Vanum – Legend – CDD
After a period of smoldering dormancy Vanum reappears, blazing and alive, with their third full length album, Legend. Continuing the triumphant march of previous works, but raising the stakes even higher, Legend finds Vanum both expanding and refining their approach, and in turn delivering their most fully realized recording to ...
Disquiet – Instigate To Annihilate – CDD
With "Instigate to Annihilate" Disquiet takes you to the far reaches of thrash and melodic death metal, offering you epic heights. The band shows its determination to challenge itself and explore new dimensions like collaborations with vocalists Charlotte Wessels (ex-Delain) and Vicky Psarakis (The Agonist), guitarist Damir Eskic (Destruction) and ...
Last Of Lucy, The – Moksha (8-Panel Glow-In-The-Dark) – CDD
The Last of Lucy have shed the skin of their previous releases to reveal a far more dangerous and lethal creature underneath. It represents the core of their sound, without any frills or slow passages, for on 'Moksha' they've taken on ferocious avatar to decimate from start to finish. It's ...
Abyssus – Death Revival (8-Panel Glow-In-The-Dark) – CDD
Starting off as a band playing a much faster, thrashier and crustier version of Obituary, Greek death metal band Abyssus have come a long way. Their music is now absolutely formidable; it’s impeccably structured and flawlessly executed without any compromises on the vision. The passion and spirit are still there ...
As The World Dies – Agonist (8-Panel Glow-In-The-Dark) – CDD
Formed by members of Memoriam and Pemphigoid, As The World Dies are among UK’s most promising new bands. Gritty and spiteful, the music rampages mercilessly hearkening back to the era of Bolt Thrower, Grave and the like, even though As The World Dies have their own approach to it all ...
Dischordia – Triptych (8-Panel Glow-In-The-Dark) – CDD
Forging the brutal, technical and dissonant death metal styles, Dischordia have created a triumvirate of evolved and complicated death metal which will require the unspooling of brains to fully decipher it. It may have to be soaked overnight or given as much time with it too, for indeed, to absorb ...
Et Moriemur – Tamashii No Yama (8-Panel Glow-In-The-Dark) – CDD
Czech doom metal band Et Moriemur set new standards for themselves with their previous Greek-themed album 'Epigrammata' which borrowed elements of death and black metal and flawlessly integrated them in their unique brand of atmospheric doom metal. This time they're exploring Japanese themes and have frankly outdone themselves. It's rare ...
Godless Truth – Godless Truth (8-Panel Glow-In-The-Dark) – CDD
Long-running Czech band Godless Truth have been around since the early '90s but have gone from strength to strength with each album, imbibing influences that enhance their sound and make them more powerful and effective than ever before. They're playing a form of music that's contemporary but having roots in ...
Hellfrost And Fire – Fire, Frost And Hell (8-Panel Glow-In-The-Dark) – CDD
In top form after his laudable performance with the latest Benediction release, David Ingram leads the attack on this one, his latest band playing unrelenting, pounding, neck-snapping old school death metal. An inexorable force, the music reverberates with astonishing power and massive stomping grooves, rolling forth like a juggernaut with ...
Necrophagous – In Chaos Ascend (8-Panel Glow-In-The-Dark) – CDD
Members of Visceral Bleeding and Entrails converge to forge a style of death metal that's both old school in sound and also contemporary in the way they inject the irresistible grooves. In effect, it doesn't sound too different from a cross of the aforementioned bands, with a healthy dose of ...
Vahrzaw – The Trembling Voices Of Conquered Men (8-Panel Glow-In-The-Dark) – CDD
Australian black/death metal band Vahrzaw have been perfecting their sound since the early '90s and creating a blend of the two styles that doesn't sound like anything else out there. At this stage their music has evolved enough to make it sound almost progressive in nature, where they take the ...
Viande – L’abime Devore Les Ames (4-Panel Glow-In-The-Dark) – CDD
Emanating as if from the foul-smelling, poisoned swamps, the music of debutants Viande will make you claw at your throat, enveloping you in suffocating darkness, and before you know it, it will have on your knees gasping for air, with a blood-stained bag on your head. Soon enough the clobbering ...
Vorga – Striving Toward Oblivion (8-Panel Glow-In-The-Dark) – CDD
Following a stunning debut EP in 'Radiant Gloom' which landed them a label deal, German black metal band Vorga return with an absolutely scintillating full length that expands upon the music on their debut and takes it to new heights. The sound is more powerful and streamlined than ever before, ...
Wombbath – Agma (8-Panel Glow-In-The-Dark) – CDD
After releasing their 30th anniversary release in 'Tales of Madness' and giving us a glimpse of their progressive approach in the two new songs that were part of that compilation, Wombbath return with the mightiest album of their career. It lays waste to everything they've done in the last few ...
