Corpsessed – Succumb to Rot

Artist: CorpsessedCountry: FinlandLabel: Dark Descent RecordsFormats: LP / Cassette tape / CDYear: 2022 With Death Metal bands like Abhorrence, Amorphis, Demilich, Demigod, Purtenance, Funebre and Convulse the Finns do have quite a legacy, but around the turn of 2010 a…

Therion – Beyond Sanctorum [Re-Release]

Artist: TherionCountry: SwedenLabel: Hammerheart RecordsFormats: LP / CDYear: 2022 The second part of Hammerheart Records’ Therion reissues, after the great ‘Time Shall Tell’ 12” EP, is the bands’ second album ‘Beyond Sanctorum’. Indeed, skipping their great debut LP ‘Of Darkness…’…

Therion – Lepaca Kliffoth [Re-Release]

Artist: TherionCountry: SwedenLabel: Hammerheart RecordsFormats: LP / CDYear: 2022 The musical voyage of Therion, that led them from a pure, but atypical Death Metal band to a multi-layered and creative musical chameleon has been spread over four albums, with each…

Therion – Time Shall Tell [EP / Re-Release]

Artist: TherionCountry: SwedenLabel: Hammerheart RecordsFormats: 12″ EPYear: 2022 Introducing a band like Therion seems a little pointless as they are among the most successful bands on the Nuclear Blast roster – for a quarter of a century now. Much of…

Master – Demo 1985 [Demo / Re-release]

Artist: Master Country: USA Label: Xtreem Music Formats: 10″ EP Year: 2020 It is almost impossible and perhaps even morally wrong to leave Master’s legendary 1985 demo-tape out of a series that is called ’10 Inches Of Deathcult’, in which…

Tenebro – L’inizio Di Un Incubo

Artist: Tenebro Country: Italy Label: Xtreem Music Formats: LP / Cassette tape / CD Year: 2022 After a demo tape (reissued on 7” vinyl by Seven Metal Inches) and a 3-track debut EP which was initially only released on cassette…

Adramelech – Grip of Darkness [Reissue]

Artist: AdramelechCountry: FinlandLabel: Xtreem MusicFormats: 10″ EPYear: 2020 Finnish Death Metal, or ‘Finndeath’ as they like to call it, always had something special compared to bands from other countries who had a lively Death Metal scene. They often had a…

Paganizer – Beyond The Macabre

Artist: Paganizer Country: Sweden Label: Transcending Obscurity Records Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2022 Ah! Rogga Johansson again found some time to record yet another album, this time with Paganizer. It sometimes just puzzles me how some…

Incantation – Demo 1990 [Demo / Re-Release]

Artist: Incantation Country: USA Label: Xtreem Music Formats: 10″ EP Year: 2020 What can be said about Incantation’s debut demo from 1990 that hasn’t been said before? It has not only been tape traded a zillion times back in the…

Thanatos – Omnicoitor [Demo / Re-Release]

Artist: ThanatosCountry: The NetherlandsLabel: Xtreem MusicFormats: 10″ EPYear: 2020 A series that is called ’10 Inches Of Deathcult’ would not be complete without Hollands’ self-proclaimed initiators of Dutch Death Metal. Though the band was already founded as early as 1984…

Supremative – Goat Blood Communion

Artist: Supremative Country: Spain Label: Crimson Tide Productions Formats: LP Year: 2022 Although I already picked up the reissue of Supremative’s first demo on 7”, which was released by Blood Harvest Records back in 2016, I still had to check…

Acheron – Satanic Victory [EP / Reissue]

Artist: AcheronCountry: USALabel: Funeral Industries / VIC RecordsFormats: 12″ EP / CD EP Year: 2022 There aren’t many American Death Metal bands about which opinions are as divided as Acheron. There’s a lot of haters and a lot of fans.…

God Dethroned – The Christhunt [Re-Release]

Artist: God Dethroned Country: The Netherlands Label: VIC Records Formats: LP / CD Year: 2022 Before God Dethroned gained worldwide fame with their brilliant ‘The Grand Grimoire’ and ‘Bloody Blasphemy’ albums in the second half of the 90’s, for which…

Seep – Hymns To The Gore

Artist: Seep Country: USA Label: Extremely Rotten Productions / Gurgling Gore Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2022 After an EP, Vomitus, the sole member behind Seep, returns with a full-length album which sees the gore of day…

