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Antichrist – Pax Moriendi Review

Antichrist – Pax Moriendi Review

By Mark Z. on March 15, 2018 in 2018, Death Metal, Doom Metal, Iron Bonehead Productions, Reviews, Death Metal, Doom Metal, 49 comments

“I’ve often wondered about the importance of a band’s name. Would Death be as big, or produced the same groundbreaking music, if they’d named themselves Erotic Diarrhea Monster? Would Kreator have become the thrash legends they did if they instead called themselves Pee Wee’s Scrotal Shitstorm? The world may never know, but it certainly seems having a more common and accessible name puts pressure on a band to produce better music. Case in point: Antichrist, a Peruvian quartet originally formed in 2004 and later reactivated in 2012.” The Devil is in the details.

Gravesite – Neverending Trail of Skulls Review

Gravesite – Neverending Trail of Skulls Review

By Mark Z. on August 2, 2017 in 2017, Death Metal, Italian Metal, Reviews, Xtreem Music, Death Metal, 40 comments

“On 2015 debut Horrifying Nightmares…, the quartet excelled at slinging riff after riff at the listener, offering an experience that was enjoyable but didn’t always stick. Nevertheless the record impressed me enough with its lurching guitars and vintage horror creepiness that it narrowly escaped a Things You Might Have Missed writeup and a spot on my Year-End list. With sophomore full-length Neverending Trail of Skulls, I’m finally here to make the trek and reveal the sick world these former Undead Creep members have created.” Goodbye Yellow Brick Road.

Aposento – Bleed to Death Review

Aposento – Bleed to Death Review

By Diabolus in Muzaka on June 17, 2017 in 2017, Death Metal, Reviews, Spanish Metal, Xtreem Music, Death Metal, 11 comments

“How many death metal records today are worth stealing from? Not many, I’d wager; we simply have too many of them to keep track of. Look to the language: the promo writers are bored, ‘brutal’ only has so many synonyms, and hearing that somewhere’s latest upstarts sound like old Deicide is only titillating for so long. But what else can be said? For the average death metal fan, the overabundance of material is a boon and a bane: you’ll never run out of grisly tunes, but you’ll never really dig into a record like older ‘heads did Altars of Madness because a brand new platter o’ splatter is ready and waiting.” Single serving death?

Horrid – Beyond the Dark Border Review

Horrid – Beyond the Dark Border Review

By Saunders on June 8, 2017 in 2017, Death Metal, Dunkelheit Produktionen, Italian Metal, Reviews, Death Metal, 8 comments

“Sometimes it’s all in a name. As Mark Z. accurately observed in his recent Soulskinner review, certain names can be almost conclusively attributed to a particular style of metal. I came across a similar scenario with Horrid, a name that immediately screams death metal devotion. What proved more surprising as I delved into the band’s background is that in one form or another the Italian veterans have been active since 1989. Basically they were old school before being old school became cool again.” Horrid is as horrid does.

Soulskinner – Descent to Abaddon Review

Soulskinner – Descent to Abaddon Review

By Mark Z. on May 27, 2017 in 2017, Death Metal, Greek Metal, Reviews, Xtreem Music, Death Metal, 34 comments

“In a way, this review feels pointless. The band name is Soulskinner, the album cover is a medley of skeletal figures, and the album title is a reference to the Hebrew realm of the dead. If you’re going into this record expecting anything but death metal, you either just started listening to metal yesterday or you’re one of the individuals who stumbled upon our site by searching for ‘www.biack man goat fucks.'” More than one way to skin the goat.

Antropomorphia – Sermon ov Wrath Review

Antropomorphia – Sermon ov Wrath Review

By Ferrous Beuller on February 19, 2017 in 2017, Death Metal, Dutch Metal, Metal Blade, Reviews, Death Metal, Melodic Black Metal, 48 comments

“There is no shame in having loved and lost – it’s a natural part of life and, as sure as the world turns and the seasons pass, as inevitable as our own eventual end. Love and death are two themes that are routinely romanticized, despite their irrefutably painful reality. By extension, The Netherlands’ Antropomorphia are also romantics… although not in the Byronic sense you might be expecting.” Strange, illegal love indeed.