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Anthropophagous: Spoiled Marrow

March 4, 2020
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Arriving on the scene grimy, gritty, evil, putrid and utterly rotten comes Anthropophagous and their upcoming debut EP titled Spoiled Marrow. Without frill or fluff, Anthropophagous treats you to four total tracks of gut churning, blood spilling death metal and nothing but. Without mercy and in true devastating fashion, Anthropophagous trample onward from track to track only to seize your husk of a form for their ever growing garden of corpses once all is said and done. Stripped to the bone, unfiltered and bleeding raw, Spoiled Marrow offers up something that is truly flesh peeling and vein draining.

Forever chipping away at your precious sanity with their ever relentless onslaught of bloodied death, Anthropophagous rumble forth from one track to the next aiming to rip you limb from limb. Each of the four offerings that are present here are just as potent and violent as each other making this entire release to be incredibly terrorizing and gutting. There are no gimmicks, no intros, no outros. The only thing that is present here is grisly, blood draining, flesh devouring death metal.

Barbaric and brutal, Spoiled Marrow slices straight to your bone and unapologetically so. There is absolutely no reprieve from the utterly evil onslaught as you become trapped among putrid death once you press play. Without warning the ceaseless death barrage begins never to stop until the fourth and final track has finally torn off your last remaining limb. Forever bone gnawing and shredding, Anthropophagous and their deadly brand of metal march forth signaling the end for you well before the final note rings through.

Through and through, Spoiled Marrow is a great EP. Each of the four tracks here are just as good as the last making this a well rounded and cohesive effort. This is pure, grisly death metal and nothing but and that is absolutely fantastic. There is nothing here that defiles the pure, raw and putrid sound that Anthropophagous emits as what you get is straight up and down face peeling death metal. This is an EP that you will regret not listening to if you are a fan of the genre.

Spoiled Marrow is to be released by Blood Harvest Records March 13th.

Links To Follow:

Anthropophagous Bandcamp

Blood Harvest Records Bandcamp

Mære: I

February 27, 2020
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Obscure and at times haunting and spine chilling yet overall anvil heavy comes Mære from Germany with their six track EP simply titled I. Old-school in essence, Mære add their own twists and oddities to the punishing and deadly genre to come up with a truly complex and ever shape shifting sound. Never do you hear the same sounds more than once from Mære as their sound constantly shifts and morphs to how they see fit. Forever morphing and evolving with each passing second, each of the six tracks here lead you down winding, dissonant and ever daunting passages of death.

Though there are only six offerings attached to I, this EP more than makes up for the lack of quantity with quality as each cut here is superb. With as lengthy as each offering is as they clock in at over four and five minutes-save for the intro-you are treated to a true labyrinth of death metal noise. Never sticking to one sound or idea, Mære constantly shift and morph their sound, guiding you down one deadly passage after the next. Each track is just as unique, obscure and menacing as the last as Mære provides you with something that is simply intriguing and all together a different kind of heavy.

Forever devouring and engulfing, I wraps you in its pulsating and bitter darkness from which you cannot and will not see the light. As mentioned above, each track is haunting and all around spine chilling at times as the overall atmosphere of the EP itself is something all together to behold. Dissonant, darkened and all enveloping, I presses forth consuming you with the passing of each second as it loses you within the infinite folds and labyrinth like wrinkles of death. I isn’t a punishing release like a Cannibal Corpse record would be, but it is punishing in a different sense that is all its own.

From the instrumentation, to the monstrous vocals to the bitter and dark atmosphere to the unique shifts in tempo to everything in between, I certainly pushes the envelope. I is one of the more unique and intriguing death metal releases that I have heard, and changing the formula isn’t always something that works out in the favor of the band, but it certainly does here for Mære. Through and through, this six track EP is something to behold and gives you a little taste of what is hopefully to come from these death merchants.

Links To Follow:

Mære Facebook

Verano’s Dogs: Summoning The Hounds

February 26, 2020
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**Verano’s Dogs**: *Summoning The Hounds*

In true face melting and flesh ripping fashion, death grind horde Verano’s Dogs offer up an ever entertaining, relentless and blood boiling brand of deathgrind. With each of the ten tracks within Summoning The Hounds being a twisted amalgamation of death and destruction, Verano’s Dogs provide you with nothing but vein bursting scalding metal for your twisted enjoyment. Each track is a true blitzkrieg of deathgrind that snaps your neck before you realize what happened. Without so much as a warning, Verano’s Dogs sets in with their wicked brand of metal having you come face to face with an ever potent and violent assault. Verano’s Dogs execute nothing but pure perfected deathgrind here, providing you with ten total tracks of earth scorching twisted metal.

