Blood Red Throne and I have had a somewhat complicated relationship over the years, largely due to the band’s vocal approach, more specifically, the blend of highpitched screams and deep guttural growls. Personally, I’ve always felt the band’s music...

Gruesome was conceived as a homage to Chuck Schuldiner and Death, not as a cover band, but as a group dedicated to creating original music inspired by their legacy. Their debut, Savage Land, became one of my mostplayed death...

Veins of Fire marks the sixth full-length release from German death metal outfit Deserted Fear. While the band’s early work leaned heavily on traditional death metal foundations, their more recent albums have gradually embraced a melodic death metal direction....

Massacre’s story stretches all the way back to Tampa, Florida in 1984, when the band emerged during the formative years of American death metal. After a handful of demos in the late eighties, their debut From Beyond finally arrived...

Norwegian death metal stalwarts Blood Red Throne return with their tenth full‑length album, Imperial Congregation, released through Nuclear Blast Records. While the band remains firmly rooted in the old‑school death metal sound that has defined their career, three elements...

I have to admit I wasn’t familiar with this Ukrainian band before now, despite Scythian Stamm being their fifth full‑length release. Formed in 2005 under the name Hellion and rebranded as Hell:On in 2007, the band has clearly been...

German tech‑death veterans Profanity return on December 4th with their fourth full‑length studio album, Fragments of Solace. The record was tracked during the first half of 2020 across several studio locations before being mixed and mastered by Lukas Haidinger...

Noble Demon Records may be a relatively new player on the scene, but founder Patrick Walch, well‑known from his tenure at Nuclear Blast, clearly has an eye for quality. A few weeks ago I covered the excellent new Night...

Portraits of Mind marks a confident and compelling debut from Greek death‑metal outfit Plague, and it’s one that should immediately pique the interest of anyone drawn to the genre’s old‑school roots. The band leans deliberately toward an early‑nineties aesthetic,...

Scars Of The Flesh is a death metal act heading from San Antonio, Texas and ‘Reaching Into The Void’ is their sophomore album following up their 2017 debut ‘Harvest Of Souls’. Unfortunately I haven’t had the chance to check...