Cattle Decapitation ascended to the higher echelons of the death metal pyramid with 2015’s The Anthropocene Extinction and climbed even higher in 2019 when they released their acclaimed Death Atlas…
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In 2015, people referred to Entheos as a progressive metal supergroup because of the assortment of band members from The Faceless, Animosity and Animals as Leaders. Now, we know them…
A deal with Unique Leader Records is the absolute ceiling for most brutal death metal (BDM) bands. The monotonous chug riffs, absurd drum triggers, and strangulated gurgle noises alienate ninety-nine…
There’s something about Goatwhore that’s so metal you wonder if they’re a serious band, a bit like Danny Dyer being too Cockney for London’s East End. Sammy Duet (guitar/vocals) is…
Revocation are legends of the technical death metal scene, yet they never forget the art of songwriting among the theoretical considerations of their music. Now on their eighth album, the…
The kings of Viking metal are back with album number twelve, and this time they have the Danish land invasion of ninth-century England as their theme. As one of the…
Arizona quartet, Kardashev, impressed Metal Blade Records with their 2015 debut record, even though they have no live presence and anchor their sound to the obscure “deathgaze” tag. It’s quite…
Athenar (aka Jamie Walters) launched Midnight in 2003 and can take credit for his influence on the current wave of blackened speed metal artists like Hellripper, Devastator and Stälker. Along…
Bay Area thrash legends, Vio-lence, sent the metal world into a meltdown when they reformed in 2019 for a one-off performance of their 1988 album, Eternal Nightmare. Since then, they…