Condemned – His Divine Shadow
California’s Condemned are back after 6 long years with their 3rd brutal offering, His Divine Shadow. Original member, guitarist, Steve Crow, had to replace a lot of members years ago. I saw them...
View ArticleHideous Divinity – Adveniens
Man, it never ceases to amaze me how much Italian Death Metal Bands love the Floridian style of death metal. Not that is by any means a bad thing by any means and it most certainly has been a busy...
View ArticleVomit Remnants – Hyper Groove Brutality
Hailing from Japan, Vomit Remnants reunited in 2015 and Hyper Groove Brutality is their second album and first in 18 years. Give it up for drummer and founding member, Keisuke Tsuboi for realizing his...
View ArticleBeneath – Ephemeris
The Barren Throne, the third album from Iceland’s Beneath, was a solid tech/brutal death metal affair, befitting the label it was released on (Unique Leader), but it was hardly a memorable, game...
View ArticleAfterbirth – The Time Traveler’s Dilemma
Long Island, New York’s long running Afterbirth had a re-birth 4 years ago. Guitarist, Cody Drasser was like ‘OK, let’s get this shit going and finally get our debut album out’. You see, Afterbirth...
View ArticleDyscarnate – With All Their Might
UK power trio Dyscarnate got on my radar with the 2014 reissue of their 2012 sophomore album, And So it Came to Pass, an impressive display of groove and heft that many compared to Dying Fetus- and...
View ArticleOblivion – The Path Towards…
I was a huge fan of California’s brutal tech-death band Oblivion’s 2013 debut album Called to Rise. 4 years later and the band is still intact with Ted O’Neill and Victor Dods ( ex Hacksaw to the...
View ArticleKennedy Veil, The – Imperium
It was The Kennedy Veil’s second album, 2014’s Trinity of Falsehood, which really put them on the tech-death map. It was their first album on Unique Leader records, and was a twisting, darting,...
View ArticleAlterbeast – Feast
Sacramento’s Alterbeast are bringing in the New Year with their 2nd full length release Feast. I really have to hand it to Unique Leader they waste absolutely zero time transitioning from year to year...
View ArticleKrosis – Solem Vatem
When Unique Leader signs a band, I instantly put it on my “must check out” list. Their track record of signing some truly top-notch death/brutal death metal is second to none. So as a deathcore fan,...
View ArticleIngested – Level Above Human
Ingested were one of the (at that time) early deathcore bands, who burst onto that scene early with 2009’s Surpassing the Boundaries of Human Suffering. Despite having some of the most god-awful...
View ArticleOrganectomy – Domain of the Wretched
Excellent!!!! I say out loud to myself as a twiddle my fingers with euphoric glee! YES! YES! YES! New Zealand’s Organectomy make their presence felt numerous times over with their first full length...
View ArticleContinuum – The Hypothesis
So if a member of Decrepit Birth (Chase Frasier) decided to go off and have some fun with a side project, take a guess what it would sound like? And what if he recruited the guitarist from Arkaik...
View ArticleKronos – Arisen New Era
Man this is definitely the best Unique Leader release I have heard this year so far. France’s long running Kronos waste no time in beginning their technical death metal assault off the gates with the...
View ArticleGorod – A Maze of Recycled Creeds
I won’t rehash the love already shown by this site to France’s tech death masters Gorod and their prior albums. You can see our previous gushing, by myself and Jordan Itkowitz, right here. The question...
View ArticleSerial Butcher – Brute Force Lobotomy
Well slap my ass and call me Sally, Belgium’s Serial Butcher just surprised the hell right out of me with their sophomore album for Unique Leader Records, Brute Force Lobotomy. Though I had previously...
View ArticleOmnihility – Dominion of Misery
Oregon’s Omnihility burst onto the scene in 2014 with their second record (their Unique Leader debut), Deathscapes of the Subconscious , a pretty damn solid tech death offering with a heavy Origin...
View ArticleZenith Passage, The – Solipsist
Los Angeles’ The Zenith Passage debut Solipsist on presents a forty minute clinic of technical death metal. Featuring former and current members of Fallujah, Oblivion, All Shall Perish and The...
View ArticleFirst Fragment – Dasein
Unique Leader looks to be having the same sort of outlandishly good year as it had in 2014 with the likes of Ohmnihilty, Inherit Disease, Ahtme, Omaphagia, and The Zenith Passage so far, and then...
View ArticleKatalepsy – Gravenous Hour
After shifting from a gore/pure slam band into a more rounded, complete death metal band with Autopsychosis, these Russians made my 2013 year end -list in a year full of great, brutal metal. With their...
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