Legendary Swedish progressive death metal band At the Gates, fresh on the heels of passing on to the dark realm of vocalist Tomas Lindberg, has commissioned faithful re-issues of its first three albums.
20 CommentsTags: At the Gates, death metal
Diabolus – Diabolical Procession (2026)
From the early days of death metal, a hybrid of Sarcofago and Deicide adds its own flavor through a modern death metal style internal dialogue of riffs producing moments of great clarity from seemingly random visions of darkness.
7 CommentsTags: death metal, diabolus
Temora – Demo 2025 (2025)
There comes to us a release showing us that the old art is not dead. A group of friends gets together in a rehearsal room to put together intricate riffs that carry a narrative. They test the rhythms back to back, a structure emerges that sustains and modulates energy. There is articulation in its diction, as there should be in writing or in speaking. Well-made music grows as a living vine, with heaves and breathing rhythms, that even in the midst of the putrefaction and desolation they are meant to evoke, produce psychic and infectious life, the destiny of which is to lodge itself into your brain. That parasite, which can indeed grow monstrous and insidious, is what the long-time death metal listener knows as pure enjoyment of this music of death.
85 CommentsTags: 2025 demo, czechia, death metal, temora
Metal Cosmos (#5)
The time has come for us to accept that modernity has died. The notion of universal, absolute, and objective “truth” has died because we realize that other people simply “game” our symbols and manipulate us to destruction.
19 CommentsTags: Ambient, ambient death metal, death metal, metal cosmos, podcast, radio
Arktheos – 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
DeathMetal.Org Best of 2025
“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”
26 CommentsTags: 2025, best of, Black Metal, death 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
Sadistic Metal Reviews: Sodomize The Holidays Edition
The world faces massive change. Automation will replace massive numbers of workers, so the quest for warm bodies has been replaced by a jihad for migration. War threatens, especially over water, and global pollution has reached the point where half of us are going to die of cancers.
16 CommentsTags: death metal, sadistic metal reviews, smr
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