From the very first note that gets shot straight out of your speakers you quickly realize that each offering aims to trample, lay waste and destroy anyone and everything in its path. In true grinding fashion, each track is pretty short, but for what they lack in length they more than make up for in content. Each offering is a blistering assault of metal that gets your head violently banging back and forth until your neck finally gives and your head is found rolling on the floor. With one brutal assault after the next you are left with no room to breathe or take a breath as when one track ends the next immediately picks up right after it. Forever trapped in their cyclone of deathgrind terror, you come under siege from all sides from the very first note until the very last.

With slicing riffs paired with rapid fire drum work and dual vocals of the inhuman category, Verano’s Dogs creates something here that is vicious and volatile as well as entertaining. Every single second of Summoning The Hounds is an entertaining one as each track is a superb offering of pure, unfiltered deathgrind. Not a single track of the ten that are present here weak in any fashion nor do they lack in any single area as each one is just as good, heavy and head bangingly good as the last. The only thing that you wish for once the final note has rang through is that there were more than ten offerings throughout the release. With that said, that leads you to numerous listens until your ear drums just simply call it quits.

Through and through, Summoning The Hounds is a great release, one that provides you everything that you would want from a deathgrind record. Verano’s Dogs hit the nail on the head with this release as they offer up ten excellent tracks one right after the next with each one getting you bang your head until your brain fatally bruises. There’s nothing left that needs to be said other than Summoning The Hounds is absolutely excellent.

Brain Stem: Symptoms of Annihilation-Stage 2

February 21, 2020
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**Brain Stem**: *Symptoms of Annihilation-Stage 2*

Hailing from Edmonton comes experimental death metal brain melters Brain Stem, and with them they tow along their four track EP titled Symptoms of Annihilation-Stage 2. Not to be pigeonholed in one specific death metal genre, Brain Stem morphs and melts the genre to how they see fit creating a unique and ever shape shifting sound. Each of the four tracks that are present within this title are all different from one another as you are never to hear the same sound twice. Groove filled, technical, down right heavy, you name it Brain Stem is that exactly.

Through both of the Symptoms of Annihilation EPs the overall theme is that of destruction, extinction and in general the fact that we will all perish. With that said, through the two EPs, the sheer brutality and spine breaking heaviness that is heard throughout perfectly encapsulates those themes. Brain Stem provides you with a no holds barred death metal assault from beginning to end, trapping you within a dizzying and destructive cyclone of death. Ceaseless and unrepentant, Brain Stem rolls from one track to the next offering up a pure onslaught of excellent experimental death metal.

Brain Stem showcases great technical ability as well as groove oriented passages of death and everything else in between through the four cuts that are provided here. Each track is just as well sewn together, performed and executed as the last making the entire offering cohesive and fluid. Ever twisting and morphing their sound to how they see fit, Brain Stem bends your mind to their will as they take you down corridor after corridor of unrepentant death. Brain Stem does a great job of shifting their sound through each track forever keeping you on your toes all while melting your brain in the process.

Overall, Symptoms of Annihilation-Stage 2 is a great release. Brain Stem showcases great technical and song writing ability among much more ultimately creating something that is down right heavy and addictive to listen to. Each of the four tracks here are excellent and will have you coming back for more brain melting experimental death metal excellence.

Symptoms of Annihilation-Stage 2 will be released March 20th.

Check out the track Dawn of Rot from the upcoming EP below!

Links To Follow:

Brain Stem Bandcamp

Brain Stem Facebook

Fleshwolf: S/T

February 18, 2020
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Stampeding forth like a true maelstrom of death, destruction and disease comes Fleshwolf with their upcoming self titled full length. This one man death metal outfit strings together eight total tracks of malice and mayhem throughout this self titled release. Never gifting you a moment of solace, Fleshwolf stomps forth with the intent to maim and mutilate. Fleshwolf bludgeons and smashes your face in beyond recognition before all is said and done. Each of the eight offerings that are present here are just as vile and flesh tearing as the last making this release to be truly gut bursting and entrails spilling.

