VoidCeremony – Abditum
Artist: VoidCeremony Country: USA Label: 20 Buck Spin Formats: LP / Cassette tape / CD Year: 2025 Although there is plenty of good Death Metal out there, it is difficult to argue that the genre is not suffering from a…
The Whispering Darkness
Tales From The Underground
The Whispering Darkness
Tales From The Underground
Sadist – Something To Pierce
Artist: Sadist Country: Italy Label: Agonia Records Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2025 Originally debuting as one of the first bands on the cult but sometimes criticized Obscure Plasma Records label, that would later evolve into Avantgarde…
Cryptic Brood – Necrotic Flesh Bacteria
Artist: Cryptic Brood Country: Germany Label: Lycanthropic Chants / Rotted Life Records / War Anthem Records Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2024 When I ordered the band’s ‘Morbid Rite’ demo tape in 2013, I though the Cryptic…
Vile Rites – Senescence
Artist: Vile Rites Country: USA Label: Carbonized Records Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2024 Although this American trio is quite young in age, they seem to be intrigued by the concept of time. The band’s previously released…
Sovereign – “A major creative driver is the paradoxical and symbiotic relationship between man and technology”
In the first month of the year the Dark Descent Released ‘Altered Realities’, the debut album of the Norwegian band Sovereign, really knocked me off my feet. Its genuine blend of Death Metal and Thrash Metal, the late 80’s way,…
Sovereign – Altered Realities
Artist: Sovereign Country: Norway Label: Dark Descent Records Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2024 Apart from a few old-school bands like Cadaver, Mortem and later on, for instance, Zyklon and Blood Red Throne, Norway is not exactly…
Sulphur Aeon – Seven Crowns and Seven Seals
Artist: Sulphur AeonCountry: GermanyLabel: Ván RecordsFormats: LP / CDYear: 2023 The story you are about to read did not come easily. And that starts with memories of Sulphur Aeon. Their debut ‘Swallowed by the Ocean’s Tide’ wasn’t necessarily the first…
Miscreance – Convergence
Artist: Miscreance Country: Italy Label: Season Of Mist Formats: LP / CD Year: 2023 Although I came across the debut of this Italian Miscreance last summer, I did not get around to giving it a few words at the time.…
Dark Millennium – Ashore The Celestial Burden [Reissue]
Artist: Dark MillenniumCountry: GermanyLabel: Floga RecordsFormats: LPYear: 2023 In the later years of the first Death Metal peak, say, the early 90’s there were bands that were pushing the boundaries of the genre. Into different directions, really. Of course, there…
An Abstract Illusion – Woe
Artist: An Abstract IllusionCountry: SwedenLabel: Willowtip RecordsFormats: LP / CDYear: 2022 Although ‘Woe’ is not the first album for these Swedes, it was only since this album that I really got hooked by them. Not that the debut album, or…
Alchemist – Embryonics 90 – 98 [Compilation]
Artist: AlchemistCountry: AustraliaLabel: Relapse RecordsFormats: CDYear: 2006 This might be the most dull-sounding name for a band ever, yet Alchemist is one of the longest running bands from downunder and are gaining little by little the recognition they – are…
Akercocke – Choronzon
Artist: Akercocke Country: United Kingdom Label: Earache Records Formats: CD Year: 2003 Due to the great hype around this band I think most of the people know about this band. From their first release “Rape Of The Bastard Nazarene” album…