GORGUTSObscura Olympic Recordings (1998)Rating: 9.5/10 Hard to believe that as metal succumbed to the grunge invasion in the 90s, that death metal would soldier on, damaging crops in its wake and leaving no prisoners, and most certainly not bowing to any trends. Canada’s Gorguts may have begun life in 1989 as a rather formulaic death […]

SLAYERDiabolus In Musica American Recordings (1998)Rating: 4/10 Ever since the murky days of their Show No Mercy debut in 1983, I’d been a loyal Slayer fan. Through the gloomy glory of Hell Awaits (1985) to the ferocity of Reign In Blood (1986), and from the slower, more ominous dark clouds of South Of Heaven (1988) […]