You won’t be greeted by any intros, interludes or outros in this release as Fleshwolf presses the proverbial blade to your throat from the drop of the first note, only to keep slicing into your flesh deeper and deeper as the record runs on. This self titled release is a deadly assault, one that hammers and chips away at your skull until you finally drop. Each of the eight tracks are on the lengthy side as they cross the three, four and nearly five minute mark giving Fleshwolf enough time to trap you within their labyrinth of death.

With ever flesh peeling riffs and machine gun fire drum work that are only to be paired by larynx shredding vocals, Fleshwolf offers up a true, bleeding raw and down right filthy brand of death metal. This is unfiltered death that comes for your life from the drop of the first gnarled note, never to cease its pure onslaught until the last and final note has played out. From the get go, Fleshwolf ushers forth one desecrating death metal dirge right after the next. Granting you not a single moment to catch your breath, Fleshwolf barrels straight through to the next offering trapping you within a deadly vortex of scalding death metal.

Through and through, this self titled release is very solid and very well executed as it offers up eight tracks of nothing but raw death metal. Without a doubt, this release will get you bashing your brain against your skull in violent head banging fervor from the very get go. Each track is an infectious offering. There isn’t a weak track within this release as each one stands tall providing you with ever ripping death metal that is not to be denied.

Fleshwolf will be released May 1. Pre-orders are to open April 3.

Links To Follow:

Fleshwolf Facebook

Fleshwolf Bandcamp

Innards: Back From The Grave, Straight In Your Face

February 12, 2020
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**Innards**: *Back From The Grave, Straight In Your Face*

While keeping their roots firmly planted in the vein of old-school death metal, Innards incorporates grind in to the fold to create an overall sickening and bowel bursting sound. Aiming to add you as fertilizer to their ever growing field of corpses, Innards presents their debut release titled Back From The Grave, Straight In Your Face. This offering features three tracks that are incredibly flesh ripping and vein draining, leaving your head hanging on by just a thread once all is said and done. Each offering is a mad blitzkrieg of viscera and violence that aims to claim your life. Steeped in horror and pure malignant death, Innards provides you with a vile and entirely entertaining and neck snapping offering here with Back From The Grave, Straight In Your Face.

The ..Straight In Your Face part of the title is just as appropriate as the Back From the Grave part as this entire release is as in your face as it can get. From the drop of the first note Innards is in your face with three deadly incantations of death and mayhem. From beginning to end you are treated to nothing other than pure, unfiltered and bleeding raw death that is sure to leave a hole gaping through your midsection. With grind in brain mashing concert with death metal, Innards provides you with something here that is head spinning, entertaining, electrifying, and many more descriptors that would be used to say that this release is something to behold.

With bone shearing riffs that cut away at you bowel splattering drum work joins them to rip you to shreds and bury you beneath the earth to feed the soil. Cutting through the wall of shredding riffs and machine gun fire drumming are every monstrous and inhuman vocals. From the guitar work to the drumming to the vocals to the overall menacing presence that each track gives off, each element within this release comes together nicely to create something undeniably powerful and potent. Forever unrelenting in its quest to expunge you from this mortal world, Back From The Grave, Straight In Your Face rolls from track to track smashing you to pieces unapologetically so.

This release is pure savagery and unrelenting death, just the way it should be. There is really nothing left that needs to be said other than Back From The Grave, Straight In Your Face is an absolute treat, and one hell of a fantastic release.

Back From The Grave, Straight In Your Face will be unleashed February 21 through Transcending Obscurity Records.

Check out the track The Fog from the upcoming release below!

Links To Follow:

Innards Bandcamp

Transcending Obscurity Official Site

Innards Facebook

Garden Of Eyes: Arcane Haze

February 11, 2020
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Summoned from their dark and dank grave comes Garden Of Eyes with their newest offering titled Arcane Haze. With four new tracks to its name plus the two track from their demo released in 2019, you are treated to six total tracks of ugly, grim filled, gut churning death metal. Played in the rotting vein of old-school death metal, Garden Of Eyes keep things filthy and down right lobotomizing. Ushering forth one track after the next, these creatures of death provide you with a skull hammering listen. Without reprieve, Arcane Haze marches forth unapologetically so, burying you underneath droves of sickening, wretched death.

Wicked and demented, Garden Of Eyes spew forth their sickening brand of vile death. Each of the six tracks that are present here are just as gutting and neck slashing as the last, as each one hunts you down only to drag you in to an early shallow grave. Never to cease, Arcane Haze ladles a true tormenting onslaught of unrepentant death upon you until you are finally buried and suffocating underneath it all. There is no fluff and filler here as what you get is pure death that rears its disfigured head only to lash out and hack you to pieces.

