CANCERInverted World Peaceville (2025)Rating: 5/10 After the zombified stodge of their 1990 debut platter To The Gory End, British death metallers Cancer appeared to be going places by the time their sophomore outing Death Shall Rise hit the racks in 1991. Damn, the Shropshire shrews even managed to enlist the talents of American axeman James […]

TEASER SWEETNight Stalker High Roller (2025)Rating: 8/10 If these Swedish hard rockers don’t get the success they deserve this time round then there’s something seriously wrong with the rock world. It pains me to say it but Teaser Sweet have been grafting away for over a decade, resulting in a fourth full-length album, yet very […]

CAUSTIC WOUNDGrinding Mechanism Of Torment Profound Lore (2025)Rating: 8/10 As the title suggests, the sophomore full-length outing from these Seattle, Washington-based lunatics is no sunny walk in the park. If you’ve never experienced the force that is Caustic Wound then prepare yourself for a very violent rollercoaster ride which ends in your death. Grinding Mechanism […]

PHANTOMTyrants Of Wrath High Roller (2025)Rating: 8/10 After a groovy Gothic organ intro, Mexican headbangers Phantom embark on their sophomore full-length outing, Tyrants Of Wrath. There was somewhat of a buzz when the clan released their 2023 debut, Handed To Execution, although last year’s EP, Transylvanian Nightmare, was less impactful. Even so, Phantom – in […]

MACHINE HEADUnatøned Nuclear Blast (2025)Rating: 3/10 When Machine Head released their debut album, Burn My Eyes, back in 1994 I honestly thought I was hearing a band that would save the 90s. However, their rapid capitulation into trend-hopping nu-metal wannabes was laughable to the point that when I questioned the band’s credibility in an online […]

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 […]

ARCHDRUIDArchdruid Self-released (2025)Rating: 7/10 The 2021 debut demo from New Hampshire act Archdruid impressed me greatly, and I still often revisit its doomy delights. It’s good to see the band has finally issued a full-length outing and that vocalist Emily Sordid Waltz is up to her old tricks again, weaving tales of magic and folklore […]

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 […]