Sometimes death is waiting just around the corner. Sometimes death is the best option.
5 CommentsTags: AIDS Wolf, Aurora Disease, Black Reuss, Dark Phantom, Devil Empire, Epigram, Kaleidobolt, Karelian Warcry, Project .44, Sadistc Metal Reviews
Kosuke Hashida – Moment of Silence (2026)
What makes a great album is not the parts, but the stringing together of those pieces so that they form a structure that resembles some part of our reality or ideation. Kosuke Hashida strips down music to find a voice in that vein.
4 CommentsTags: Hardcore Punk, kosuke hashida
Ossuarium – Onward (2013)
Sounding like Bolt Thrower with more of a NWOBHM influence and Graveland overlays in the melodic department, this band creates its own style of grindcore on the verge of death metal by focusing on a few themes.
7 CommentsSubversion Trigger – Subversion Trigger EP (2026)
No one wants to admit it, but thrash fits into transitional times because it skips all the politics, religion, and philosophy in order to focus on the lived experience of marginalized outsiders (skateboarders).
10 CommentsArktheos – Cosmolith (2025)
Music communicates an experience more than emotions directly; our emotions arise in response to it. The best music first manages to hold together as a consistent voice, and then explores its own take on the world, even if not original in style or necessarily profound; it needs personality.
22 CommentsTags: arktheos, death metal, War Metal
Tenebro – Una lama d’argento (2025)
This album combines the dynamics of black metal with an Incantation/Asphyx/Immolation approach that brings lots of tasty surging riffs while at the same time building songs out of the conflict of these riffs, making for an album that is inscrutable to 90% of the listening audience at this time.
9 CommentsTags: death metal, tenebro
Venator – Psychodrome (2025)
Malaise shares a space between underground metal, heavy metal, and classic jazz: the greats came and left such a legacy that few stand up to it, and little can be so distinctive that it will gain the status of perceived greatness, so most stay away.
38 CommentsTags: Heavy Metal, judas priest, mercyful fate, scorpions, venator
Thaumaturgy – Pestilential Hymns (2025)
Pursuing a precipice between cavernous death metal and uptempo technical death metal, Thaumaturgy fuses an Immolation sense of harmony with the raw chromatic rushing power of an Incantation or Obituary, tunneling deep into a density of sound with multiple internal breaks creating a running dialogue.
11 CommentsCryoxyd – …This World We Live In (2025)
On the surface very much in love with the Testimony of the Ancients era Pestilence, this band injects a sensibility of moods more like the technical albums from Immolation and Gorguts, replacing a frenetic urgency with more varied tempi and therefore, more adaptive riffing.
3 CommentsTags: cryoxyd, death metal, Progressive Death Metal, progressive metal, Technical Death Metal
Garden Gnome – Dingleberry Variations (2025)
A series of variations on a playful theme, the tracks of this EP create an ominous but playful look into the ambiguity of darkness, filled with both hope and fear. They achieve this with repetition of a trudging theme with lighter counter-themes that bring out a sense of adventure in the obscurity.
12 CommentsTags: dungeon synth, garden gnome, nightwave, soundtrack, vaporwave
