DYING REALM Siege The Walls EP Cavernous / Dry Cough (2026) Rating: 5/10 Charging from Birmingham in England, Dying Realm is the latest clan of death metal cavemen to brandish clubs and cave your head in with their brand of war-torn noise. Just a touch more refined then many of the gore-obsessed UK death metal […]

ACCUSER Taste Of Steel EP Self-released (2026) Rating: 7.5/10 I really don’t understand it when new bands take the moniker of a well-established band. In this instance it’s Arlington, Texas-based thrashers Accuser. Surely, when this combo came up with their band name they knew of veteran German act Accu§er? Or maybe the Texan quintet had […]

CROWSBLOOD Bridge To Golgotha Macho (2026) Rating: 8/10 With their brand of dark metal, Bradford, England-based clan Crowsblood returns from the mist with Bridge To Golgotha, a stirring debut full-length composition of frustratingly short duration (35 minutes) and featuring two songs (‘The Murder Of Crows’ and ‘Gallows Of Souls’) which appeared on their 2024 The […]

PUTRISECT Putrisect EP Rotted Life (2026) Rating: 8/10 Upon hearing the song ‘Ritual Sacrifice’ I began thinking about how the role of the Incantation template plays a part in so much death metal. However, what’s interesting about this Baltimore, Maryland-based quintet is how they twist the narrative by implementing their own brutal and grotesque equations. […]

MORE Destructor Warhead Music LLP (2026) Rating: 6.5/10 Responsible for two of the finest yet most underrated albums of the 80s – Warhead (1981) and Blood & Thunder (1982) – British band More should have been far more successful than they were, but instead fizzled out shortly afterwards. Since then the band, with a revolving […]