Album Review: Omnivide – A Tale of Fire

"Tearing my own flesh down to the bone, such pain to erase all I’ve ever known." Omnivide - A Tale of FireMarch 22nd, 2024Progressive / Technical / Symphonic Death MetalIndependently ReleasedMoncton, New Brunswick, Canada Moncton is perhaps an unlikely place to expect to hear the brand of music represented in the mainstream by such bands …

Album Review: Vitriol – Suffer and Become

"Lies will bleed from heaven's body as I chain its flesh to the night." Vitriol - Suffer and BecomeJanuary 26th, 2024Technical Death MetalCentury Media RecordsPortland, Oregon, USA I've always had a bit of a bone to pick with technical death metal. Once I got over the initial "omg this shit is unbelievable" phase of the …

Album Review: Dissimulator – Lower Form Resistance

"Yearn for fictive meaning surged through labour and toil." Dissimulator - Lower Form ResistanceJanuary 26th, 2024Technical Death / Thrash Metal20 Buck SpinMontreal, Quebec, Canada Montreal death thrashers Dissimulator are a new group that have emerged from the frozen northern wastes of Canada's metal capital, and really it should be no surprise that this city and …

Album Review: Archspire – Bleed the Future

"Disintegrate the carotid barrel in our ever grinding wheel of meat". Archspire - Bleed the FutureOctober 29th, 2021Technical Death MetalSeason of MistVancouver, British Columbia, Canada I first listened to Archspire back in 2017 when their third album, Relentless Mutation, dropped, and I remember being blown the absolute fuck away. I had no idea technical death …