Category: Review

  • A review by Gioia – Hand of Doom, the UK death metal power trio, blast through a four-track EP that’s all speed, grit, and unshakeable aggression. From the opener, Necrotic Narcotic, the band channels a feral, first-wave thrash attack: thrashy,…

    HAND OF DOOM – BE STILL AND ROT (EP) Review
  • A review by Gioia – Seventeen years after their last release, Soulfracture roar back to life with a triumphant return, and what a comeback that is. Their new EP, The Leader of the Exploited (out November 7th), is a four-track…

    SOULFRACTURE – The Leader of the Exploited (EP) – Review
  • A Review by Gioia – Oskaria, a three-piece from Bristol, crash onto the doom death metal scene with a debut EP that’s as raw as it is powerful THE CULT OF CTHULHU. Across four tracks, their down-tuned riffs and commanding…

    OSKARIA – Cult of Cthulhu (EP) – Review
  • A review by The brutal Commander. Straight off the four count youre punched in the jaw with the fattest death metal riff, filled with brutal and violent rage.  Grinding at your cranial cavity the heavy guitar tones drill into your…

    Chaos – Preserved Decay (Single) – Review
  • A Review by Gioia –  Desecrator, the UK death metal band that started as a solo project, has unleashed their first EP—and it makes a memorable impact. The opening track, “The Kingdom Will Crumble,” immediately sets an epic atmosphere, drawing…

    DESECRATOR – Invoking Thy Eternal Reign Of Torment (EP) Review
  • A review by The Brutal Commander. I’m always excited to hear new music hit the scene and very pleased to have Scaphist send their debut single in for review. This is ‘BENIGN’. Straight off the bat We are greeted with…

    SCAPHIST – BENIGN (Single) – Review
  • A review by Ded Walls It’s always a treat being exposed to a new release I’ve never heard of, and what an assault on the senses this was! Lucretian’s “Warpath” has all the markings of a promising debut EP for extreme metal. Scorching vocals, chugging guitar…

    LUCRETIAN – Warpath (EP) – Review
  • Mat check out the new EP from the boys in Sidewinder, and catches up with drummer and artist Gaz….  If there is one thing that puzzles me about thrash metal, it is that it exists in a state of paradox.…

    Review – Sidewinder – March Of The Eternal Heretic
  • A review by The Brutal Commander I was very pleased to receive an email from London death dealers CORPSING asking for a review of their EP, VIEWING THE INVISIBLE. Having followed this band for a couple of years now I…

    CORPSING – VIEWING THE INVISIBLE (EP) – Review
  • Hutch checks out the new album from Manchester noise terrorists ‘The Machinist’ here’s what he thinks! A blistering combination of industrial death thrash with added blackness greets you when you hit play on this second album from Manchester’s The Machinist. In…

    Review – The Machinist –Contempt for Life