Gnarled and reeking of putrid rotting flesh, Garden Of Eyes barrels forth straight through your chest. Leaving nothing but viscera and bloodied slime in their wake, this ghoulish outfit tramples over everything and everyone in their way. With ever brain mashing drum work that is paired with buzzing viscera dripping riffs as well as ripping inhuman vocals, Garden Of Eyes offers up a true and ghastly brand of arcane death and horror. The overall rotting sound peels your skin and rots your flesh from bone, leaving you as nothing more than a husk ready for burial.

Arcane Haze is undeniably terrorizing and damning as it offers up nothing but six horrifying tracks of fetid death. Buzzing and flesh ripping, each track is just as potent as the last. Forever burying you under droves of bulldozing death, Arcane Haze lays you to rest among the rest of the unfortunate souls that were claimed before you. Through and through, Arcane Haze is a very solid and very heavy and addictive release.

Arcane Haze is out now through AHPN Records.

Links To Follow:

AHPN Records Bandcamp

Colosso: Apocalypse

February 9, 2020
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After forming in 2011, Portuguese death metal stalwarts Colosso have been working themselves to the bitter bone providing you with nothing but menacing and down right slaughtering death metal. With one demo, four full length releases and two EP’s, Colosso ushers forth their new era of destruction and mayhem with a brand new upcoming EP appropriately titled Apocalypse. This EP features four tracks that are as bludgeoning and skull destroying as you would come to expect from these corpse hoarders. Monstrous and lobotomizing, Colosso presents you with a sound that is utterly spine severing and brain mashing. However, as destructive as Apocalypse is, it is just as diverse. Apocalypse twists and turns offering up a new deadly sound one track right after the next forever keeping you on your toes as you await the next brutal hammering of death.

Colosso begins their new EP with an eight minute buzzing wall of putrid death titled Pestilence. This track is a slow burning death machine that churns and chugs along, dragging you down slowly through pits of despair and grisly torment. With the sound of flies buzzing behind the pure wall of gutting riffs and chest cracking drum work, you know that the end is nigh for you. Pestilence is a massive track, one that buries you underneath a wall of stagnant death and destruction until you are left as no more than a bitter pile of flesh and crumbled bone.

Following the ever destructive opening track, comes a potent juggernaut titled War. Unlike Pestilence, War is a rapid fire skull smashing death metal offering that aims for your throat from the drop of the first note. With machine gun drum work, riffs that cleave your head clean off your shoulders and vocals that are incredibly monstrous, War treats you to a blitzkrieg of lobotomizing metal. Never does this track cease or relent as it presses onward, trampling over anything and everyone in its path, leaving nothing but wreckage, mayhem and bloodied corpses in its wake. War is a razor sharp unrepentant track that tears you apart leaving you unrecognizable in a pool of your own viscera.

After War’s rampage comes to a close, Death crops up in its wake presenting you with something truly unique and different. Death is the most “subdued” track of the four as you are greeted with cleanly almost angelic vocals. Death is a definite break from the two bone crumbling and flesh flaying offerings that came before it. This track truly shows the diversity of Colosso as they present you with an entirely different sound than that of what you had come to expect by just hearing the first two tracks. Death has a more progressive sound to it which is refreshing and welcoming after experiencing the artery bursting tracks that came before it.

Rounding the EP out comes the fourth member of the apocalypse, Famine. Famine comes at you with yet another different sound that what you have heard through the first three tracks. With that said, this offering is another offering that leaves you bloodied and eviscerated. Famine has a terrifying foreboding atmosphere about it that leaves you with chills and nightmares to come for some time. Forever destructive and tormenting, Famine leaves you cleaved in two once the final note has rang through. Famine is the final nail in your coffin as you are finally dragged asunder to your final resting place.

Overall, Apocalypse is a great EP. It is diverse and refreshing as Colosso offers up something unique within each of the four tracks that they provide for you. Each offering has its own identity and twists making them incredibly memorable. Apocalypse leaves you wanting more and more as Colosso provides you with something here that is a truly great and monolithic EP.

