Category Archives: Album Reviews

            Germany’s prevailing Blackened-Thrash horde has returned with their next full-length attack titled Churches Without Saints, and this new infliction means DESASTER for the faltering veil of religious sanctity. It’s the first since Tormentor’s departure, with his longtime role behind the drum kit now fully assumed by Hont, and it shows the essence of classicContinue reading “DESASTER Strikes on Churches Without Saints”

            The masters of mind-bending horror from Australia’s treacherous lands have returned, and what a time it is to be alive as PORTAL have cursed us with two consecutive monstrosities for the year instead of just one. Both are quite distinctive, and while the entity titled Avow carries out the anticipated tendency for suffocating heaviness,Continue reading “PORTAL Doubles the Horror with Avow and Hagbulbia”

            The forces behind a new entity rising from Singapore have now unleashed their debut offering titled Ex Oriente Lux. This brutal exercise in melodic precision, which is named after the phrase meaning “out of the east, light comes,” shows ADARRAK entering the scene with assertive musicianship and songwriting that pushes the outer fringes ofContinue reading “ADARRAK Debuts with Shredding Fury on Ex Oriente Lux”

            An international collaboration known as PALUS SOMNI, a Latin name representing the “swamp of sleep” region of the moon, has reached the material plane along with their debut mass of lunar darkness titled Monarch of Dark Matter. This cosmic manifestation reflects an inherent murkiness with the elaborate melodic configurations of its oppressive riffs, atmosphericContinue reading “PALUS SOMNI Conjures Monarch of Dark Matter”

            The embodiment of evil and chaos returns eight years after unleashing The Howling Spirit to summon a new full-length attack titled La Morsure du Christ. This infernal offering, which dually means “The bite of Christ” and “Christ’s death is certain,” celebrates a declining power of religion inspired by the 2019 burning of Notre-Dame deContinue reading “SETH Returns Triumphant on La Morsure du Christ”

             Metal continues thriving in Czechia as the long-standing INFERNO returns with their eighth full-length opus titled Paradeigma (Phosphenes of Aphotic Eternity). This shadowy manifestation moves further from the traditional sound of their works up through 2009’s Black Devotion, and deeper into the Avant-Garde direction beginning with 2013’s Omniabsence Filled by His Greatness. A hallucinogenicContinue reading “INFERNO Brings Astral Chaos on Paradeigma (Phosphenes of Aphotic Eternity)”

            The last flicker of a dying light is snuffed with the return of this Blackened Death entity from Columbia. It’s been six years since the release of Dekatherion: Ten Years of Hate & Pride, and now FUNEBRIA emerges with their third shadowy manifestation titled Death of the Last Sun. This new offering unleashes theContinue reading “FUNEBRIA Embraces the Shadows on Death of the Last Sun”

            The Death Metal titans have returned with their next slab of crushing brutality titled Violence Unimagined. A new CANNIBAL CORPSE release is always a special occasion, but this one is especially significant for two reasons: It’s the first without long-time guitarist Pat O’Brien since 1996’s Vile, and consequentially, it’s also the first to featureContinue reading “CANNIBAL CORPSE Brutalizes with Violence Unimagined”

            Sinister emanations creep from the UK’s depths as WODE casts their third creation of infernality into our wretched world. This new conjuration expands upon the sound that began with 2016’s self-titled debut and continued on Servants of the Countercosmos a year later. It channels the pioneering spirit of classic Heavy Metal and 80’s elementsContinue reading “WODE Reflects the Abyss on Burn in Many Mirrors”

            It’s logical to consider our existence as a fluke of the random and chaotic nature of the universe, and life as a futile absurdity with imagined purpose. This theory is naturally compatible with Black Metal, and NIHILISM is its Greek philosophical embodiment who, after debuting with the traditional blackened sound of 2019’s Obscurite Noir,Continue reading “NIHILISM Induces Madness on Cataclysme Vers l’Ascendance”