Album Review: The Black Dahlia Murder – Deflorate

"A din of stained glass fragments, cut your flesh to the bone, baptized in black blood, hymen breached with a cross." The Black Dahlia Murder - DeflorateSeptember 15th, 2009Melodic Death MetalMetal Blade RecordsDetroit, Michigan, USA The Black Dahlia Murder Week continues on Discography Deep Dive here on Where Strides the Behemoth with Deflorate, the band's …

Album Review: The Black Dahlia Murder – Nocturnal

"Crawling the walls, through every crack and crevice teems, blackness washing over the windowpanes, painting the buildings in between." The Black Dahlia Murder - NocturnalSeptember 18th, 2007Melodic Death MetalMetal Blade RecordsDetroit, Michigan, USA Here it is. This is the album, the album, that did it for me with extreme music. I still remember the first …

Album Review: The Black Dahlia Murder – Miasma

"This juggernaut of bronze and alcohol, machines of vengeance now are born." The Black Dahlia Murder - MiasmaJuly 12th, 2005Melodic Death MetalMetal Blade RecordsDetroit, Michigan, USA We continue The Black Dahlia Murder week on Discography Deep Dive here at Where Strides the Behemoth with the band's second album, Miasma. Released in 2005, this would be …

Album Review: The Black Dahlia Murder – Unhallowed

"Lead by vampiric hunger, I will to feast upon the bones of the meek, the marrow of my enemies." The Black Dahlia Murder - UnhallowedJune 17th, 2003Melodic Death MetalMetal Blade RecordsDetroit, Michigan, USA I've been a fan of The Black Dahlia Murder for as long as I can remember. Their 2007 record Nocturnal is not …

EP Review: Cloned Apparition – The Coming of Spring

Cloned Apparition - The Coming of SpringFebruary 10th, 2023Grunge / Alternative RockIndependently ReleasedMontreal, Quebec, Canada In my years of traversing the live music scene in Montreal, Quebec I encounter plenty of bands who either strike my fancy, exceed expectations, are just kind of okay, or bore me to tears. In my first few interactions with …

EP Review: Gland – Pissing Contest

"Cured to a consistency to form another masterpiece, this nasty paste accumulates, the sculpture takes its shape." Gland - Pissing ContestJanuary 27th, 2023Death Metal / GrindcoreIndependently ReleasedOttawa, Ontario, Canada Slamming through to your eardrums from the capital city of Canada comes Gland, a four piece outfit of brutal death metal extremists who have come to …

Album Review: Profane Order – One Nightmare Unto Another

Profane Order - One Nightmare Unto AnotherJanuary 27th, 2023War MetalNuclear War Now! ProductionsMontreal, Quebec, Canada Returning from the blighted realms of the frostbitten north, Montreal's Profane Order have sundered forth with another offering of colossal, cacophonous brutality with their sophomore record, One Nightmare Unto Another, and if any of those descriptors made your ears perk …

Album Review: Sanguisugabogg – Homicidal Ecstasy

"I stab my scrotum, incisions, I'll never have sex again." Sanguisugabogg - Homicidal EcstasyFebruary 3rd, 2023Death MetalCentury Media RecordsColumbus, Ohio, USA Returning from the filth from whence they originally came, Columbus, Ohio death metal quartet Sanguisugabogg have returned with their second full length album. Released once again through Century Media Records, this new album, entitled …

Album Review: Haken – Fauna

"It's time to wake up and die or regenerate, you're never gonna retire your power games." Haken - FaunaMarch 3rd, 2023Progressive MetalInsideOut MusicLondon, England, UK Back in 2020 I named Virus, the sixth full length record by English progressive metal band Haken as one of my favourite records of the year, and I eagerly anticipated …

Album Review: Ashenspire – Hostile Architecture

"Always three months to the gutter. Never three months to the peak. Another day to grind your fingers for the simple right to eat." Ashenspire - Hostile ArchitectureJuly 8th, 2022Avant-Garde Black MetalCode666 RecordsGlasgow, Scotland, UK I had never heard of Ashenspire prior to a recommendation from a fellow metal enthusiast over on Metal Twitter, and …