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Wounds: Light Eater

March 18, 2019
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In great precision and technical ability, tech death monsters Wounds are set to unleash their debut EP Light Eater. This just over twenty minute mashing of brains is a powerhouse of a release. Packed to the bursting point with five insane tracks, Light Eater is something to behold. From beginning to end you become trapped in the pure maelstrom of flesh ripping death. Pummeling, destructive and down right skull sanding, Light Eater is everything that you would come to expect and want from these corpse hoarders. From track one to track five, Wounds offers up a sound that is relentless and punishing, gifting you with no moment of reprieve as you are marched toward your demise.

Light Eateris an intricate and surgical release, one that is filled with great technicality, diversity and jam packed with tracks that aim to shred you from head to toe. The overall sound of this release is refined and cohesive as each one of the five cuts here are well constructed offerings of brain splattering death. Not a moment is wasted throughout this release as Wounds ushers forth track after track of vein draining death that is sure to leave you as nothing more than a husk when all is said and done.

With flesh shredding riffs coupled with acrobatic drumming and grisly vocals, Wounds offers up a mind spinning and neck snapping sound that is hard to deny. Each track is a well constructed storm of death and malice that tears you to pieces with the passing of each second. Light Eater is a staggering technical display of death metal that cannot be denied. This EP is a destructive force through and through, one that gifts you with five excellent tracks that are bound to rip your head from your shoulders.

This is technical death metal at its finest. Light Eateris a ceaseless aural assault that is as bone crushing and marrow draining as you would imagine and hope it to be. As this release leans toward the shorter side, it still packs quite the massive punch leaving you knocking on death’s door. Each of the five tracks here are brilliantly intricate and wonderfully technical and well put together, gifting you with five straight tracks of nothing but terrorizing technical death metal. Overall, Light Eater is a release to behold, one that is excellently crafted and executed to provide you with some of the sickest technical death metal.

Light Eater will be unleashed April 19 through Everlasting Spew Records.

Links To Follow:

Wounds Facebook

Everlasting Spew Bandcamp

Burn Victim: Panic

March 17, 2019
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With the foundation of their sound being rooted in hardcore, Burn Victim adds elements of death metal and thrash to obtain a truly heavy handed skull bashing sound. Through their second EP Panic, these bone crushers offer up five spine rattling tracks. Each of the five cuts here are short but they are punchy and demoralizing. Within their short run times, each offering cuts straight to the bone and smashes your teeth down your throat. Panic is a heavy, gnarled and savage offering, one that caves your skull in without a second thought.

After a brief intro, Burn Victim jumps straight in to heavy handed beat down with their first full track. Once the intro fades out and the remaining tracks take over, they bulldoze you straight in to the cement one anguishing minute after another. As each track marches forth, so does the clock as it counts down to your untimely demise. There isn’t a track here that takes a second off or that lets you take a breather as each one rampages forth with the intent to pummel you straight in to the dirt.

With massive, chugging riffs coupled with striking drumming, gnarled bass lines and gritty vocals, Burn Victim offers up a sound that is incredibly heavy and impaling. These heathens stomp from track to track, trampling over anyone who dares stand before them, burying them in a shallow unmarked grave when all is said and done. Each offering is just as barbaric as the last as each one offers up a true sledgehammer beating that leaves a crater in your skull before you know it.

The variety through Panic is great as Burn Victim switches up tempos with frequency providing you with a slower chugging tempo that caves your chest that can quickly turn to a full throttle thrash assault in the blink of an eye and back again. These are brutalizing and demoralizing offerings, one that aim to snap bones and bend spines and they truly succeed. Without so much as a moments reprieve, Burn Victim marches from track to anvil heavy track providing you with some wickedly heavy metal that you are sure to bash your brain against your skull to.

Links To Follow:

Burn Victim Bandcamp

Bather: S/T

March 15, 2019
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Meshing the likes of hardcore with elements of death metal, d-beat, some sludge and punk to create an overall pissed off and ultimately neck bending heavy sound is Bather. With their self titled release, Bather unleashes six tracks that are all just as heavy and skull smashing as the last. Never to cease and never to relent in their aural assault, Bather trudges from one track to the next to offer up an incredibly dark and destructive sound that is hard to deny. Each of the six offerings that are harbored within the title are equally savage and bone breaking, never gifting you with a moment of solace.