Apocalypse will be unleashed February 14 through Transcending Obscurity Records

Links To Follow:

Colosso Official Bandcamp

Transcending Obscurity Official Site

Colosso Facebook

Sewer Dwellers: Fate Of A Maggot

December 7, 2019
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In a heavy mashing of death metal and deathcore, Sewer Dwellers offer up a devastating release by the name of Fate Of A Maggot. This five track EP features nothing but an amalgamation of death metal and deathcore that aims to tear your head from your shoulders and leave you as nothing more than a hollowed husk. From beginning to gnarled end you are presented with nothing but heavy, neck snapping metal that leaves you broken and bruised once all is said and done, and that is exactly how Fate Of A Maggot leaves you. With spine bending riffs that are paired with skull smashing drum work and visceral grit filled vocals, Sewer Dwellers offers up something that is entirely destructive and unrepentant.

With precision and expert execution, Sewer Dwellers picks you apart and smashes you in to the earth six feet deep before you know it. Each of the five tracks that are present here are as potent and powerful as the last making this entire release to be a wholly deadly and devastating offering. You are never really given any reprieve or solace from the utter slaughtering that you experience as Sewer Dwellers marches forth from cut to cut never blinking an eye as they rip you to shreds and stomp over the hoard of cadavers that they have accumulated.

Sewer Dwellers reign utter devastation and wreckage upon you as they offer up nothing but unrepentant and unrelenting deathcore riddled death metal. Through the five tracks that are harbored within this title, each one of them is as skull sanding and chest cracking as the last. Never are you to see the light of day again as Sewer Dwellers expunges you from this very earth. As short as this offering is, it more than makes up for its length in quality. The tracks that are present within this release are all as good as the last as each one offers you something that is purely devastating and bone crumbling.

Fate Of A Maggot doesn’t pick you apart, it smashes you in to the earth until you are nothing left other than a red stain. This release is unrelenting, heavy and spine shattering. Anvil heavy and skull crushing, Fate Of A Maggot has it all within only five cuts of nothing but pure devastation and wreckage.

Check out the official video for Scythicon and Coils of Hatred below!

Links To Follow:

Sewer Dwellers Bandcamp

Verthebral: Abysmal Decay

December 3, 2019
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In all consuming death, crypt stomping madness and reaper summoning sickness, Verthebral bursts from the gates of their rotting tombs to offer up a fetid release titled Abysmal Decay. In ten total tracks these monsters from Paraguay offer up nothing but terrorizing and twisted death that tears you limb from limb with the passing of each second. Stomping forth with a legion of death and decay, Verthebral presents you with an unrelenting and unrepentant sound that tears your head from your shoulders. Each of the ten grave desecrating cuts are just as abysmal, cutting and flesh consuming as the last. Never are you to find an escape once you press play as Abysmal Decay leaves you buried in a shallow unmarked grave once the final bloodied note has crossed your speakers.

Forever savage, Verthebral treats you to an incredibly barbaric and bleeding raw death metal sound that is not to be forgotten. Coming complete with vein lacerating riffs and hammering drum work alongside monstrous growled vocals, Verthebral ushers forth ten complete tracks of carnage and wreckage. There isn’t a track within this release that is lacking in any way as each one is as brutal and frontal lobe smashing as the last. Crushing you under its sheer weight, Abysmal Decay buries you beneath the soil with the rest of its unfortunate victims.

Life stalking and totally eviscerating, Abysmal Decay butchers you from beginning to end as it provides you with torrents of torrential death. Ripping you limb from limb and stripping flesh from bone to dry you of your crimson fluid, this release is a monster; one that does not bat an eye as it tramples over its next victim. Raw, unfiltered and unbridled death and destruction is what is captured here within these ten tracks and each one is executed and performed as well as the last. Abysmal Decay is a well rounded death machine that will cleanse you of your life as it twists you into mangled decay before you know it.

This offering is a brutal, barbaric and savage one as it never relents only to pour on the bloodied savagery one track right after the next. The evisceration begins at the drop of the first note only for it to subside with the calling out of the final gnarled note. With this offering Verthebral has created something wicked, damning, malevolent and much more. On top of all of that, this release is memorable as it latches on to you forever to rattle around in your mind for some time to come. Not only is Abysmal Decay as heavy and brutal as it is, but it is just as addictive and memorable making it to be truly well rounded and stellar offering.

Abysmal Decay will be unleashed December 27 through Transcending Obscurity Records.

Check out the title track from the upcoming release here

Links To Follow:

Verthebral Bandcamp

Verthebral Facebook

Transcending Obscurity Official Site