Tag: Death Metal
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Warmen – Here for None Review
No Salieri but a nice throwback to both Children of Bodom and Norther. Expect group choruses, power metal drumming, and a lot of shredding leading to solos from both keys and guitar. Result is a record that borrows a lot from Bodom‘s I Worship Chaos (2015) or Norther records with Lindroos, specially Death Unlimited (2004).…
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Orbit Culture – Descent Review
Highly doubt this is the future of MDM. Orbit Culture‘s new album still includes interesting ideas, synths, a modern atmosphere that falls under an industrial-groove blended umbrella. Unfortunately not all the grooves are interesting making Descent just too generic. The main problem is however the production, or more concretely the mastering. Everything sounds completely bloated…
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Cattle Decapitation – Terrasite Review
Whether you love or hate them, Cattle Decapitation are the present and future of death extreme metal. While still melodic as the much discussed Death Atlas (2019), the new LP from the Californians sounds groovier and is more riff oriented. There’s brutal death, melodeath and also melodic black, always technical and with traces of core…
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Gorod – The Orb Review
The Orb is full of groovy technical death with crazy riffing. The Frenchmen manage once again to compile a varied, well-written album with many different parts per track without falling into making them sound awkward or different songs glued together. Listening again to the singles “Breeding Silence” and “Victory” just confirms the statement, making them…
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Necropanther – Betrayal Review
Necropanther walk the thin line between melodic death and blackened thrash in a sound that is best described by citing some of their influences and sound-alikes such as early Revocation or Skeletonwitch. Blazing fast and catchy because of the guitar work, both in rhythm and lead guitars, this is not as fresh as Xoth but…
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Frozen Dawn – The Decline of the Enlightened Gods Review
The trio from Madrid success delivering a great melodeath-black record that drinks directly from Dissection and Necrophobic -being the closer a cover of theirs-, or more specifically from Dissection‘s copycat band Naglfar circa 2003, when they released Sheol. What’s interesting in The Decline of the Enlightened Gods is both songwrittng and production are more interesting…
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Insomnium – Anno 1696 Review
Anno 1696 is far more varied that their previous endeavor, and maybe because of that, a little less memorable. There’s time for everything from melancholic ballads to blast beats, with the guitar trio Markus Vanhala / Ville Friman / Jani Liimatainen being a clear highlight, not to mention Niilo Sevänen’s distinctive harsh vocals. What’s new?…
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Tribal Gaze – The Nine Choirs Review
Sometimes less is more. Tuned down guitars almost matching the bass, someone who can beat the hell out of the drums, screaming gutturals and a good collection of riffs and breakdowns. Old-school death metal with hardcore-borrowed breakdowns. That pretty much sums up what Tribal Gaze are all about. Yes, there’s a lot of bands doing…
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Fugitive – Maniac Review
Not much to say here: While Fugitive’s music can be described as standard old-school thrash with a crossover approach, their debut EP is grooving enough to make you headbang through its whole length. Riff driven, the key point is the chemistry between the Blake Ibanez (Power Trip) / Victor Gutierrez (Impalers) guitar duo Seth Gilmore’s…