Unmerciful – Ravenous Impulse
Kansas natives Unmerciful released their first full length album, the awesomely titled Unmercifully Beaten, way back in 2006. After picking it up and listening to it many times over, I knew this would...
View ArticleDeceptionist – Initializing Irreversible Process
Unique Leader has been one of my favorite labels for a long time, and any of their outputs are one that I know I must listen to regardless of the band, as most everything they put out generally...
View ArticleInternal Suffering – Cyclonic Void of Power
This has been a busy year for Unique leader Records with releases like First Fragment, The Zenith Passage, Inanimate Existence, Lord of War, Deceptionist, Destroying the Devoid and Carnophage. With as...
View ArticleCognitive – Deformity
It’s rare I get to have the pleasure of reviewing all the releases from an active band. Cognitive are one such band. I reviewed their ep, The Horrid Swarm and interviewed guitarist Rob Wharton...
View ArticleBeheaded – Beast Incarnate
One of the more revered names in European brutal death metal, and the primary name in Maltese death metal, Beheaded have been around since the mid 90s and have released 4 fine albums of...
View ArticleCondemned – 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 ArticleExocrine – Molten Giant
Bordeaux France’s Exocrine waste no time in laying down some quite nutty technical death metal with their third full length release Molten Giant. “Scorched Human Society” opens with a slight intro into...
View ArticleInternal Bleeding – Corrupting Influence
Back in 2004, New York death metal veterans, Internal Bleeding released Onward to Mecca with then sole original member/drummer Bill Tolley and a bunch of NYDM hired guns. However, Bill was tragically...
View ArticlePyrexia – Unholy Requiem
Long Island’s Pyrexia return with their 5th long player and with a host of new cast members how can CEO, Owner, Manager, Founding member, guitarist, Chris Basile keep it together, you ask? Well the...
View ArticleContinuum – Designed Obsolescence
Unique Leader never ceases to amaze me when it comes to being on top of Californian technical death metal bands. Santa Cruz California death metallers Continuum’s second album Designed Obsolescence is...
View ArticleDawn of Demise – Into the Depths of Veracity
I’ve enjoyed Denmark’s Dawn of Demise for 12 years, 4 albums and 1 EP now, despite absolutely nothing changing in the band’s sound since 2006s Hate Takes its Form, to 2016s The Suffering. Simple,...
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