Vile – The New Age of Chaos
There’s something to be said for no frills, competently brutal, US death metal and Vile, along with Divine Empire’s Method of Execution have delivered it in droves.Compared to other Unique Leader bands...
View ArticleDecrepit Birth – Diminishing Between Worlds
Change is often a hit and miss prospect for metal bands; just ask Metallica, Entombed, Immortal, Carcass, Gorefest and many others. In the case of California’s Decrepit Birth, who after a nasty and...
View ArticleLecherous Nocturne – The Age of Miracles Has Passed
Despite the switch from Deepsend to Unique Leader, little has changed in the Lecherous Nocturne camp. They still feature Mike Poggione (Monstrosity, Carpharnaum) on bass, they still unleash blistering...
View ArticleInterview with Carnophage
I’ve seen more and more extreme metal bands coming out of Turkey these past few years (Cenotaph, Episode 13, Zifir, Self Torture, Heretic Soul, etc). Are the death and black metal scenes strong in...
View ArticleVomit the Soul – Apostles of Inexpression
I wrote this at the same time as Ingested for 2 reasons, the first being that its slamming death metal also but also for balance because whilst it is of that ilk it is a decidedly different beast. VTS...
View ArticleKamikabe – Aberration of Man
You kind of know what you are getting just by looking at the cover of the debut from Pittsburgh’s Kamikabe; the logo, the artwork, the label, etc; yup- techy, brutal death metal/deathcore that culls...
View ArticleDevolved – Reprisal
Here’s a unique and challenging album from the usually predictable Unique Leader Records. Hailing from Australia but residing in Los Angeles, Devolved have 3 previous full length albums under their...
View ArticleDeprecated – Deriding His Creation EP (Reissue)
Deprecated were a band who featured bassist Derek Boyer (Deeds of Flesh, Disgorge, Decrepit Birth) before he joined Suffocation, and now reunited, the band now features Terrance Hobbs (Suffocation),...
View ArticlePyrexia – Feast of Iniquity
It’s been 6 long years since Pyrexia’s last album, Age of the Wicked, was released and what we have here folks is Feast of Iniquity, the fourth album in this legendary NYDM band’s repertoire and it’s a...
View ArticleOblivion – Called to Rise
Dang it. I wanted to like this sooooo much more. Oblivion sees former All Shall Perish founder and guitarist Ben Orum reunite with buddies Nick Vasallo (vocals) and Luis Martinez (drums) from his pre...
View ArticleDysmorphic – A Notion of Causality
Dysmorphic is a technical death metal band from France and A Notion of Causality is their full length debut album. They have a self financed ep from a few years back that I have yet to hear. Some of...
View ArticleKennedy Veil, The – Trinity of Falsehood
Last year around this time, a Unique Leader release by the band Katalepsy set the brutal death world on edge with their album Autopsychosis; it also ended up as one of my top 5 albums of the year. Now...
View ArticleSoreption – Engineering the Void
Swedish band Soreption plays technical death metal with the syncopated, razor-sharp riffs of Decapitated with the machine-like djent-chugging of Aeon. Their first release on Unique Leader, Engineering...
View ArticleBLOODTRUTH: Italian Death Metal Troupe Joins Unique Leader Records
Italian death metal troupe, BLOODTRUTH, is pleased to join Unique Leader Records’ expanding realm of extreme. Initially forged in 2009 as the side project of Fleshgod Apocalypse members Francesco...
View ArticleAlterbeast – Immortal
Formerly known as Gary Busey Amber Alert, California Alterbeast has released an album that adds to Unique Leaders killer 2014 so far which has included the outstanding Soreption release,The Kennedy...
View ArticleNear Death Condition – Evolving Towards Extinction
Unique Leader Records is on a definite upswing. Dating back to last year’s Rings of Saturn, Pyrexia, Deeds of Flesh and Deprecated releases and opening up 2014 with Soreption’s killer Engineering the...
View ArticleBeneath – The Barren Throne
Hailing from Iceland, Beneath is a tech death metal band who share two ex members with the only other death metal band from Iceland I have ever heard,the pretty damn solid Ophidian I, who released...
View ArticlePillory – Evolutionary Miscarriage
The second album from the reformed Pillory, (who released one album, No Lifeguard at the Gene Pool back in 2005 then broke up in 2008) isn’t quite what you’d expect from Unique Leader. And while it...
View ArticleFallujah – The Flesh Prevails
Fallujah is a little bit the victim of the deathcore backlash as well as saturation of techy modern ‘death metal’ bands like The Faceless, Within the Ruins, River of Nihil, Kamikabe Born of Osiris, The...
View ArticleOmnihility – Deathscapes of the Subconscious
In nature, the hunter always at some point becomes the hunted or to use another analogy the student becomes the master. Pick your terrible analogy, but it applies to metal all the time. Some younger...
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