 2020Label: Black Sunset German Soul Grinder have been practising their brand of old school death metal since 2018. In that time, they’ve released one EP and now this, their debut full-length album. Not … Continue reading Chronicles of the soul grinders
Only Death Is Real 