Hearse – Traipse Across the Empty Graves

Artist: Hearse Country: USA Label: Sinistrari Records Formats: CD Year: 2022 Not being aware of their reuniting in 2019, it came to me as a surprise to see Hearse surface with a new release. ‘Traipse Across The Empty Graves’ is…

Asphyx – Crush the Cenotaph [Demo / Reissue]

Artist: AsphyxCountry: The NetherlandsLabel: Xtreem MusicFormats: 10″ EPYear: 2020 During the late 80’s and early 90’s the Dutch Death Metal scene had a lot of great bands to offer. Many of those bands recorded full-length albums and gained their fame in their respective careers. But…

Terrorizer – Demo ’87 [Demo / Re-Release]

Artist: TerrorizerCountry: USALabel: Xtreem MusicFormats: 10″ EPYear: 2020 During the second half of the 80’s Terrorizer, along with peers like Repulsion, Carcass and Napalm Death propelled extreme music into whole new levels extremity by pushing the boundaries that were thought…

Pyrexia – Liturgy Of Impurity [Demo / Re-Release]

Artist: Pyrexia Country: USA Label: Xtreem Music Formats: 10″ EP Year: 2020 Around the 90’s American Death Metal bands had a real special thing going on. Other than their European counterparts they were much more vile and brutal. Especially New…

Embrace Of Thorns – The Pantheon I [EP]

Artist: Embrace Of ThornsCountry: GreeceLabel: Iron Bonehead ProductionsFormats: 7″ EPYear: 2022 Quite out of the blue comes this nice 7” EP from these Greek veterans with a career spanning over two decades already. During this long career they have delivered…

Immolation – Acts of God

Artist: Immolation Country: USA Label: Nuclear Blast Records Formats: LP /Cassette tape / CD Year: 2022 There are only few bands that have been around for about 35 years and are still as relevant today as they were when releasing…

AngelBlast – Throne of Ashes [EP]

Artist: AngelBlastCountry: SwedenLabel: Edged Circle ProductionsFormats: 7″ EPYear: 2022 As a two-piece AngelBlast released a 7” in 2019, which marked the start of the band. The three songs on that 7” showcased a band in its early stages, but potential…

Faceless Burial – Speciation

Artist: Faceless BurialCountry: AustraliaLabel: Dark Descent Records / Desiccated Productions / Me Saco un Ojo RecordsFormats: LP / Cassette tape / CDYear: 2022 With their debut album, ‘Grotesque Miscreation’ from 2017 and its follow-up EP that appeared a year later,…

Mutilator – Live At Lemmy’s Bar

Artist: Mutilator Country: Brazil Label: Hellven Records Formats: LP / CD Year: 2021 When you talk about classic Brazilian Thrash Metal albums, you automatically end up with Sarcófago’s ‘INRI’, Sepultura’s ‘Morbid Visions’ and Mutilator’s ‘Immortal Force’. Of course, they were…

Ceremonial Oath – Carpet [Reissue]

Artist: Ceremonial OathCountry: SwedenLabel: VIC RecordsFormats: CDYear: 2020 After having paved the way for many bands that would follow and further perfect Ceremonial Oath’s blueprint for the melodic Gothenburg Death Metal sound with their amazing debut album, ‘The Book Of…

Mortuous – Upon Desolation

Artist: Mortuous Country: USA Label: Carbonized Records / Extremely Rotten Productions Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2021 In a scene that is getting more and more crowded with bands that take their major influence from what we…

Coffins / Depression – Split LP

Artist: Coffins / DepressionCountry: Japan / GermanyLabel: Hells Headbangers Records / Headsplit RecordsFormats: Split LP / Split cassette tape / Split CDYear: 2020 Two of Death Metal’s most prolific bands teaming up on one split release. What can possibly go…

Macabre – Carnival Of Killers

Artist: Macabre Country: USA Label: Nuclear Blast Records Formats: LP / CD Year: 2020 Macabre has always been a band that is unique in so many ways. Not only because of the obvious, their characteristic sound and lyrical content, but…

Massacre – Aggressive Tyrant [Demo / Re-Release]

Artist: Massacre Country: USA Label: Xtreem Music Formats: 10″ EP Year: 2020 What we’ve got here is the third EP in the “10 Inches Of Deathcult” series, in which Xtreem Music presents a slap of legendary early recordings from groundbreaking…

Mortician – Demo #1 1990 [Demo / Re-Release]

