Pyrexia – Gravitas Maximus
Late last year, NYDM brutal death metal veterans Pyrexia returned with their sixth full-length album, Gravitas Maximus. They had recently announced the new album and honestly, it came out of nowhere-I...
View ArticleWorm Shepherd – Ritual Hymns
Symphonic or blackened deathcore blew the fuck up in 2021. Though it was certainly a thing before 2020, After the success of Lorna Shore‘s Immortal in 2020, the genre simply exploded with already...
View ArticleLast Ten Seconds of Life, The – The Last Ten Seconds of Life
Deathcore is having another moment. This new wave is being led by such heavyweights from last year such as Worm Shepherd, Osiah, Mental Cruelty, Signs of the Swarm, and Bound in Fear, and looks to be...
View ArticleCrown Magnetar – Alone in Death EP
It’s amazing what adding a new band member or two can do for a band. After a self-released EP, The Prophet of Disgust, in 2018, Colorado’s Crown Magnetar added vocalist Dan Tucker and guitarist Nick...
View ArticleExtinction A.D – Culture of Violence
I’ve had a Power Trip sized hole in my heart since the untimely passing of Riley Gale. Last year’s Spiritworld helped fill it temporarily (giggity), but not permanently. What I didn’t anticipate was an...
View ArticleJungle Rot – A Call to Arms
There’s a new Jungle Rot album on the way, okay? At this point, let’s be honest with ourselves. You know what they bring to the table. You either like it or you don’t. This album is not likely to...
View ArticleSoreption – Jord
It seems like forever ago when Sweden’s Soreption was a contender for my 2014 album of the year with Engineering the Void. The perfect blend of stuttering Meshuggah syncopation and tech death wizardry...
View ArticleExocrine – The Hybrid Suns
Though not quite the tech-death onslaught that 2021 was, 2022 has still had some stellar releases from the likes of Aethereus, Inanimate Existence and GreyLotus. And while GreyLotus’ Dawnfall might be...
View ArticleCarrion Vael – Abhorrent Obsessions
Here we are, well over halfway into 2022 and in my eyes, two labels are standing out. The Artisan Era is having a hell of a year, as well as the label on which the new Carrion Vael is getting released,...
View ArticleXenobiotic – Hate Monolith EP
This is an instance where I actually bit off far less than I can chew. Damn it, I was really looking forward to a new full-length from Xenobiotic after really enjoying 2020s Mordrake and my body was...
View ArticleA Wake In Providence – Eternity
When you run the risk of being simply known as “the band that Will Ramos of Lorna Shore used to sing for”, you’d better deliver on your album that you recorded after Ramos’s departure …. And Boy to A...
View ArticleBonecarver – Carnage Funeral
There’s an old adage “You can have too much of a good thing”. And for me, that “good thing” is blackened/symphonic deathcore, and I can have as much of it as I fucking want. And Spain’s Bonecarver has...
View ArticleLast Ten Seconds of Life, The – Disquisition on an Execution EP
What’s the fucking point? Seriously, what’s the point of deathcore anymore? When Lorna Shore raised the bar so high, yet A Wake in Providence and Angelmaker came very close to clearing it with their...
View ArticleExtermination Dismemberment – Dehumanization Protocol
Boy have I been waiting for this one. Ever since these Russians dropped the killer video for “Protonemesis” over a year ago. I’ve been salivating for this release, as it’s been 10 years since Serial...
View ArticleCrown Magnetar – Everything Bleeds
This summer, two major deathcore heavyweights will be vying for your attention. On one hand, is Signs of the Swarm and the subtly evolved and technical Amongst the Low & Empty. A still brutal, but...
View ArticlePeelingFlesh – Slamaholics Vol. 2 EP
Oklahoma’s PeelingFlesh are starting to gain some major attention and at the start of this year, I reviewed their PF Radio EP, right here, on Teeth of the Divine. If you snoozed, then go back and...
View ArticleVoynich Code, The – Insomnia
Unique Leader Records? Check. Caelen Stokkermans cover art? Check. Blackened Technical deathcore? Check. Cool band moniker? Check. Christian Donaldson (Cryptopsy) mix/master? Check Album title I can...
View ArticleCondemned – Daemonium
It’s been a while since San Diego’s brutal death metal band Condemned, released an album, which was their third album, His Divine Shadow, in 2017. Such a brutal death metal album. I saw them on that...
View ArticleOsiah – Kairos
This UK deathcore band has been busy over the last few years in terms of writing and playing shows. Osiah’s last full-length album in 2021, Loss, I felt was pretty damn monstrous and their best album....
View ArticleLast Ten Seconds Of Life, The – No Name Graves
After a solid career that saw TLTSOL emerge as a solid upper-tier US deathcore act with 6 albums, guitarist Wyatt McLaughlin saw his band gutted back in 2022. He rebuilt TLTSOL and delivered a solid...
View ArticleA Wake in Providence – I Write To You, My Darling Decay
If you did a ‘Big 4’ of symphonic deathcore, who ya got? For me, the first 3 are easy shoo-ins; Lorna Shore, Mental Cruelty, and Shadow of Intent. But who is the 4th band when you take into account...
View ArticleExtinction A.D. – To the Detested
I was and am a huge fan of Culture of Violence, Extinction A.D’s previous album so expectations for To the Detested were quite high. Truthfully, I would have been more than satisfied if it was just...
View ArticleVulvodynia – Entabeni
I reviewed South Africa’s brutal death metal/deathcore band Vulvodynia’s Praenuntius Infiniti album three years ago and was super impressed with the album, seeing I had been a recent fan of theirs and...
View ArticlePeelingFlesh – The G Code
I have reviewed Oklahoma’s PeelingFlesh last several EP’s and now they have dropped their debut album The G Code. For anyone unfamiliar with this band, take brutal slam death metal and mix it with...
View ArticleWorm Shepherd – Hunger
What the fuck is up with Deathcore vocalists? CJ McCreery (ex-Lorna Shore), Lucca Schmerler (ex-Mental Cruelty), CJ McMahon (ex-Thy Art is Murder), Jay Evans (ex-Ingested), and Worm Shepherd‘s Devin...
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