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Dreadnought (USA) – A Wake in Sacred Waves (Progressive Metal/Doom/Black Metal, Sailor Records) Denver’s Dreadnought has been writing some of the more exciting progressive rock/metal out there for the past five years. They’ve always been hard to pin down, encompassing elements of just about every type of metal while pulling in a considerable amount […]
Sacrocurse has been writing some grimy, hellish black/death metal for the past five years, becoming a regular name associated with both Hells Headbangers and Iron Bonehead Productions. The latter recently released the group’s second full length album ‘Gnostic Holocaust’, which takes the warlike attack of last year’s ‘Destroying Chapels’ EP and takes things to the […]
Thrash is one of those genres that tend to be dominated by long-running bands, often split between acts that have been around since the 80’s and ones that led to the style going through a resurgence in popularity in the early 2000’s. But there are still promising newcomers coming out on a regular basis from […]
Chilean death metal has been a dominant force for quite some time but it hasn’t been until the last few years that I’ve seen bands from the country mentioned as frequently as their peers from other parts of the world. Thanks in part to the rise of platforms like Bandcamp and a number of labels […]
Memento Mori’s already had a standout year with killer releases from Ruin, Soulrot, and Ekpyrosis (to name a few), but they’ve still got some more quality death metal to unleash upon listeners as we approach the end of 2017. This includes the debut full length from Greece’s Pile of Excrements, ‘Escatology’. For the type of […]
Nepali hardcore/crust band Neck deep in Filth features members from bands like Jugaa, Squirtguns & Asphyxiate. The band have released an politically driven EP, the cover art depicts a member of a minority community surrounded by bullets and the Nepali flag. Over multiple listens, the EP has become one of my favourite grindcore releases from […]
Continuing from what we attempted to do with our German death metal article, which met with a good response, with several known and unknown bands getting highlighted in the style, this time around we have shifted our focus to Sweden, which was once known as the Mecca of death metal and influenced thousands of bands […]
Japan’s heaven in her arms has been together for close to twelve years now, but depending on where you live you may not have come across them before. While they’ve had regular distribution in their home country and Europe, North American listeners have been limited to imports. That’s changed with this year’s full length ‘White […]
Drouth (USA) – Knives, Labyrinths, Mirrors (Black/death metal, Independent) Drouth is red-hot. They bring the kind of heat that US-based black metal bands like Uada and Void Omnia have been stoking recently, that black/death conflagration that you just to jump into and immolate yourself upon. The vocals are scathing, the drums unrelenting, and the guitars […]