Artist: Mortician Country: USA Label: Xtreem Records Formats: 10″ EP Year: 2020 This 10” EP is the second installment in the “10 Inches Of Deathcult”-series, in which the first one was Sinister’s “Perpetual Damnation”-demo pressed onto 10 inches of wax.…

Sinister – Perpetual Damnation [Demo / Re-Release]

Artist: Rotting Christ Country: The Netherlands Label: Xtreem Music Formats: 10″ EP Year: 2020 Xtreem Music has launched a new series of old recordings by (semi) legendary Death Metal bands on 10” vinyl records. The list of announced bands to…

Benediction – Scriptures

Artist: BenedictionCountry: UKLabel: Nuclear BlastFormats: LP / Cassette tape / CDYear: 2020 May 2019 marked the moment that vocalist Dave Hunt left Benediction to concentrate on his PhD studies and his other band Anaal Nathrakh. For many of the dedicated…

Bombs Of Hades – Carnivores [EP]

Artist: Bombs Of Hades Country: Sweden Label: Blood Harvest Formats: 7″ EP Year: 2008 I should’ve known better, really. I had this 7” EP here for quite some time before I started listening to it, the cover artwork for this…

Autopsy – Horrific Obsession [EP]

Artist: AutopsyCountry: USALabel: Peaceville RecordsFormats: 7″ EPYear: 2009 These are actually the most critical releases. Bands that always claimed not to go for any reunion and then … out of the blue, come up with new material. Still it is…

DoomVS – Dead Words Speak

Artist: DoomVSCountry: SwedenLabel: Firedoom MusicFormats: CDYear: 2008 Since 2004 the rather strangely named project Doom:VS is Johan Ericson’s way to keep himself busy. Besides his main band, Draconian, he finds the time to get his solo project going as well. And with “Dead Words…

Bloody Sign – The 3rd Escape [EP]

Artist: Bloody SignCountry: FranceLabel: Blood HarvestFormats: 7″ EPYear: 2008 Though I always thought that these French guys of Bloody Sign weren’t the best in their genre, they still know how to get their music spread. Numerous splits and underground releases are available and are actually…

Nunslaughter – Hell On Holland [7″ EP]

Artist: Nunslaughter Country: USA Label: Autopsy Kitchen Records / Battle Kommand Records Formats: 7″ EP Year: 2008 This is another one from the ‘Hell On…’-series, it is rumoured that this is the last one to be released, so, finally the…

Obituary – Left To Die [EP]

Artist: Obituary Country: USA Label: Candlelight Records Formats: CD EP Year: 2008 Obituary’s new one is a four-track EP (not counting the video-track for ‘Evil Ways’, taken from their last album) which will most likely closes the gap between the…

God Macabre – The Winterlong [Re-Release]

Artist: God Macabre Country: Sweden Label: Blood Harvest Formats: LP Year: 2008 As with many other great Swedish death metal releases, “The Winterlong” by God Macabre was a bit overlooked at the time of its release and failed to get…

Bloodstone – Hour Of The Gate [Compilation]

Artist: BloodstoneCountry: SwedenLabel: Blood HarvestFormats: LPYear: 2008 As every death metal fan from the very first days or any vinyl collector would confirm, old school Swedish death metal is be experienced on vinyl exclusively. But, unfortunately not all great albums have been issued on the…

Magnus – Scarlet Slaughter [Re-Release]

Artist: Magnus Country: Poland Label: Blood Harvest Formats: LP Year: 2007 Sometimes you walk into something that you never heard of and surprises you in a pleasant way. This was the case when I got a package through the post…

Necrovation – Breed Deadness Blood

Artist: Necrovation Country: Sweden Label: Blood Harvest Formats: LP / CD Year: 2008 For the true followers of the Swedish death metal scene the name of Necrovation will definitely ring a bell. The band already released a cool demo-tape, a…

Japanische Kampfhörspiele – Rauchen Und Yoga

Artist: Japanische Kampfhörspiele Country: Germany Label: Bastardized Recordings Formats: LP / CD Year: 2007 Though this German band has one of the least inviting band names ever, they are not as bad as their name would suggest. But, that means…

Colosseum – Chapter 1: Delirium

Artist: ColosseumCountry: FinlandLabel: Firedoom MusicFormats: CDYear: 2007 With Colosseum Firebox seem to have returned to their heaviest roots, and that is something that I embrace with pure joy – as far doom goes hand-in-hand with such a word. Though the…