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 …

Akhenaten’s Best Albums of 2023

The time has come to deliver my list of my personal favourite records of 2023. Please remember that this is not an objective list of albums considered the best. It's just my opinion that these are the best because I liked them more than anything else that came out this year. 10. Øbelisk - The …

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: Cattle Decapitation – Terrasite

"Every human's bed is made, nightmares start when you awake, and this world will go on without you." Cattle Decapitation - TerrasiteMay 12th, 2023Death Metal / GrindcoreMetal Blade RecordsSan Diego, California, USA Cattle Decapitation were a band I always listened to on occasion in passing here and there, but it wasn't really until their last …

Album Review: Cryptopsy – As Gomorrah Burns

"A lackluster god to which I pray has consumed me whole." Cryptopsy - As Gomorrah BurnsSeptember 8th, 2023Technical Death MetalNuclear Blast RecordsMontreal, Quebec, Canada Legendary technical death metal aficionados Cryptopsy are back with their first full length offering since 2012. As Gomorrah Burns is surely a long awaited record, though from me personally not so …

Album Review: Man Must Die – The Pain Behind It All

"We seek patterns in the chaos. You don't want the truth." Man Must Die - The Pain Behind It AllFebruary 17th, 2023Technical Death Metal / DeathcoreDistortion Music GroupGlasgow, Scotland, UK I haven't listened to Man Must Die since my early teenage years of extreme metal exploration, and even so it had been so long since …

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 …