Nearly from the get go, Bather unleashes hell as they supply you with sickeningly heavy riffs that are backed by equally bone shaking bass lines and jarring drumming that are all complimented by unearthly monstrous vocals. All of these elements come together within each of the six tracks that are present to provide you with a non stop metallic assault that aims to tear you apart. As a whole, this self titled release is a savage and bone breaking offering that gets you smashing your brain against your skull against your better judgement. Each track is a non stop neck bending and head banging affair.

With each genre that Bather employs to create their overall nasty sound, they all come together in sickening harmony to provide you with a cohesive and wicked overall sound. Never once do your bones stop rattling as Bather ushers forth track after track of ceaseless violence and mayhem. Bather does a great job through each track switching tempos and sounds as they offer up a slower trudging sound that is akin to sludge then promptly switch gears to a more up tempo romp more akin to death metal and back again. These tempo and style changes are utilized effectively throughout each cut, gifting you with a varied and diverse listen. Never are you to hear the same thing twice throughout this self titled offering as Bather does a great job balancing each genre they employ as well as the great tempo shifts.

This release is a monster, one that deploys a menacing and destructive sound that is not to be ignored. Each offering is a force of metallic reckoning that aims to claim your life before the final second ticks off the clock. These tracks are well constructed hymns of destruction and mayhem that never slow their roll until the final note rings through. Overall, this is a very solid release. One that is pissed off, heavy as an anvil and filled with enough variety to keep you coming back for more foundation shaking madness. As short as this release is, it packs quite a punch and packs enough great brain rattling content within it to keep you entertained and engaged. Bather aims for the jugular here and they hit their mark.

This self titled release will be unleashed April 12 through Appalachian Noise Records.

Check out the official single All Dark Rooms from the upcoming release below!

Links To Follow:

Bather Bandcamp

Appalachian Noise Records Bandcamp

Appalachian Noise Records Official Site

Eugenic Death: Under The Knife

March 13, 2019
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Thrashing mad straight out of North Carolina comes Eugenic Death. Since their inception in 2010, Eugenic Death released their debut Crimes Against Humanity in 2012 and in 2014 began working on their next offering Under The Knife. Five years later these thrash hounds are set to unleash this beast of a record that includes seven total tracks of nothing but thrashing madness. Through and through, from beginning to end you become subject to excellent spine bending thrash anthems one right after another. Each track is just as furious and whiplash inducing as the ones that came before it, gifting you with a truly entertaining and adrenaline pumping offering that is hard to get out of your head.

Eugenic Death wastes no time getting you acquainted with their torrid sound as they immediately jump set off with their opening track Indoctrinate. From Indoctrinateforward, Eugenic Death marches onward supplying you with droves of neck bending thrash for your devilish enjoyment. From beginning to end Eugenic Death does not slow their assault or cease their relentless attack as they usher forth track after track of razor sharp thrash metal that cuts to the bone. Under The Knife is pure thrash that is filled with memorable tracks that will rattle around in your brain for quite some time.

Filled with great musicianship that includes razor sharp riffs that are supplemented by scorching solos, pummeling drum work, great bass lines and gritty, filthy vocals, Under The Knife is a heavy maelstrom of thrash. Each track is just as solid as the last as each one is a well constructed offering of brain bruising metal. There isn’t a track here that is weak or feels out of place as each of the seven here bring something new and heavy to the gnarled table. Each cut is built to get your head banging and your brain mashing against your skull leaving a clear imprint on your mind.

These in your face ferocious offerings are entirely entertaining and memorable and have you coming back for more and more thrashing madness. There is no filler here, no gimmick, and nothing that makes you feel as though tropes or fads are being followed as Eugenic Death keep everything raw and straight forward. You cannot go wrong with this release as you are greeted with one excellent track right after another. This is not just a great thrash release, but a great album overall that deserves to be spun until it is worn out.

Under The Knife will be released March 15 through Heaven and Hell Records.

Check out the promotional video for Under The Knife below!

