Corpus Offal – Corpus Offal
Artist: Corpus Offal Country: USA Label: 20 Buck Spin Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2025 “Bring in that debut album”. With these words I closed my review on Corpus Offal’s 2-track demo tape that was released in…
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…
Corpus Offal – Demo 2024
Artist: Corpus Offal Country: USA Label: 20 Buck Spin Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2024 Corpus Offal might be a new band at the Death Metal firmament, but its bandmembers for sure are no stranger to Extreme Metal in general and…
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…
Body Asphyxiation Science – Heresy [EP]
Artist: Body Asphyxiation Science Country: United Kingdom Label: Gurgling Gore / Huangquan Records Formats: Cassette EP / CD EP Year: 2023 The first time I ever heard Body Asphyxiation Science I was drawn to it by its intriguing name, it…
Fabricant – Drudge To The Thicket
Artist: Fabricant Country: USA Label: Profound Lore Records Formats: LP / Cassette tape / CD Year: 2023 After a demo in 2010 and a split CD with Apocryphon in 2013, things got awfully quiet around this American Death Metal band.…
Tomb Mold – The Enduring Spirit
Artist: Tomb Mold Country: Canada Label: 20 Buck Spin Formats: LP / Cassette tape / CD Year: 2023 Although Tomb Mold might not have been the most typical down-tuned Death Metal band from the pack, the band’s rather stationary start…
Miscreance – “Obliveon were a bigger influence on us than Death, for sure”
It was towards the end of last year, on December 6 to be precise, that I asked my former colleague and friend, VM-Underground commander-in-chief Ricardo, if he was interested in Death and Pestilence’s later records besides the usual ‘Scream Bloody…
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.…
Faceless Burial – “Appreciating the vague line between the lucid mind and losing your shit indefinitely”
For a long time, the Death Metal genre seems to have been a fairly static affair. Apart from a few exceptions in the form of bands like Atheist, Cryptopsy and, of course, Death, most of it has been mostly of…
VoidCeremony – Threads Of Unknowing
Artist: VoidCeremonyCountry: USALabel: 20 Buck SpinFormats: LP / Cassette tape / CDYear: 2023 VoidCeremony has been featured here before and each time I was left amazed. The music always delivered an outstanding experience, a wild and extravagant sort Death Metal…
Critical Extravasation – Order Of Decadence
Artist: Critical ExtravasationCountry: RussiaLabel: Redefining Darkness RecordsFormats: LP / CDYear: 2022 On the band’s previous EP, ‘Morbid Existence’, this Russian Death Metal band Critical Extravasation already introduced us to their brand of Technical Death Metal. Our own chief editor of…
Cryptopsy – Ungentle Exhumation [Demo / Re-Release]
Artist: CryptopsyCountry: CanadaLabel: Xtreem RecordsFormats: 10″ EP / CD EPYear: 2021 ‘Ungentle Exhumation’ is undoubtedly one of the most important demos from the Canadian metal scene. It marked the start not only of Cryptopsy, but actually of a whole tradition…
Gorgasm – 96 [Demo / Re-Release]
Artist: Gorgasm Country: USA Label: Brutal Mind Formats: CD Year: 2022 When it comes to the more brutal sort of Death Metal with a distinct technical slant, there are very few bands that come close to the ingenuity of Gorgasm…
SubOrbital – Planetary Disruption
Artist: SubOrbital Country: Germany Label: War Anthem Records Formats: CD Year: 2022 Besides those classic gory and anti-religious themes, there’s more and more bands choosing a different path. Cosmic-themed Death Metal is no longer something that can be considered a…
Body Asphyxiation Science – Gravitational Blood Art [EP]
Artist: Body Asphyxiation ScienceCountry: United KingdomLabel: Gurgling GoreFormats: Cassette EPYear: 2022 Early this year UK Cosmic Death Metal duo Body Asphyxiation Science released a pretty good split tape with Trench Foot, but also this ‘Gravitational Blood Art’ cassette tape EP.…
Altars – Ascetic Reflection
Artist: AltarsCountry: AustraliaLabel: Everlasting Spew RecordsFormats: LP / CDYear: 2022 Following the bands’ debut album, the great Blood Harvest Records released ‘Paramnesia’ from 2013, Altars mostly lay dormant for about a decade. That means that having the band returned to…
Body Asphyxiation Science / Trench Foot – Intergalactic Gore [Split]
Artist: Body Asphyxiation Science / Trench FootCountry: United KingdomLabel: Stump Grinder RecordsFormats: Split cassette tapeYear: 2022 Stump Grinder Records is serving us with a split tape with two fairly unknown UK Death Metal acts, who were both featured on the…
Arise From Worms – Arise From Worms [EP]
Artist: Arise From WormsCountry: USALabel: Self-ReleasedFormats: 12″ EP, CD EPYear: 2022 I am always a bit allergic to the term ‘supergroup’, not only because it is often an exaggerated representation of reality, but even more so because it is often musically hugely disappointing. Best example…