Organectomy – Existential Disconnect
I have been looking forward to reviewing this since reviewing last year’s reissue of their 2017 album Domain of the Wretched. I was highly impressed with the meticulousness of these sick slamming...
View ArticleDistant – Tyrannotophia
Down tempo (or lazy eyed deathcore as I lovingly call it), is one of my guilty pleasures. It takes the best part of deathcore, the breakdowns, and beats them to death repeatedly for an entire album...
View ArticleBrand of Sacrifice – God Hand
Believe it or not, deathcore is having a pretty good year in 2019: Enterprise Earth, When Plagues Collide, Ingested, Angelmaker, Organectomy (though arguably more slam) have dropped solid releases and...
View ArticleDisentomb – The Decaying Light
The sophomore effort from Australia’s Disentomb, Misery was a very late discovery and addition to my 2014 year end list, but that won’t be an issue with the band’s stellar third effort, as I’ve had...
View ArticleMurder Made God – Endless Return
Greece’s Murder Made God have been on my radar since their 2013 Brutal Bands Release Irreverence. If you are not familiar with the style of death metal Murder Made God play I would describe as quite...
View ArticleXenobiotic – Mordrake
When one who is familiar with the label sits down with a Unique Leader release, there are a few items which come to mind. Firstly, this is going to likely be technical death metal. There will be...
View ArticleAfterbirth – Four Dimensional Flesh
I was honored to be a guest singer on the debut Afterbirth album-The Time Traveler’s Dilemma, on the song “Timeless Formless”, released in 2017. The album just plain rules and Afterbirth return with...
View ArticleI Am Destruction – Nascency
I decided to check out the promo from Texas’s I Am Destruction, as it was a Unique Leader release, and that’s usually a fire hit. Also, this band and features guitarist Paul Dundas, who used to play is...
View ArticleKatalepsy – Terra Mortuus Est
I have been following Moscow’s Katalepsy since their Musick Brings Injuries ep. Debut album Autopsychosis in 2013 became one of my favorite brutal slam death metal albums. That high quality output...
View ArticleCordyceps – Betrayal
Based out of Las Vegas Nevada comes Cordyceps with their debut brutal death metal album, Betrayal. 3 years ago they released a nifty 5 song ep Black Blood Butchery or B to the third power and it was a...
View ArticleIngested – Where Only Gods May Tread
I own the Ingested albums, and I kinda liked 2018s Level Above Human, 2015s The Architect of Extinction, and 2009s Surpassing the Boundaries of Human Suffering. But I have never really loved the Brits...
View ArticleStillbirth – Revive The Throne
While not overly familiar with Germany’s long-running brutes Stillbirth, I’ve checked some of their releases via promotional material in the past but never been really impressed to put pen to paper...
View ArticleAhtme – Mephitic
Well this definitely on my list for most improved tech death bands of 2020. Kansas City Missouri’s Ahtme return with their 2nd full length album Mephitic. I must admit I was a bit ho-hum regarding...
View ArticleCytotoxin – Nuklearth
Jesus, Unique Leader is having/had a fucking ridiculous summer of releases. From the reliable, slammy duo of Ingested and Katalepsy to the vastly improved duo of Athme and Exocrine to the monstrous...
View ArticleKorpse – Insufferable Violence
The Netherlands have quite a varying style of death metal genres and brutal slam death metal act Korpse were kind of a free-agent last year after releasing 2 prior albums. Their 2013 self-titled debut...
View ArticleBound in Fear – Eternal EP
Unique Leader has been heavy on the deathcore/downtempo so far in early 2021 with 2 conceptual EPs from Distant (both a bit underwhelming), Australia’s to To The Grave and their debut, Humanity’s Last...
View ArticleHumanity’s Last Breath – Välde
Like many, I’ve been waiting on a new Vildhjarta album for almost a decade now as the band has yet to release anything other than a few teasers and track or an EP since 2011’s, Masstaden. But little...
View ArticleMental Cruelty – A Hill To Die Upon
In the promo materials, Mental Cruelty is described as “haunting death metal.” As I’ve yet to be visited by any ghostly apparitions, I call shenanigans! However, when it comes to what style of music...
View ArticleOsiah – Loss
Every time I’m ready to signal the death knell for deathcore, along comes a release that kinda gets me excited about the genre again, whether it’s a veteran band like Despised Icon coming back from the...
View ArticleDistant – Aeons of Oblivion
I rather enjoyed 2019s Tyrannotophia, from this Dutch downtempo band, as it ended up being one of the better deathcore/ downtempo releases I have still heard. Then I found the follow-up EP, Dawn of...
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