Links To Follow:

Eugenic Death Facebook

Eugenic Death Bandcamp

Heaven and Hell Records Bandcamp

Reaper-X: Rise

March 12, 2019
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Hailing from the UK is Reaper-X and with them comes their debut full length titled Rise. Through this release you come to greet nine total tracks that range from a variety of topics that include war, suicide, going to shows and moshing to more. Rise is a diverse and varied record, one that holds your attention for its entirety as it ushers forth track after track of thrashing intensity. This release delivers and then some and as a debut full length it is quite impressive. Reaper-X showcases their eclectic abilities throughout the entirety of their album making it to be an overall entertaining and memorable offering.

Reaper-X start their record with a great instrumental that ultimately sets the overall tone for the remainder of the record. The near two minute intro is a looming and heavy handed instrumental that brings to light what you are about to hear for the remaining eight offerings. What you can come to expect are heavy powerful riffs that are supplemented by ever pummeling drums and vicious vocals that pour through the wall of thrashing madness. For the majority of the tracks here they are up tempo romps influenced by thrash but with a little bit more of a modern touch to them making them even more memorable.

Each track here has something new to offer and bring forth and flesh out. Not a single track sounds like another as Reaper-X does a great job mixing things up to provide you with plenty of variety and diversity throughout. Each cut here is a well constructed and well performed metallic assault that gets your fist pumping and your head banging before you know it. Rise is an infectious record, one that is hard to turn away from and one that is easy to come back to when you need a good dosage of thrashing madness. As a whole, this record gets stuck rattling around in your brain for some time to come, never to relinquish its grip on you.

Reaper-X employs a lot of different styles all throughout Rise, giving enough time to each style to let each track breathe and play out as it should. As heavy and brain mashing as the majority of the tracks can be, Reaper-X shows that they can tone things down a bit with the track Adrift. Adrift is a slower thoughtful song that displays the vocalists range as he gifts you with cleans that work so well with the track overall. This track is a softer, not so cranium sanding track that you may not think fits with the rest of the tracks, but does in reality fit well. Adriftis yet another example of Reaper-X’s diversity and ability to play in a style that does not have to be completely balls to the wall heavy.

Overall, Rise is a solid record through and through. With plenty of diversity, different genres thrown in the mix at times, and with a showcasing of a complete tonal shift with Adrift, Reaper-X really has it all through this record. With great musicianship, solid vocals and diversity in subject matter, there is a lot here for just about anyone and everyone to enjoy. This is an entertaining and memorable release as well as just an overall solid debut full length.

Rise will be released March 12 through Sliptrick Records.

Check out the lyric video for the title track below!

Links To Follow:

Reaper-X Facebook

Fallujah: Undying Light

March 11, 2019
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Since their inception in 2007, Fallujah has been a juggernaut on a tear unleashing two demos, two EPs and with three full length albums up until this point. Their fourth full length is titled Undying Light and features ten incredible tracks of technical progressive death metal. This offering flows well from one track to the next making it out to be a cohesive and comprehensive death metal endeavor. Even though each offering can stand and shine alone, this record deserves to be listened to non stop, front to back to appreciate its full scope.

From the very beginning, Undying Light has a great ability to draw you in and keep you listening for its entirety. Never are you to waver from the listen as each track draws you in more and more with the passing of each second. Undying Light is a wholly gripping and entertaining listen, one that you ultimately get lost in and stuck in for some time to come. Each track off this record is just as good as the last. Without filler, without fluff, Fallujah marches forth, ushering one track of slick technical death metal out at a time keeping you entertained and gripped from beginning to end.

Through and through, each cut harbored within the title is a well constructed offering that boasts superb musicianship, throat straining vocals and an atmosphere that is quite undeniable. As intricate and mesmerizing as the musicianship throughout is, the atmosphere in which Fallujah provides throughout is just as gripping and hypnotic. The floating, serene atmosphere that underlies each track draws you in further and further. The atmosphere and ambiance is outstanding throughout, providing you with diversity and a hypnotic quality that you surely cannot shake.

Undying Light is a great record all around as it gifts you with ten very solid, damn near perfect tracks. Fallujah continues to push the envelope here as they provide you with a unique and addicting sound that you cannot get out of your head. As heavy as this release is, it is just as mesmerizing and captivating which ultimately has you coming back for more. This is a great record, one that surprises and delights, one that is entirely entertaining and gripping as well as one that should not be slept on.

