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 …

Album Review: Revocation – Deathless

"Deathless, the fire burns on and on. Ceaseless, we ride into the dawn. No turning back, we're too far gone." Revocation - DeathlessOctober 14th, 2014Progressive Thrash / Death MetalMetal Blade RecordsBoston, Massachusetts, USA And so for our final entry into Revocation Week on this installment of Discography Deep Dive we dive into Revocation's fifth full …

Album Review: Midnight – Let There Be Witchery

"Possess me eternally, bestow to me szex witchery." Midnight - Let There Be WitcheryMarch 4th, 2022Blackened Heavy Metal / Speed MetalMetal Blade RecordsCleveland, Ohio, USA I've been a fan of Midnight ever since my partner introduced them to me back in 2018. These guys, or more specifically, guy (Athenar), have been steadily pumping out their …

Album Review: The Ocean Collective – Phanerozoic II: Mesozoic / Cenozoic

"You feel so disconnected and yes, I get it, but there is just no point in further confrontation, dysfunctional communication skills." The Ocean Collective - Phanerozoic II: Mesozoic / CenozoicSeptember 25th, 2020Progressive / Sludge MetalMetal Blade RecordsBerlin, Germany When I was a teenager I had a huge phase of getting into sludge metal bands, especially …

Album Review: Rivers of Nihil – The Work

"Oh, no there's no coming back from this, I cease to exist because I'm dreaming black clockwork again". Rivers of Nihil - The WorkSeptember 24th, 2021Progressive Death MetalMetal Blade RecordsReading, Pennsylvania, USA I wasn’t too familiar with Rivers of Nihil before the release of their last record, 2018’s Where Owls Know My Name, which I …

Album Review: Cannibal Corpse – Violence Unimagined

"Surround, kill, devour. The need for food compels. Lupine instincts long suppressed now help them to survive." Cannibal Corpse - Violence UnimaginedApril 16th, 2021Death MetalMetal Blade RecordsTampa, Florida, USA Cannibal Corpse, the Floridian death metal behemoths who at this point are essentially synonymous with the genre, have been lopping the heads off of zombies and …

Album Review: The Black Dahlia Murder – Verminous

Pearlescent maggots dwelling within dead flesh, with carrion I am obsessed. The Black Dahlia Murder - VerminousApril 17th, 2020Melodic Death MetalMetal Blade RecordsWaterford, Michigan, USA I still remember the first time I listened to Nocturnal all the way through, from start to finish. That record was unlike anything I had ever heard up until that …

Album Review: Midnight – Rebirth by Blasphemy

Midnight - Rebirth by Blasphemy January 24th, 2020 Blackened Heavy Metal Metal Blade Records Cleveland, Ohio, USA Midnight, the one man blackened force of crushing evil headed by multi-instrumentalist Athenar, has been languishing in relative underground obscurity ever since their formation in 2003. However, with the release of 2011's Satanic Royalty the band started picking up a …