Coffins – Sinister Oath

Artist: Coffins Country: Japan Label: Relapse Records Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2024 Although ‘Sinister Oath’ is the band’s sixth full-length and I have picked up quite a few of their smaller releases over the years, it…

Incantation – Unholy Deification

Artist: IncantationCountry: USALabel: Relapse RecordsFormats: LP / Cassette tape / CDYear: 2023 When a new Incantation album drops you just know you’re in for a treat. The musical formula of the band hasn’t drastically changed over the past decades, and why…

Sumerlands – Dreamkiller

Artist: SumerlandsCountry: USALabel: Relapse RecordsFormats: LP / Cassette tape / CD Year: 2022 I can’t deny a bit of scepticism when I first heard of a new Sumerlands record. Not because the debut was bad. On the contrary, it was…

Obituary – Dying Of Everything

Artist: Obituary Country: USA Label: Relapse Records Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2022 Though a new Obituary record is commonly regarded as a moment of joy to all Old School Death Metal aficionados, I kind of lost…

Obituary – Slowly We Rot – Live & Rotting

Artist: Obituary Country: USA Label: Relapse Records Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2022 Anyone who has ever seen an Obituary live show will agree that these veterans of American Death Metal sure know how to put on…

Obituary – Cause Of Death – Live Infection

Artist: Obituary Country: USA Label: Relapse Records Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2022 Like the simultaneously released ‘Slowly We Rot – Live & Rotting’ live record, this ‘Cause Of Death – Live Infection’ is also a recorded…

Exhumed – To The Dead

Artist: ExhumedCountry: USALabel: Relapse RecordsFormats: LP / Cassette tape / CDYear: 2022 Even though you’ve just started reading this, I’m sure you’re not really curious about how this new Exhumed album sounds. After all, you already know that. Ever since the band’s…

Leng Tch’e – Marasmus

Artist: Leng Tch’e Country: Belgium Label: Relapse Records Formats: CD Year: 2007 Belgium’s Leng Tch’e return with their fourth album, and second with Dutch cesspool-throated Boris the Bastard. They have entitled it ‘Marasmus’, a term used to describe the downfall…

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…

Regurgitate – Deviant

Artist: Regurgitate Country: Sweden Label: Relapse Records / Restrain Records Formats: CD / LP Year: 2003 It remains a tricky job, writing a review about bands like Regurgitate. After all, what should you write about such a band? An introduction…

Exhumed – Anatomy Is Destiny

Artist: ExhumedCountry: USALabel: Relapse RecordsFormats: LP / CDYear: 2003 This is without any doubt one of the CDs I’ve been looking for since the first day of this year. The new Exhumed, goddamnit! I’ve been following the band for a…

Mortician – Darkest Day Of Horror

Artist: Mortician Country: USA Label: Relapse Records Formats: CD Year: 2003 You have brute, more brutal and most brutal. And Mortician doesn’t really even fit into the latter category. Mortician is therefore a band that is hardly unknown to any…