BLACK SWORD THUNDER ATTACKBlack Sword Thunder Attack No Remorse (2025)Rating: 8/10 This cult Greek band has one of the most heavy metal monikers ever, and an album cover that looks like it was created in 1985! I had high hopes for this debut album from Black Sword Thunder Attack and fans have certainly waited long […]
MORBIFICBloom Of The Abnormal Flesh Memento Mori / Me Saco Un Ojo / Headsplit (2025)Rating: 8.5/10 The Finnish slime cometh once again as Morbific excretes a third dollop of manky death metal on our shores. Definitely an improvement on the strange tone of the last album (2022’s Squirm Beyond The Mortal Realm), Bloom Of The […]
ANCIENT DEATHEgo Dissolution Profound Lore (2025)Rating: 7.5/10 “Beneath the pillars of creation we fall through the lens of time, seamlessly meandering from the inside… For eons we voyage unseen realms, to reach the plane of ego dissolution”. And so begins the debut full-length opus from Massachusetts death metal band Ancient Death. Since forming in 2019, […]
INOCULATIONActuality Maggot Stomp (2025)Rating: 7/10 Not to be confused with the Brazilian band of the same name, this particular mob hails from Cleveland, Ohio and Actuality is their third full-length experience. Inoculation plays interesting death metal in that the bass is extremely loose and the dual vocal attack is raspy as well as guttural. The […]
TRIBUNALIn Penitence And Ruin 20 Buck Spin (2025)Rating: 8/10 To the sound of creaking coffin lids, stormy nights and the chatter of bats from the belfry, majestic Gothic doom metal cult Tribunal issues its sophomore platter, In Penitence And Ruin. I rated the Vancouver, British Columbia-based band’s 2023 debut The Weight Of Remembrance highly, so […]
SIRENSIn Goat We Trust Self-released (2025)Rating: 7/10 This German outfit began life in the metal world back in 1995 when they issued their demo Approaching The Island, which was followed a year later by the EP Empire Of Clouds. In spite of the mid-to-late 90s being a somewhat tough time for heavy metal bands, Sirens […]
LIQUIFIEDChapters Of Cruelty EP Self-released (2025)Rating: 7/10 You can add the city of Nottingham to the burgeoning UK death metal scene now because festering combo Liquified have just issued their debut EP. Seventeen minutes in length, Chapters Of Cruelty features five tracks – ‘Skinned And Binned’, ‘Cranium Cocktail’, ‘Abhorrent Ascension’, ‘Septic Tank Sarcophagus’ and ‘Skeletal […]
MOONFALLOdes To The Ritual Hills Iron Bonehead Productions (2025)Rating: 6.5/10 Being the creation of Goatprayer (Ceremonial Torture / Archdemon / Darkera etc.) and Black Moon Necromancer (Beherit / Darkera / Funerealm Gloom etc.), Moonfall is a grim sounding black-doom act that wallows within the deepest recesses of the Finnish underground. If you like creepy, atmospheric […]
GARGANTUANAge Ov The Coffin Self-released (2025)Rating: 7.5/10 That’s an eye-catching album cover, this being the second full-length from Springfield, Illinois based act Gargantuan. These guys have been dishing out blackened death metal since 2018 and this new effort is quite the tirade. For 60 minutes the audience is swept up by a truly chaotic storm […]
BENEDICTIONRavage Of Empires Nuclear Blast (2025)Rating: 7.5/10 Has there ever been a steadier band than Benediction? Decades spent in a (to use a football reference) mid-table limbo, the UK death metal mongers comfortably mashed the brains of followers without ever hinting at a push for a (to make another football reference) European place among the […]
