[REVIEW] LIFETAKER - Der Letzte Raum [2022] Black Omega Recordings

 

Band: LIFETAKER
Release: DER LETZTE RAUM
Label: BLACK OMEGA RECORDINGS
Genre: GRINDCORE/HARDCORE/SLUDGE
Location: DORTMUND, GERMANY
Year: 2022
Reviewer: LUKE HAYHURST

[REVIEW] GNASH - Shared Nightmares EP [2022] Self-Released

 

Band: GNASH
Location: COLUMBUS, OHIO, USA
Release: SHARED NIGHTMARES [EP]
Year: 2022
Label: SELF-RELEASED
Genre: SLUDGE METAL
Reviewer: LUKE HAYHURST

[REVIEW] XENOMYIASIS - Earthrot Demo [2022] Self-Released

 

Band: XENOMYIASIS
Location: NORWICH, UK
Release: EARTHROT [Demo]
Label: SELF-RELEASED
Year: 2022
Genre: SLUDGE/GRIND
Reviewer: LUKE HAYHURST

[REVIEW] PRAETORIAN - A Deluge of Bad Faith EP [2022] Self Released

UK Sludge/Hardcore bastards Praetorian like to do things in small doses. An EP here, a single release there. 'A Deluge of Bad Faith' is the bands fifth offering and their first post-pandemic, and dishes out three tracks of snarling misanthropy and degradation.

[REVIEW] CONAN - Evidence of Immortality [2022] Napalm Records

The beast has returned! UK Stoner/Sludge Doom monster CONAN is back with their fifth studio release - 'Evidence of Immortality' - and the follow up to 2018's 'Existential Void Guardian'. (Both released through Napalm Records) So we return to the crushing world of megalithic riffs and epic fantasy worlds, thanks to another bout of seismic Doom savagery courtesy of the one and only Conan!

[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...