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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 10
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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 2
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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 23
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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 20
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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, 2024
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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, 2024
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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, 2024
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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, 2024
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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, 2024
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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, 2024
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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, 2024
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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, 2024
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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, 2024
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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, 2024
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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, 2024
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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, 2024
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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, 2024
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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, 2024
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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, 2023
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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, 2023
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Cult Burial - Reverie of the Malignant
Release Date - 20th October 2023 Label - Self- Released Words - Chris Fletcher When it is done well, the fusion of death and black metal...
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Oct 28, 2023
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End - The Sin of Human Frailty
Release Date- 27th October 2023 Label - Closed Casket Activities Words- Tony Bliss Ever since their emergence in 2017, END’s modus...
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Oct 24, 2023
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Body Void - Atrocity Machine
Release Date - 13th October 2023 Label - Prosthetic Records Words - Tony Bliss Now retooled as a three-piece, the fact that Body Void...
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Oct 8, 2023
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Polaris - Dublin Academy - 24th September 2023
It is a cold and wet Sunday evening in Dublin and Sydney-based metalcore crew are in town for their debut headline show on Irish soil....
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Sep 26, 2023
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Guilt Trip – Severance
Label – MLVLTD Release Date – 22nd September 2023 Words – Venny On a dark December ‘22 evening, myself and a couple of hundred others...
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Sep 19, 2023
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FLESHER - Tales of Grotesque Demise
Label - Redefining Darkness Records Release Date - 15th September 2023 Words- Chris Fletcher In an era where the bands who put out...
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Sep 14, 2023
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Tesseract – War Of Being
Label - Kscope Release - 15th September 2023 Words - Venny The build up to the release of fifth album led to some anticipation. The lush...
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Sep 13, 2023
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Celestial Sanctuary - Insatiable Thirst For Torment
Label - Church Road Records Release Date - 25th August 2023 Words - Tony Bliss The most astute metal pundits of our world will have been...
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Aug 24, 2023
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Grand Cadaver - Deities Of Deathlike Sleep
Label - Majestic Mountain Records Release Date - 25th August 2023 Words - Chris Fletcher For better or worse, the term ‘supergroup’ will...
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Aug 24, 2023
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Kataklysm - Goliath
Label- Nuclear Blast Release Date - 11th of August 2023 Words- Chris Fletcher Things change pretty quickly in the world of music, so for...
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Aug 15, 2023
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Urne - A Feast On Sorrow
Label - Candlelight Records Release Date - 11th August Words- Tony Bliss When Serpent & Spirit emerged in 2021, comparisons to prime...
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Aug 9, 2023
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AKERCOCKE - Decades of Devil Worship
Label - Peaceville Records Release Date - 21st July 2023 Words- Tony Bliss The emergence of Akercocke in the late nineties was like manna...
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Jul 14, 2023
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Deitus - Irreversible
Label - Candlelight Records Release Date - 14th July 2023 Words- Chris Fletcher After a prolonged four-year silence, York-based trio...
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Jul 12, 2023
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Calligram - Position | Momentum
Label - Prosthetic Records Release Date- 14th July 2023 Ah, the difficult second album. Many have tried and many have failed to capture...
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Jul 6, 2023
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Creeping Death - Boundless Domain
Label - MNRK Heavy Release Date - 16th June 2023 Words - Tony Bliss Impressing the death metal world across the board with 2019’s...
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Jun 15, 2023
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The Bleeding - Monokrator
Label - Redefining Darkness Release Date - 9th June 2023 Words - Tony Bliss Plugging away in the UK underground for well over a decade...
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Jun 9, 2023
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Suffering Quota - Collide
Label - Tartarus Records Release Date - 26th May 2023 Words- Chris Fletcher “God loves violence, why else would there be so much of it?”...
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May 26, 2023
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VHS - Quest For the Mighty Riff
Label - Wise Blood Records Release Date -19th May 2023 Words- Chris Fletcher There is a lot to be said for serious music that drives home...
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May 19, 2023
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Frozen Soul - Glacial Domination
Label - Century Media Records Release Date - 19th May 2023 Words- Tony Bliss Imagine if (and I’m relying on you having some basic Game Of...
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May 15, 2023
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DEVILDRIVER - Dealing With Demons Vol. II
Label - Napalm Records Release Date - 12th May 2023 Words- Chris Fletcher With three decades and nine full-length records under their...
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May 11, 2023
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Omnerod - The Amensal Rise
Label - Self-release Release Date - 12th May Words- Tony Bliss Plugging away since 2009 and enduring a rather turbulent career thus far,...
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May 10, 2023
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Cattle Decapitation - Terrasite
Label - Metal Blade Records Release Date - 12th May 2023 Words- Tony Bliss Cattle Decapitation are genuine one-offs. Whilst always a...
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May 8, 2023
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Unearth - The Wretched; The Ruinous
Label - Century Media Release Date- 5th May 2023 Words - Tony Bliss Whilst the so-called ‘New Wave Of American Heavy Metal’ established...
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May 1, 2023
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Enforced - War Remains
Label - Century Media Release Date - 28th April 2023 Words- Tony Bliss There’s nothing more satisfying than well-executed thrash metal,...
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Apr 24, 2023
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Wallowing - Earth Reaper
Label- Church Road Records Release Date - 28th April 2023 Words - Tony Bliss Now five years and two full-lengths into their career,...
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Apr 24, 2023
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BURY TOMORROW - THE SEVENTH SUN
Label - Music for Nations Release Date- 31st March 2023 Words- Tony Bliss With the groundswell of British metal talent forever growing...
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Mar 30, 2023
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Demonstealer - The Propaganda Machine
Label - Black Lion Release Date - 31st March 2023 Words- Tony Bliss Pretty much single-handedly starting a heavy music revolution in his...
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Mar 30, 2023
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Allfather- A Violent Truth
Label - Trepanation Records Release Date- 31st March 2023 Words - Chris Fletcher The UK metal scene is undoubtedly in ridiculously good...
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Mar 30, 2023
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NE OBLIVISCARIS - Exul
Release Date - 24th March 2023 Label - Season of Mist Words - Tony Bliss As much as progressive metal can - with the best will in the...
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Mar 23, 2023
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OV SULFUR - The Burden Ov Faith
Release Date- 24th March 2023 Label - Century Media Words- Tony Bliss Although the emergence of deathcore inspired a particularly...
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Mar 20, 2023
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