SERENITUS Tranquility In Insanity Night Terrors / Desert Wastelands Productions (2025) Rating: 8/10 Serenitus is a one man project sprouting from Inglewood, California. This death-doom affair is the creation of J.P. (aka James Papson) who crafted the debut album in his home studio and to be honest, it’s quite impressive. After a steady instrumental intro […]
SKYRAID Kingdom Of Thall EP Self-released (2025) Rating: 4/10 Before Canadian band Skyraid decided to put this EP out they really should have recruited a new vocalist. I don’t know if Blaise Van Humbeck is the real name of the singer or whether he is in this for jokes, but his tuneless display drags this […]
SAVAGE ATTACK Terrify The Living EP Bloodpath (2025) Rating: 7/10 Nashville, Tennessee-based Savage Attack is an act that does indeed live up to their name – an old school sounding thrash band with some tight melodies and crossover elements. The biggest shame here is that this four-song EP runs just shy of 13 minutes, but […]
OSSUARYAbhorrent Worship Darkness Shall Rise Productions / Me Saco Un Ojo (2025)Rating: 9/10 There’s no doubt that for the last decade or so that Madison, Wisconsin-based death metallers Ossuary have been one of the bands to watch. After being slightly underwhelmed by the Corpus Offal debut (Corpus Offal) but buoyed by the latest Morbific album […]
HELLCRASH Inferno Crematörio Dying Victims Productions (2025) Rating: 7/10 There’s never been any messing with Italy’s Hellcrash, the trio just leap straight from the frying pan into the fire with their brand of Satan metal. Choking on the fumes created aeons ago by Venom and the likes, Hellcrash continues to buddy up to Lucifer by […]
WITCHROT Soul Cellar Fuzzed And Buzzed / Majestic Mountain (2025) Rating: 7.5/10 Toronto, Ontario-based Witchrot impressed me in 2021 with their debut full-length album Hollow. It was a fuzzed-up and stoned slab of doomy psychedelia led by the mesmeric tones of Lea Reto. Okay, so it wasn’t spellbinding with any sort of originality because, as […]
SEXMAG Sexorcyzm Dying Victims Productions (2025) Rating: 8/10 Polish black thrashers SexMag are a strange bunch, having first caught my attention in 2021 with their Sex Metal EP. It was an organic and vicious ride into the rawest depths, and those elements continue here on what is such a .malicious, old school sounding full-length. I […]
WHIPSTRIKER / VENOMWOLF / GRAVE ALTAR / FLAGELADÖR Four Band Split EP Vicious Witch (2025) Rating: 7/10 Nik at Vicious Witch Records has been spitting out some great metal over the years. He’s always had a thirst for promoting a lot of blackened speed metal and with this devilish four way split EP there’s more […]
CENTAURUS The Regime Self-released (2025) Rating: 7/10 Centaurus is a young thrash metal trio from Toronto in Canada who arrived on the scene in 2021 with their debut EP Injustice Is Served. It’s nice to see the guys back again, although I expected another EP rather than a full-length release. I’m not complaining though, because […]
BLOOD EXPECTORATIONMortality Blast Iron Fortress (2025)Rating: 7/10 Channelling the groove-laden yet punishing death metal of bands such as Benediction, Ukrainian bunch Blood Expectoration finally gets round to unleashing its sophomore full-length outing, 13 years after debut album Disfigured Vision. For a band that’s been hanging around since 2006, it’s no surprise that there have been […]