Undying Light will be released March 15 through Nuclear Blast.

Check out the official music video for Ultraviolet from the upcoming record below!

Links To Follow:

Fallujah Facebook

Nuclear Blast Official Site

Undeath: Demo ’19

March 10, 2019
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Emitting nothing but the foulest of stenches as they claw up from the rotting underground of death is Undeath with their appropriately named Demo ’19. Through this release you are subject to five of some of the most grisly and gruesome of death metal. Never to cease their slaughter and pure skull sanding assault, Undeath offer up one track after another of bleeding raw, filthy and grime filled death metal. This is pure, stripped down, flesh masticating death metal and nothing but. Each offering cuts deep, eviscerating and mutilating to the very end, leaving you as nothing but a mere slab of hacked up remains at the end of it all.

No intro is needed here as Undeath kick your teeth down your throat immediately with their opening track Unadorned Coffin. This track is a bulldozing and grave desecrating cut, one that rampages forth with the intent to drain your veins of your very blood. With rapid fire drumming, cleaving riffs and ever throat cutting, unearthly vocals, this track aims for the jugular from the drop of the first bloodied note. Unadorned Coffinsets the stage perfectly for the remaining four tracks as each one follows in its grisly footsteps as they supply you with droves of malignant, rotting death.

Each track within this demo is a restless and chaotic affair that has you come face to face with nothing but grim and gruesome death. These rancid tracks are just that. They are gruesome, filthy and down right barbaric as they smash at your skull and pick at its innards as each minute ticks down on the run time. Throughout, Undeath casts aside modern death metal tropes in favor of bringing to the table pure, unfiltered filth and god dammit it’s great. Each cut here is pure death metal madness through and through that cut deep enough to lop off a sizable chunk of your frontal lobe.

Through and through, this demo is great. Each track is just as good as the last. Each offering is a well put together bulldozer of death and mayhem that gnaws at your flesh and drains the marrow from your bones. This is a great offering overall, one that is filled to the bursting point with five excellent tracks that aim to take your life from the drop of the first note.

Demo ’19 will be released March 29 through Caligari Records.

Check out the track Archfiend Coercion Methods below!

Links To Follow:

Caligari Records Official Site

Caligari Records Bandcamp

Hnus Umirajici: S/T

March 8, 2019
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Hailing from the Czech Republic comes Hnus Umirajici with their self titled debut full length. This self titled release contains seven total tracks of black metal with hints of doom and even death metal. Each of the seven tracks here are well constructed, foreboding and damning offerings that drag you further and further away from the light the more each second ticks off the run time. After an interesting, foreboding intro fades in to obscurity, Hnus Umirajici kicks things in to gear with a furious and demonic full opening track.

The full opening track comes straight out of hell’s gate to meet you face to face with ripping riffs that are only to be supplemented by tumultuous drums, dissonant, raspy and hellish vocals. The opening track keeps the furious pace for the most part, only to slow down a bit toward the middle to provide you with a sinister mid tempo romp through the graveyard. The intro is unique and foreboding which atmospherically sets the tone while this opener sets the tone for the metallic onslaught that is about to press onward toward darkness. Each track that follows, follows in similar foot steps where you get a great variety of blasting pure black metal that fades toward more doom-centric sounds that march you toward your demise.

Through and through, this offering has a unique feel and sound to it that is hard to explain. Each cut offers up something new and different that you may not have heard in previous tracks making this entire release varied and diverse throughout. Throughout this record you won’t hear the same thing twice or something recycled as Hnus Umirajici comes at you with different styles and sounds. The mixture of black metal and bits of doom and death metal work well here as they ultimately greet you with an evil, sinister and overall heavy sound that is hard to forget.

With the underlying atmospherics through each track that are a great addition to each one, these seven offerings are well rounded and cohesive efforts that keep you listening. The musicianship is great, the vocals are monstrous when needed and dissonant hellish screams when needed, the atmosphere is ever shifting and wicked, the production is solid and the way that everything comes together within this release is great. Overall, this self titled debut is entertaining and solid through and through, never to greet you with a weak track, always to greet you with a sinister brain bruising affair.

