Tag: metal
Full Album Stream: Blood Freak – “Total Destruction of the Human Form”
Gore-obsessed grinding death metal maniacs Blood Freak are slated to issue their sixth full-length album Total Destruction of the Human Form via Horror Pain Gore Death Productions on the most fitting day of…
Read more »Retrospective: Confessor’s “Condemned” still completely unique a quarter-century later
26 years plus a few weeks ago, the phrase “technical doom” was uttered for the first time by a confused hesher somewhere who had bought Confessor‘s Condemned debut for the…
Read more »Full Album Stream: Brandon Seabrook’s Needle Driver – “Needle Driver”
Brandon Seabrook’s Needle Driver are one of those groups that really are almost impossible to classify, because “avant-jazz” and “alternative metal” just don’t do the band justice. Fronted by guitarist Brandon…
Read more »Track Stream/Premiere: Odious Icon’s Planet of Immense Decay
Tomorrow sees the Negative Vibe Records release of Planet of Immense Decay, the debut album from thrash/death newcomers, Odious Icon. The Norwegian three-piece call Oslo home and have made it…
Read more »Full Album Stream: Katla – “Móðurástin”
If hook-laden, melodic metal is your thing, then Katla are your new favorite band. On new album Móðurástin, out October 27 through Prophecy Productions, ex-Sólstafir drummer/visual artist Guðmundur Óli Pálmason and Einar Thorberg Guðmundsson…
Read more »Track Premiere: Black Altar – ‘Tophet’
Formed in Poland in the late 90s and relocating to London soon after, Black Altar have maintained a sporadic presence within black metal over the last two decades, releasing two…
Read more »Full Album Stream: Get “Necrosexual” with Pink Mass
“Existence without self-exploration is torture, and not the good kind.” That could easily be the text on a BDSM-themed inspirational poster, but it’s a written response from New Jersey grind…
Read more »Track Premiere: Throne of Heresy – ‘Liber Secretorum’
Swedish death metal crushers Throne of Heresy are gearing up for the release of their third LP, Decameron, their second effort for The Sign. New single “Liber Secretorum” sees the band settle into…
Read more »Track Premiere: Hooded Menace – ‘Charnel Reflections’
Finnish death/doom overlords Hooded Menace have plotted their return for January 26 with new album Ossuarium Silhouettes Unhallowed. New song “Charnel Relfections” is also the first time the band have broken their silence…
Read more »Track Premiere: Horizon Ablaze – ‘Insidious’
Norwegian avant garde black metallers Horizon Ablaze have gained a new vocalist in Andre Kvebek (ex-1349) and prepared a new album, The Weight of a Thousand Suns. Pleasant and melodic while still retaining an edge,…
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