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Review: Gatecreeper ‘Deserted’

14th October 201914th October 2019 Sandy Williamson Death Metal, Deserted, Gatecreeper, Relapse Records, Review

Tucson, Arizona’s Gatecreeper are the latest band to find their way onto the mighty Relapse Records, and the three year

Album & EP Reviews D

Death ‘Scream Bloody Gore’ (Reissue) 2016

8th May 201716th September 2019 Mark Hunt-Bryden 2016, Death, Death Metal, Mark Hunt-Bryden, Reissue, Relapse Records, Review

After a raft of classic album re-issues has shone a spotlight on some of metals very foundations, it’s now the

Album & EP Reviews B

Black Breath ‘Slaves Beyond Death’ CD/LP/DD 2015

7th October 20152nd September 2019 Pete Green 2015, Black Breath, CD, Death Metal, Digital, Hardcore, LP, Pete Green, Review, Slaves Beyond Death, Southern Lord, Thrash

Hmmmm. You know that feeling you get when you can see entirely where a band are journeying to and you

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Temple Of Void ‘Of Terror And The Supernatural’ CD/CS/DD Reissue 2015

11th September 20153rd September 2019 John Reppion 2015, Cassette, CD, Death Doom, Death Metal, Digital, Doom, John Reppion, Of Terror And The Supernatural, Reissue, Review, Shadow Kingdom Records, Temple of Void

Temple Of Void are a death/doom five piece from Detroit, Michigan, USA. Together since 2013, Of Terror And The Supernaturalis

Album & EP Reviews C

Coffins ‘Craving To Eternal Slumber’ CD/LP/DD 2015

28th July 20153rd September 2019 Sandy Williamson 2015, CD, Coffins, Craving To Eternal Slumber, Death Metal, Digital, Doom, Hammerheart Records, LP, Review, Sandy Williamson, Sludge

Coffins are Japan’s premier dealers of death metal in its most primal, sludge ridded form. Their discography reads as almost

Album & EP Reviews X

Xibalba ‘Tierra Y Libertad’ CD/LP/DD 2015

22nd February 20153rd September 2019 Sandy Williamson 2015, CD, Death Metal, Digital, Hardcore, LP, Review, Sandy Williamson, Southern Lord, Tierra Y Libertad, Xibalba

Xibalba are a death metal/hardcore band from Pomona, California and Tierra Y Libertad is their third album. Signed to Southern

Album & EP Reviews W

Winds Of Genocide ‘Usurping The Throne Of Disease’ CD/DD 2015

8th February 20153rd September 2019 Sandy Williamson 2015, CD, Crust, D-Beat, Death Metal, Digital, Pulverised Records, Review, Sandy Williamson, Usurping The Throne Of Disease, Winds Of Genocide

Winds Of Genocide detonated upon my consciousness for the first time with their 2010 release, The Arrival Of Apokalyptic Armageddon.

A Album & EP Reviews

Ævangelist ‘Writhes In The Murk’ CD/LP/DD 2014

1st December 20143rd September 2019 Paul Robertson 2014, Ævangelist, Atmospheric, Black Metal, CD, Death Metal, Debemur Morti Productions, Digital, Experimental, LP, Paul Robertson, Review, Writhes In The Murk

Ne’er has an album title been quite so apt, as the industrial-flecked black death metal of Ævangelist writhes, twists and

Album & EP Reviews O

Obituary ‘Inked In Blood’ CD/LP/DD 2014

15th October 20143rd September 2019 Sandy Williamson 2014, CD, Death Metal, Digital, Inked In Blood, LP, Obituary, Relapse Records, Review, Sandy Williamson

Full disclosure: the first time I ever heard Obituary, I fucking hated it. I did, I admit it. A mate

Album & EP Reviews O

Oraculum ‘Sorcery Of The Damned’ CD/DD 2014

12th October 20143rd September 2019 Jamie Grimes 2014, Black Metal, CD, Death Metal, Digital, Invictus Productions, Jamie Grimes, Oraculum, Sorcery Of The Damned, Thrash

I believe it was top 20th century philosopher Shane Embury who once famously posited that there was, at one time,

Album & EP Reviews T

Take Over And Destroy ‘Vacant Face’ CD/DD 2014

19th September 20142nd September 2019 Mark Hunt-Bryden 2014, Black Metal, CD, Death Metal, Digital, Doom, Mark Hunt-Bryden, Psychedelic, Punk, Review, Self Released, T.O.A.D., Take Over And Destroy, Theatrical, Vacant Face

Under the initialism of T.O.A.D. several demented folks from Tempe, Arizona unleashed an EP called Rotten Tide in 2011, where

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