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: Cave Sermon – Divine Laughter

"My grotesque identity heals, some parts are cauterized, other parts are sewn together for the first time." Cave Sermon - Divine LaughterJanuary 18th, 2024Post Metal / Progressive / Dissonant Death MetalIndependently ReleasedMelbourne, Australia Cave Sermon is the one person extreme metal project of one Charlie Park from Melbourne, Australia, and its a project I only …

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: Gorod – The Orb

"We are not that prone to the fear of destroying." Gorod - The OrbMarch 10th, 2023Technical Death MetalIndependently ReleasedBordeaux, France Gorod are a pretty legendary band within the realm of technical death metal. Active since 2005 the band has released seven full length albums, with The Orb being the latest. They're known for their combination …

Album Review: Ulthar – Helionomicon

"Wrapped octagons... of perpetual spinning angles... enter seven spectral points". Ulthar - HelionomiconFebruary 17th, 2023Technical / Blackened Death Metal20 Buck SpinOakland, California / Alexandria, Virginia / Portland, Oregon, USA Continuing with the theme from yesterday, we now move on to the second album released by Ulthar in 2023, Helionomicon, the second part of what could …

Album Review: Ulthar – Anthronomicon

"Thirsting dust absorb the verdant, light the pyre to banish snakes, writhe inside the hole and wither, seed the mother a totem." Ulthar - AnthronomiconFebruary 17th, 2023Technical / Blackened Death Metal20 Buck SpinOakland, California / Alexandria, Virginia / Portland, Oregon, USA Ulthar first crossed my radar after the release of their second full length record …

Live from the Pit: Deicide @ Theatre Corona – 09/02/2022

Deicide @ Theatre CoronaW/ Kataklysm, Inhuman ConditionSeptember 2nd, 2022 I have to admit that as much as I love death metal I've never really been huge into Deicide. They were one of those bands that I'd listen to every now and then but never delved too deeply into. When I found out about this concert …

Album Review: Artificial Brain – Artificial Brain

Artificial Brain - Artificial BrainJune 3rd, 2022Technical Death MetalProfound Lore RecordsLong Island, New York, USA I'd never really gotten into Artificial Brain before listening to their newest record, their self-titled effort. Prior to this album's release I had listened to them sporadically on occasion, but never successfully got in to their music. When this new …

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 …