This is a more brief discussion that took place over the course of a week with the venerable and fervorous A.A. Nemtheanga with the intentio...

The Life Feeding Flame by FŌR •  †  • The Life Feeding Flame is an album that has tremendous output sonically, in that its energy is vigoro...

•  †  • The Unquenchable merchants of aural fury and barbarism ride into the end of the year with a late release of their trademark black me...

Manna From Heaven by Chasm Shroud •  †  • You peer into the void. You see nothing, but hear faint sounds in the distance emanating from the ...

Effigies of Obsolescence by Chaotian •  †  • Denmark’s murky death metal scene has been fertile ground for a death metal sound that I would ...

Hadean Tides by Assumption •  †  • In the arenas of doom/death metal, Assumption are a brutish juggernaut of sheer force and gargantuan mag...

The Pact by NEGATIVE PLANE •  †  • This is a big one! A new Negative Plane release announced and committed to wax is something to be hopeful...

Mortuus Infradaemoni - Inmortuos Sum by Iron Bonehead Productions •  †  • This record came out a few days ago through the always promising I...

Relics of the Dead by Druid Lord •  †  • I've been meaning to have this new Druid Lord album up on here since it came out in late Janua...

Doppelherz by Reveal •  †  • Here's an album that is absolutely refusing to be pigeon-holed by arm-chair bloggers and critics alike, a g...

Baneful Magic, Death Worship and Necromancy Rites Archaic by Crypt Lurker •  †  • Every now and then, I'll glance backwards towards crit...

Fires of the Dying World by Desolate Shrine •  †  •  Three-piece Finnish firing-squad via pummelling death metal as we've come to expect...

Deathless Void - Deathless Void by Iron Bonehead Productions •  †  • In the endless sprawl of death metal, a new presence materializes out o...

Verbum - Exhortation to the Impure by Iron Bonehead Productions •  †  • I gotta say I am pretty eager to get my mitts on this debut Verbum ...

•  †  • Before I dig into my top picks for 2021, I reached out to a few familiar faces within the sphere of metal and got them to send me th...

XXI by Succumb •  †  • SHOM has been keeping a finger on the pulse of San Fran's Succumb since their debut record in 2017 which (like ...

An Outlaw's Stand by Nocturnal Graves •  †  • Following up a Melbourne release with another Melbourne release albeit with significantly ...

Excretion of Mortality by Cerebral Rot •  †  • It should come as no surprise at all that I like Cerebral Rot . Death metal of this ilk, putr...

Abominion by Abstracter •  †  • Abstracter are no joke. No whimsy to be found. "Abandon all hope" is the message written on the w...

Defacement by DEFACEMENT •  †  • This is one of those albums that drags you through the abyss—A serpentining downward spiral through caverno...