PIT LORD Massive Grilling Capacity Self-released (2025) Rating: 6.5/10 Five years after their hilariously titled debut full-length Seasonings In The Abyss, and 2022 follow up Gallery Of Skewered Swine, Davenport, Iowa-based duo Pit Lord returns with more barbeque obsessed death metal. With a take on the title of Dismember’s 1995 album Massive Killing Capacity, this […]
CLAIRVOYANCE Chasm Of Immurement Carbonized (2025) Rating: 8/10 I woke up to a carpet of cosmic dust and realised then that it was a sign that Clairvoyance had re-emerged from the icy shadows with their debut full-length album, Chasm Of Immurement. Forged within the deep subterranean tunnels of Warsaw in Poland in 2019, Clairvoyance retains […]
FILTH Time To Rot Me Saco Un Ojo / Rotted Life (2025) Rating: 8/10 I’ve waited for this for three long years, a debut record from a Swedish death metal band that doesn’t sound like the usual Swedish stuff. Forget HM-2 buzzsaw generic bullshit, Time To Rot is, as the band moniker suggests, utter filth. […]
STARFORCE Beyond The Eternal Night Self-released (2025) Rating: 8.5/10 Nice, if somewhat eye-frazzling cover art adorns this debut full-length from Mexican metallers StarForce. Since 2021 the band have issued two split projects, an EP (The Universe Is Mine) and several singles, so it only seemed right that the next move should be an album. After […]
BLACK ROSE The Mirror Sleaszy Rider (2025) Rating: 8.5/10 I thought this might be the anticipated return of the New Wave Of British Heavy Metal legends who impressed so greatly on their 2022 WTF return. Alas no, but this is instead a new release from another band with an admirable history. Having formed in 1990, […]
DISEMBODIMENT Spiral Crypts Everlasting Spew (2025) Rating: 7/10 Garish, ghoulish n’ gory are words which spring to mind here as Spiral Crypts is unleashed upon the void like a smothering virus. It’s the debut full-length splatter platter of an unhealthy combo from Sherbrooke in Québec, Canada who like to spit out titles such as ‘Larval’ […]
BLOODSTORM Pollution Of Truth EP NeathPop (2025) Rating: 5/10 These Spaniards are relatively new to the game of thrash metal and Pollution Of Truth is their introductory EP. The Valencia-based band started out in 2021 as Rehco but changed their name two years later. The current line-up features Marco San Segundo (vocal and lead guitar), […]
DETRUNCATION Putrefied Evulsions (2025) Detruncation’s first demo, Putrefied Evulsions, is one of the best so far this year. This Romania-based duo of vocalist / guitarist Uriel Aguillon (Putred / Morbicus / Reveler / Vorus / Necrorite) and bassist Corina Elena (Putred / Reveler / Vorus) keep everything deathly in the four songs on offer here. […]
CEREBRAL CURSE Promo ’25 (2025) Churning within the bowels of Catalonia, Cerebral Curse is a new demented death-doom duo that is responsible for this heap of horror. Simply entitled Promo ’25, this is one of my favourite demo releases of the year. Beginning like some sort of primordial grind riddled with disease, the three-song demo […]
TEMORA Demo (2025) Wow, this thing sounds rough n’ punky n’ primitive and it’s the debut demo from Czechia filth lickers Temora. Five tracks and 15 minutes long, this demo could be perceived as death metal, but there’s a raw punkniess too as the young quartet launches into the decomposed churning of ‘Koroze’. The bass […]