This release is out now through MetalGate Records.

Links To Follow:

MetalGate Official Site

Hnus Umirajici Facebook

Gjendød: Krigsdøger

March 7, 2019
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Bubbling from where light cannot reach comes Gjendød with their newest offering Krigsdøger. With pure malevolence and blackened vigilance, these heathens offer up nine new tracks that are every bit as twisted, malicious and atmospherically potent as you would hope for. There are no gimmicks here and no frills as what you get is pure black metal through and through and nothing but. Krigsdøger barrels forth through your speakers nearly from the drop of the first note to provide you with ever ripping and blasphemous metal for nine straight soul cleaving offerings.

Without so much as a pause, one malicious act follows another, and then another as each one strikes out like a coiled snake ready to strike at your throat. Each of the nine offerings here are as damning as the one that came before, ever trapping you in an eternal storm of brimstone and hellfire. For the majority of the record, each cut is played at an up tempo yet precise pace that is only interjected by mid tempo paces that offer more atmosphere and variety throughout. Each of the nine tracks present here are well constructed blackened offerings that drag you in, never to let you leave until you have finally been buried among the rest of the damned.

Among the venomous riffs, blasting drumming and dissonant throat ripping howls from hell is an ever present and malicious atmosphere that makes itself known from the very beginning. The atmosphere seeps through each track like a foreboding dismal fog that you cannot escape from. As mentioned, the atmosphere can really be felt once Gjendød slows things down a bit such as in the track Å puste liv i råttent kjøtt. Not only do you get hit with a purely furious metallic onslaught, but you become ensnared in their devilish and wicked atmosphere as well.

From beginning to end, Krigsdøger is a great record. It is constructed well and executed perfectly to provide you with an overall well rounded and very solid record. Not a single track is out of place and not a single track feels weak as each of the nine are as solid and blasphemous as the ones that came before it. Little touches here and there especially with the acoustic guitar are nice flairs that add even more characteristic to each track making each one memorable. Overall, this is a solid record through and through, one that you wouldn’t want to sleep on.

Krigsdøger will be released through Hellthrasher Productions March 9.

Six of Swords: Regime Decay-Polar Vortex

March 6, 2019
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Six of Swords: Regime Decay-Polar Vortex

Since their inception, Toronto’s Six of Swords has been making quite a name for themselves in the underground and certainly for good reason. These heathens play an utterly damning and wicked style of death metal firmly rooted in the vein of 90’s death metal. They are wicked, filthy, bloodied and down right neck snapping heavy. Regime Decay-Polar Vortex is a compilation of their two EPs that have been released up until this point, meaning what you get is ten straight tracks of mutilating death metal for your twisted enjoyment.

Each of the ten offerings that are harbored within the title are as blasphemous and blood boiling as you would hope them to be. One right after another, each track barrels forth with malicious and malevolent intent aiming to mutilate and send you to an early damp grave. There isn’t a track present that isn’t a bulldozing effort of nothing but grimy and filth covered death metal that leaves you buried under droves of viscera. These skull grinding efforts are exactly that. They are relentless and ceaseless onslaughts of pure mayhem fueled death metal that is sure to get your neck twisted and your skull scooped out before your listen is over.

While employing slower more groove filled moments, Six of Swords ramps the tempo up when needed to provide you with a truly spine breaking sound that is hard to shake. Each of the ten tracks here are intense, slaughtering offerings of death that are innately brutalizing and dehumanizing, leaving you to be nothing more than a husk at the end of it all. With destructive riffs, throat slashing vocals and ever pummeling drumming, Six of Swords offers up an intense, massive and addictive sound that will have you coming back for more and more punishment.

This is straight up chilling, flesh masticating death metal in the most pure form. Regime Decay-Polar Vortex is an enjoyable and highly entertaining offering that you will end up leaving on repeat for some time to come. This is a great release that mashes both of their EPs together in an all around great showcase that ultimately gets you prepared for what these corpse hoarders have to offer next.

Regime Decay-Polar Vortex will be released March 29th through Raw Skull Recordz and Redefining Darkness.