“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”
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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.
5 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 Automation will replace massive numbers of workers, so the quest for warm bodies has been replaced by a jihad for migration.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.
15 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
Kaeck – Gruwelijk Onthaal (2025)
When you think of the impetus behind Sammath and Kaeck, think of cooking: a careful adjustment of the ratio and granularity of ingredients in order to achieve the perfect effect. Trying to meld aggressive death metal and sinister black metal requires precise intent, like martial arts or assembling nukes.
24 CommentsTags: Black Metal, death metal, kaeck
Tomas Lindberg (1973-2025)
Founding member of At the Gates vocalist Tomas Lindberg passed on to the grey lands yesterday from complications of cancer treatment. History will remember him for their epic first album, The Red in the Sky is Ours, which created the atmospheric metal genre in a new form.
44 CommentsTags: At the Gates, death metal
Kaeck Gruwelijk Onthaal Releases September 18, 2025
Folter Records plans to release the third Kaeck, Gruwelijk Onthaal, on September 18, 2025. The album features art by Dylan Humphries in a handmade woodcut style and shows Kaeck arriving on Earth, stepping on the broken souls and corpses of humanity.
5 CommentsTags: death metal, kaeck
Necropolis AD (#5): Top Death Metal and Black Metal Albums Ranked
Exploring the new format that podcasts in the media firehose of mostly hollow hits out there, the NADS crew plus a familiar voice join up to rank the albums that were junctures in the branching path of evolution that brought us death metal and black metal.
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SMR: Cannibalism of The Deceased and Sodomized Edition
We know the underground is dead. It has been dead for thirty years, and we have killed it, by accepting music that imitated the methods of the past without understanding of the why. And yet we soldier on, seeking the few exceptions.
19 CommentsTags: Black Metal, death metal, music reviews, sadistic metal reviews, smr
