Morbid Angel

Grave Desecrator – Dust to Lust Review

By Diabolus in Muzaka on June 9, 2016 in 2016, Brazilian Metal, Death Metal, Reviews, Season of Mist, Death Metal, 24 comments

“Having been rather busy as of late doing a paper on Edmund Husserl, I should probably be able to come up with a phenomenal introduction but instead find myself facing the Crisis of Angry Metal Guy Ledes head-on. I suppose a riff on how Grave Desecrator’s fourth full-length Dust to Lust works amusingly with Coffin Dust and Coffin Lust because coffins go with graves and chronologically Dr. A.N. Grier’s typically great work on the former came before my thoughts on the latter like the album name, but that’s not how you bait the clicks.” With a click o’ the switch, she’ll bait you sky high!

Abhomine – Larve Offal Swine Review

By Al Kikuras on April 23, 2016 in 2016, American Metal, Black Metal, Death Metal, Hells Headbangers Records, Reviews, Uncategorized, Black Metal, Death Metal, 28 comments

“Pete Helmkamp’s varied projects over the years have one special unifying quality: there is something unsettling about them all that transcends music and hits the core of your being, reminding you that the world is an immaculately fucked up place and our tenure on it is tentative at best. Larvae Offal Swine, the debut album under the moniker Abhomine, is Helmkamp’s first true solo effort in which he wrote and performed all of the music with the exception of the drums. How does this nigh legendary extreme metal front man stand when on his own?” Offal before swine?

Nucleus – Sentient Review

By Grymm on April 6, 2016 in 2016, American Metal, Death Metal, Reviews, Unspeakable Axe Records, Death Metal, Technical Death Metal, 34 comments

“We live in a time where everything old is new again, and metal music is no exception. We have retro-stoner rock, retro-thrash, Scooby-Doobie Doom, and now… retro-tech-death? With the creation and success of Horrendous, many nimble-fingered, musically-acrobatic musicians are screaming bloody gore and exploring their more Human side to bring back a classic sound with all of the necessary upgrades to keep things somewhat fresh.” Tech-death like Death? That might just sell!

Ritual Chamber – Obscurations (To Feast on the Seraphim) Review

By Roquentin on February 25, 2016 in 2016, American Metal, Death Metal, Profound Lore Records, Reviews, Death Metal, 17 comments

“Simply put, Obscurations (To Feast on the Seraphim), the début by one-man band Ritual Chamber, is easily an archetype of how “evil” music should sound. Guitar riffs and growled vocals rise from a gutter filled with tortured souls, putrid bile drips from drum kicks and rumbling bass lines, and a general atmosphere of rot and despair fills each and every song. Cliché as it may seem, it’s dread incarnated.” Ready for some dread and breakfast?

Brutality – Sea of Ignorance Review

By Al Kikuras on February 3, 2016 in 2016, American Metal, Ceremonial Records, Death Metal, Reviews, Death Metal, 66 comments

“Brutality came along at the first death knell of a genre that has outlasted just about every musical trend that has come and gone. They released some thrashy death metal demos, one of which (Dimension Demented) I reviewed in the print version of Unchain the Underground back in 1992.” Mr. Kikuras has long running ties to brutal endeavors.

Cult Leader – Lightless Walk [Things You Might Have Missed 2015]

By Mark Z. on February 2, 2016 in 2015, American Metal, Crust Punk, Hardcore, Things You Might Have Missed 2015, Crust Punk, Hardcore, 6 comments

“Any fan of Gaza knows the drama. In early 2013, vocalist Jon Parkin became the target of a rape allegation that, though eventually settled out of court by both parties, ultimately led to the remainder of the Utah-based hardcore outfit cutting ties with Parkin and starting anew. The result was Cult Leader: essentially the same lineup, with bassist Anthony Lucero dropping the four-string to take over on vocals.” Join the cult or refuse the Kool Aid?

Sarpanitum – Blessed Be my Brothers… [Things You Might Have Missed 2015]

By Jean-Luc Ricard on December 18, 2015 in Death Metal, English Metal, Things You Might Have Missed 2015, Willowtip, Death Metal, 15 comments

“Sarpanitum is now over a decade old, which is terrifying because it seems like only yesterday that I first stumbled on them in Zero Tolerance magazine’s Death Metal Special Part II (featured alongside yours truly, believe it or not). That was in 2006. Identified as promising UK death metal hopefuls, both they and I have since amply justified that tag with our prolific outputs of… one full-length record each.” Slow and steady wins the death race.

Burn the Mankind – To Beyond Review

By Diabolus in Muzaka on December 11, 2015 in 2015, Brazilian Metal, Death Metal, Mighty Music, Reviews, Death Metal, 42 comments

“Death metal, at least in its most modernistic and stereotypical actualization, largely eschews the cerebral in favor of the visceral, crafting violent soundscapes that reinforce instead of juxtapose the narratives of disfigurement, annihilation, and warfare that accompany the music. And…cut.” Fancy words from a pretentious man.

Rex Shachath – Revocation of the Blood Elect EP Review

By Jean-Luc Ricard on December 1, 2015 in 2015, Death Metal, Great Dane Records, Reviews, Death Metal, 8 comments

“I like my death metal like the Swedes like their herrings: putrefied to the point of being potentially hazardous to consumers. Come to think of it, that’s also how the Swedes like their death metal. No wonder I’ve been enjoying the waves of throwback Swedeath that have splashed across my eardrums with remarkable frequency since Bloodbath’s debut re-popularized the Stockholm sound over ten years ago. But even the pungent flavor of semi-rotten fish becomes bland and unsatisfying when consumed in bulk, and so it is with retro death metal.” When is too much really too much?

Shrines – Shrines Review

By Jean-Luc Ricard on September 30, 2015 in 2015, Apocalyptic Witchcraft, Black Metal, Death Metal, Progressive Metal, Reviews, Black Metal, Death Metal, Progressive Metal, 17 comments

“As Voices guitarist Sam Loynes says “yes to anything that comes [his] way, metal or otherwise,” his growing list of projects are quite numerous. Shrines (formerly Diminished Fifth) is the third of Sam’s bands I’ve reviewed, and one I’ve been very much looking forward to listening to.” The Voices and Voices related love continues unabated.