Ershetu create Black Metal of the most cinematic and evocative sort and their latest album ‘Yomi’, a concept album that explores the Japanese death-lore Shinto, is very much entrenched in the rousing aesthetic initially explored on their 2023 debut album ‘Xibalba’. Featuring Vindsval of Blut Aus Nord fame on vocals, bass and additional guitars, Sacr … Read more
The latest full length by Japanese Post Hardcore stalwarts Envy entitled ‘Eunoia’ is as volcanic as it is ethereal and evocative. Beginning with the saccharine slice of syrupy ambience that is ‘Piecemeal’ and sliding into the exhilarating and emotive ‘Imagination and Creation’, ‘Eunoia’ sets a sonic precedent which is drenched in shimmering guitars and lilting … Read more
During the heyday of Nu Metal and Rapcore P. O. D were one of the commercial heavyweights, gaining tons of radio play as singles such as ‘Youth Of The Nation’ and ‘Alive’ set the airwaves ablaze with their rousing, yet decidedly vapid verses and choruses. When it comes to the type of glossy Rapcore that … Read more
Since their inception in 2013, Cape Town based sonic coven The Fallen Prophets have been conjuring forth bone crushing vistas of vitriolic Brutal Death Metal. On their latest EP ‘Primordial Instinct’ these Death Metal heavyweights serve up a smoldering platter of punishing Death Metal that incorporates a smorgasbord of Baroque and Classical music oriented motifs … Read more
Ever since I experienced the frenzied and frenetic ‘Malignant Reality’ by Replicant back in 2021 I was smitten by their bone shattering, Gorguts-meets-groove oriented dissonant Death Metal splendor. Featuring Michael Goncalves, Peter Lloyd, Itay Keren and Justin Spaeth in their ranks, Replicant are a unit that conjure forth music of the most cerebral and visceral … Read more
On their latest album ‘Bellum’ South African sonic cabal Chaos Doctrine invoke a firey inferno of enigmatic, blazing Thrash infused Industrial Metal that is as catchy as an airborne contagion and as crushing as a steamroller. Opening track ‘Lifting The Veil’ is a chrome plated battleship that forges ahead with bruising rhythms, skin-shredding leads, percussive, … Read more
The upcoming EP courtesy of Doomtrigger, ‘Circles Part One’ is a devastating display of fierce Metalcore that is merciless in its intent to set your synapses ablaze in a conflagration of crushing rhythms, cumbersome riffs, furious vocals and bug-eyed drum battery. Prepare to be pummeled as opening track ‘Limbo’ lays siege to your being with … Read more
On their debut for the indomitable Relapse Records entitled ‘The Way Of All Flesh Is Decay’, End Reign concoct a heady brew of frost-bitten Metallic Hardcore that is equal parts Tombs infused Black Metal bludgeon, Integrity induced Hardcore delirium, dual guitar oriented histrionics and Ringworm oriented Thrash Metal. With Domenic Romeo of Integrity fame at … Read more
Brazilian bruisers Rebaelliun unleash a deadly froth of violent Death Metal that shares traits with Krisiun, Deicide, Morbid Angel and Blood Red Throne. These stalwarts have been plying their punishing wares since 1998 and their latest album ‘Under The Sign Of Rebellion’ is testament to their veteran status, displaying a band at the height of … Read more
Fossilization conjure forth a murky morass of suffocating Death Metal that draws upon the dark smoulder of vintage Immolation and Incantation as much as it does the modern malevolence of Portal, Abyssal, Fetid and Ulcerate. Hailing from Brazil and featuring members from Death-Doom-Sludge barons Jupiterian , the duo that are Fossilization will send you spiraling … Read more