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COFFINS – Sinister Oath (2024) | Album / EP Reviews @ Metal Forces Magazine

COFFINSSinister Oath Reprise (2024)Rating: 8/10 For their sixth full-length studio album, Japanese psychopaths Coffins drag your sorry arse into a blender and liquefy your bones to mulch. It was on Valentine’s Day when I heard the wonderful chimes of ‘Spontaneous Rot’ and I just knew that Coffins would once again obliterate all in their path. […]

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CIVEROUS – Maze Envy (2024) | Album / EP Reviews @ Metal Forces Magazine

CIVEROUSMaze Envy 20 Buck Spin (2024)Rating: 8/10 Suffocating. Crushing. Bludgeoning. Heavy. Just a handful of words to describe the second full-length experience from Los Angeles, California-based Civerous. Again we are treated to another garish album cover within this ever burgeoning scene of kaleidoscopic death metal as Lord Foul leads his gang through a batch of […]

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TOXIC CARNAGE – Praying For Demise (2024) | Album / EP Reviews @ Metal Forces Magazine

TOXIC CARNAGEPraying For Demise Self-released (2024)Rating: 7/10 As the band name may suggest, this is a thrash affair created by a Brazilian trio that knows how to blast the listener with crisp riffs, devilish drums and hostile bass. These guys from São Paulo aren’t out there to try to reinvent the wheel, Toxic Carnage just […]

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BLOOD RAGE / CHARRED REMAINS – Blood Remains (2024 Split EP) | Album / EP Reviews @ Metal Forces Magazine

BLOOD RAGE / CHARRED REMAINSBlood Remains (Split EP) Deathstare / Iron Fortress (2024)Rating: 7.5/10 Last year UK death metal act Blood Rage joined forces with Ohio’s Mortuary Ghoul, the result being the impressive Horror Worshipping Death project. And now the Welsh band is back, only this time it is German trio Charred Remains they’ve teamed […]

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ASSYLUM – Far Beyond Madness (2024) | Album / EP Reviews @ Metal Forces Magazine

ASSYLUMFar Beyond Madness Self-released (2024)Rating: 7/10 I’m not sure if the band name is meant to be funny, but anyway, this Chilean act has a strong Slayer vibe with this, their second full-length release. It’s been six years since debut album Terror, but not much has changed; the band remains aggressive in that early-to-mid Slayer-style, […]

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SATURDAY NIGHT SATAN – All Things Black (2024) | Album / EP Reviews @ Metal Forces Magazine

SATURDAY NIGHT SATANAll Things Black Made Of Stone Recordings (2024)Rating: 7.5/10 The quality of the Greek heavy metal scene shows no signs of waning as female-fronted Saturday Night Satan embark upon their journey through dimly lit corridors into musty temples inhabited by ancient forces. Let’s be clear, this Athens-based band offers nothing new and you’ll […]

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IRONBOUND – Serpent’s Kiss (2024) | Album / EP Reviews @ Metal Forces Magazine

IRONBOUNDSerpent’s Kiss Ossuary (2024)Rating: 5.5/10 Conjuring the spirit of a Blaze Bayley fronted Iron Maiden, Polish act Ironbound releases its second full-length platter which is littered with crisp bass lines that Steve Harris would be proud of. One gets the impression that the Iron Maiden nuances are intentional if somewhat derivative and the more the […]

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AARDVARK – Tough Love (2024) | Album / EP Reviews @ Metal Forces Magazine

AARDVARKTough Love Dying Victims Productions (2024)Rating: 8/10 That album cover screams early 80s circa Raven, Shogun etc. and the sound of Tough Love wouldn’t seem out of place back then either. The Melbourne, Australia-based quartet formed in 2021 and have certainly done well with this debut full-length outing. The line-up consists of vocalist / guitarist […]

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ETERNAL – Cryptic Lust (2024) | Album / EP Reviews @ Metal Forces Magazine

ETERNALCryptic Lust Raw Skull Recordz (2024)Rating: 7.5/10 Cryptic Lust is the debut full-length outing from Phoenix, Arizona-based death thrashers Eternal who’ve been in existence since 2021. With Cryptic Lust the song remains the same somewhat as the quartet chows down heavily on those old school influences, especially vintage Death. Vocalist and guitarist Emilio Ortega has […]

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HEMORRHOID – Raw Materials Of Decay (2024) | Album / EP Reviews @ Metal Forces Magazine

HEMORRHOIDRaw Materials Of Decay Extremely Rotten / Headsplit (2024)Rating: 8.5/10 With more gore than you can shake a soggy, severed limb at, Portland, Oregon-based death grind lunatics Hemorrhoid seep out from your plug hole and slither across your floor. After releasing an utterly disgusting demo in 2023 Hemorrhoid returns like an unwelcome STD, only this […]

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