[REVIEW] STRANGLE WIRE - Shaped by Human Frailty [2022] Grindscene Records

 

Band: STRANGLE WIRE | Release: SHAPED BY HUMAN FRAILTY | Genre: DEATH METAL

Label: GRINDSCENE RECORDS | Location: BELFAST, NORTHERN IRELAND | Year: 2022

Reviewer: LUKE HAYHURST

[NEWS] DISGUSTING PERVERSION: "Remember Me" is set to be released in October!

On October 21, the Bavarians of Disgusting Perversion will release their second long-player "Remember Me" via Black Sunset! Already with the predecessor "Eternity Of Death" the quintet succeeded in attracting attention despite limited live activities due to the pandemic.

[REVIEW] NIHILISTIC WARFARE - Spark Hatred Fire [2022] Kernkraftritter Records

 

Band: NIHILISTIC WARFARE
Release: SPARK HATRED FIRE
Genre: DEATH/DOOM METAL
Label: KERNKRAFTRITTER RECORDS
Location: NORTH RHINE-WESTPHALIA, DE
Year: 2022
Reviewer: LUKE HAYHURST

[REVIEW] ABYSSIC - Brought Forth in Iniquity [2022] Osmose Productions

 

Band: ABYSSIC
Release: BROUGHT FORTH IN INIQUITY
Label: OSMOSE PRODUCTIONS
Genre: SYMPHONIC DOOM/DEATH METAL
Location: HASLUM, NORWAY
Year: 2022
Reviewer: LUKE HAYHURST

[REVIEW] VACUOUS DEPTHS - Corporal Humiliation [2022] Blood Harvest

 

Band: VACUOUS DEPTHS
Release: CORPORAL HUMILIATION
Label: BLOOD HARVEST / CHAOS RECORDS / GOAT THRONE
Genre: DEATH METAL
Location: TAMPA BAY, FL, USA
Year: 2022
Reviewer: LUKE HAYHURST

[INTERVIEW] With Scottish OSDM band RANCID CADAVER!

Band: RANCID CADAVER
Location: GLASGOW, SCOTLAND
Genre: OLD SCHOOL DEATH METAL
Interviewer: LUKE HAYHURST

I'm loving the amount of filthy OSDM coming out of Scotland these days, and I got the chance to speak with Conor of Rancid Cadaver. He tells me about surprising YouTube comments, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, the Mets baseball franchise and signing with Dry Cough Records.

[INTERVIEW] With Scottish Death Metal Band BRAINBATH

Band: BRAINBATH

Genre: OLD SCHOOL DEATH METAL

Location: GLASGOW, SCOTLAND

Interviewer: LUKE HAYHURST

One of my favourite bands right now is the Glaswegian Old School Death machine BrainBath. The lads very kindly took some time out to speak to me about their new EP, horror films, crazy live shows and the explosive Scottish DM scene. As well as the reasons why you shouldn't overlook Scotland! Enjoy!

[REVIEW] EMPERIUM - Majestic Goat [2022] Self-Released

 

Band: EMPERIUM
Location: THE PHILIPPINES
Release: MAJESTIC GOAT [Single]
Label: SELF-RELEASED
Year: 2022
Genre: TECHNICAL DEATH METAL
Reviewer: LUKE HAYHURST

[REVIEW] ENERGETIC KRUSHER - Path To Oblivion - Re-Release [2022] Chaos Control

More than 30 years after it first obliterated the ears of the UK's Metal loving fanbase, 'Path to Oblivion' by the North East's Energetic Krusher has finally been given the treatment! Chaos Control have re-mastered this buried gem of 1980's UK Death/Thrash and put it out on red & yellow splatter vinyl!

[REVIEW] PROPHETIC SUFFERING - MMXXII Demo [2022] Self Released

Canada is the home to some of the worlds best Bestial Black/Death Metal around, and so it should be no surprise that Edmonton, Alberta is the latest to spawn a new frothing unholy dungeonous beast of burden. Prophetic Suffering are a diabolical quartet who take various influences from both the realms of Black and Death Metal and combine them in a variety of dastardly and reprehensible ways for their debut offering, 'Demo MMXXII'.

[REVIEW] NECRODEITY - Death over Kalikshetra [2022] Death Oracle

Black Mary reviews the new Necrodeity live album, 'Death over Kalikshetra'.

Years ago, when I was a youngster looking for interesting things to stuff my ears with, I was an avid reader of musical magazines (back in the day when internet access was granted to a small group of people in the world) and reviews of live records were extremely rare, as editors mostly agreed live recordings present bands in the worst possible manner. Seemed weird at the time and now, years later, it seems completely idiotic. Live recordings present the band how the band actually sounds, without the polished production and the entire set up and all the fancy stuff a band is capable of putting on stage, to hide the fact that their sound is utter crap. In a live recording, you hear the artist / band as they straightforward are. You actually hear the band this way. The bands soul, if you will.

[REVIEW] FLESH CRUSHER - Bastardized Demo / Demonic Possession Demo [2022] Self-Released

Recently I have noticed the emergence of a one man Death Metal project from Gothenburg, Sweden with a far more Stockholm based sound, and 2022 has been a busy year to date for Count P.von Nekrotik and his drum machine Lord Battery S. Domination the Second, with the release of not one but two demo releases under the moniker of Flesh Crusher.

[REVIEW] DOMINION OF ASHES - Wretched EP [2022] Self-Released

Dominion of Ashes are a modern sounding Death Metal band from the Steel City of Sheffield, and this year has seen them unleash their debut EP, entitled simply 'Wretched'. Consisting of four brutal tracks and being adorned by impressive atmospheric cover art, I had high hopes going into this release.

[REVIEW] BLOODRUST - A Legacy of Vengeance [2021] Desolate Sound Productions / Plague Demon Records

Bloodrust, the only metal band to hail from our furthest flung colony, The Falkland Islands. A one man Death Metal project, Bloodrust last year released a sophomore full length album entitled 'A Legacy of Vengeance', released on cassette via Desolate Sound Productions and on CD by Plague Demon Records.

[Review] SERPENT OMEGA - "II" [2020] Icons Creating Evil Art

 

One of my all time favourite bands has to be Sweden's Sludge/Doom murk dwellers SERPENT OMEGA. Their debut self-titled album was a masterpiece of blackened, filthy, squalor swimming Doom. After 7 years, they have finally returned with "II", and my how things have progressed...