

Cytotoxin - Biographyte
Release Date - 11th April 2025 Words - Tony Bliss Although the ultra-technical, post-deathcore strain of modern extreme metal often...
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Apr 102 min read
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Tómarúm - Beyond Obsidian Euphoria
Label - Prosthetic Records Release Date - 4th of April 2025 Words - Tony Bliss With the lines so definitively blurred between metal...
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Apr 22 min read
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Desert Smoke - Desert Smoke
Release Date - 28th March 2025 Label - Raging Planet Records Words - Chris Fletcher Hailing from Lisbon’s underrated underground metal...
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Mar 232 min read
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RETROMORPHOSIS - Psalmus Mortis
Essentially Swedish tech-death legends Spawn Of Possession born anew, Retromorphosis may be a new name in underground circles, but the...
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Feb 202 min read
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Undeath - More Insane
Words - Fletch Release date - 4th Oct 24 Label - Prosthetic When we had the honor of reviewing Undeath’s sophomore album ‘It’s Time… To...
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Oct 4, 20242 min read
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Sugar Horse - The Grand Scheme Of Things
Released - 4th October 2024 Label - Pelagic records Words - Venny Sugar Horse are arising from, and contributing to, a reach seam of...
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Sep 28, 20242 min read
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Nails- Every Bridge Burning
Label - Nuclear Blast Records Release Date - 30th August 2024 Words- Tony Bliss Although by all accounts a thoroughly nice chap, Nails...
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Aug 29, 20242 min read
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Nile- The Underworld Awaits Us All
Label - Napalm Records Release Date - 23rd August 2024 Words - Tony Bliss With AT LEAST three essential records under their scarab...
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Aug 20, 20242 min read
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Kurokuma - Of Amber and Sand'
Label - Self-Release Release Date - 9th August 2024 Words - Chris Fletcher Albums based on the concept of time are not exactly a new...
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Aug 9, 20242 min read
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200 Stab Wounds - Manual Manic Procedures
Release Date - 28th of June 2024 Label - Metal Blade Records Words- Tony Bliss With the new breed slamming down the gauntlet pretty much...
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Jun 25, 20242 min read
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Dååth - The Deceivers
Label - Metal Blade Records Release Date - 3rd May 2024 Words- Tony Bliss When the gears finally began to turn again on the Daath...
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May 2, 20242 min read
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BRODEQUIN - Harbinger Of Woe
Label - Season of Mist Release Date - 22nd March 2024 Words - Chris Fletcher Bursting onto the scene at the turn of the millennium,...
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Mar 22, 20242 min read
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Aborted - Vault of Horrors
Release Date - 15th March 2024 Label - Nuclear Blast Words- Tony Bliss There are few bands that deliver the unvarnished, blood ‘n’ guts...
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Mar 12, 20242 min read
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Borknagar - Fall
Label - Century Media Release Date- 23rd February 2024 Words- Chris Fletcher The mixture of black metal with progressive elements is...
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Feb 23, 20242 min read
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Spectral Voice - Sparagmos
Label - Dark Descent Records Release Date - 9th Feb 2024 Words - Tony Bliss Spectral Voice aren’t the sort of band to do things in a...
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Feb 7, 20242 min read
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Vitriol - Suffer & Become
Label - Century Media Release Date - 26th January 2024 Words - Tony Bliss Vitriol are bloody terrifying. Indeed, as much as the recent...
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Jan 25, 20242 min read
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The Infernal Sea - Hellfenlic
Release Date- 24th January Label - Candlelight Records Words- Tony Bliss Hailing from a place as folklore-rich and flush with atmosphere...
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Jan 23, 20242 min read
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Resin Tomb - Cerebral Purgatory
Label - Transcending Obscurity Records Release Date - 19th Jan 2024 Words- Chris Fletcher In recent years it feels like every time you...
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Jan 17, 20242 min read
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Underdark - Managed Decline
Label - Church Road Records Release Date - 24th November 2023 Words- Chris Fletcher “I wanted to explore the long-term effects of...
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Nov 23, 20232 min read
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Laang 冷 - Riluo
Label - Talheim Records Release Date- 24th November 2023 Words- Joey Cathartic. It's a phrase used often enough when making an album in...
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Nov 17, 20232 min read
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