Gore, gore and more glorious gore! Is there anything more scandalously beautiful than an old-school, gore-obsessed, American death metal album? Of course there isn’t! [...]
Irish grindcore. You want some, right! Well, Aborted Earth are here to satisfy your craving with Birth, a 4-track EP of grinding, deathly malevolence which is over in a [...]
Italy’s Valgrind have been around since 1994 but finally made their mark on the death metal scene back in 2016, when they released the pretty damn special, Speech Of [...]
As a general rule, the UK’s contribution to death metal is routinely glossed over in favour of the output of our American cousins (who’s contribution, to be fair, was [...]
1988; one of the greatest years in heavy metal history. The year that thrash continued to slap the mainstream in the chops while progressing at a considerable rate. The year [...]
A quick definition before we begin: Pemphigoid is the word used to describe a group of rare autoimmune blistering skin diseases….which is nice. Not that we’re [...]
Part’s 1 & 2 of our under-appreciated classics of American death metal highlighted the likes of Oppressor, Infester, Morta Skuld, Ripping Corpse and Rottrevore [...]
Born in 1995, Skinned have been spreading their plague of brutal death metal for over 20 years, growing in stature and steadily becoming a band of considerable power and [...]
Like the death metal version of fellow countrymen Sabbat, these anti-Christian pagans from the UK were a complete anomaly in their respective genre but, sadly, Dark [...]
Finland’s Carnifex may have lasted only four years – from 1989 to 1993 – and recorded just three demos, but these are now being released with remastered [...]