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Hypoxia: Abhorrent Disease

April 26, 2019
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In the names of death, disease and destruction, Hypoxia presents us with their brand new offering titled Abhorrent Disease. Within the ten tracks that are offered here, you are gifted with forty total minutes of death metal bludgeoning that will leave you as nothing more than a bloodied husk. Never to relent, Hypoxia charges forth from the very get go to provide you with some of the most deadly marrow draining death metal. No bullshit is to be found here as Hypoxia march forth with malevolent and blood thirsty intent to offer up nothing but pure gnarled death metal.

With no hesitation Hypoxia blasts straight through your speakers with their brand of pure bludgeoning death. You are given no time to prepare for the skull blasting onslaught that ensues once you press play as these corpse hoarders summon the filth a disease early. Never does Hypoxia relent or cease in their vein draining assault as they rumble forth from track to track suffocating you under droves of fetid offal severed remains. Abhorrent Disease will pick you apart track by track, minute by minute as the bone shattering death just does not stop for forty straight minutes.

Once you press play you become attack from all angles quickly and relentlessly. Early on you feel the wrath and the blood curdling blood thirst as these heathens quickly descend upon you stripping your skin from flesh and flesh from bone. This juggernaut of death just does not quit until all has been laid to waste and you have been left in a hallowed grave. Abhorrent Disease is straight forward in its assault ushering forth a sound that is of pure devastation and malevolence.

With great technicality, precision and unparalleled brutality, Hypoxia provide you with an eviscerating and life removing sound that cannot be denied. Abhorrent Disease is a monolith of death and disease and will surely stand among the best death metal records to be released this year.

Abhorrent Disease will be unleashed April 26 through Selfmadegod Records.

Check out the official music video for the track Condemned To The Abyss below!

Links To Follow:

Selfmadegod Records Official Site

Selfmadegod Records Bandcamp

Hypoxia Facebook

Goregäng: Neon Graves

April 19, 2019
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In the name of crusty, grinding death, Goregäng emerges from their rotten tomb to provide you with their upcoming twelve track flesh melter titled Neon Graves. Goregäng settles in to their torrid skull blasting pace early, never to let you prepare for their sickening onslaught of pure ravenous death metal. Each of the twelve tracks that are present within this release ooze putrescence and undulating horror as each one provides you with nothing but wicked and all consuming death.

Neon Graves is a record that grips you with the bony hand of death right from the get go, never to let your attention sway from the carnage that is unfolding before you. Try as you might, you cannot not head bang to these tracks as you immediately begin to bash your brain against its cranial tomb. Neon Graves is an incredibly infectious and memorable record that will infect your mind for some time to come. Each of the twelve tracks here are perfectly crafted hymns of death that are undeniable and unforgettable.

As each track chugs along, you find yourself consumed and enveloped in death. With malevolence and malignancy, Goregäng marches forth from track to track presenting you with nothing but pure twisted death metal. With the twelve tracks running on the shorter side, each track is a potent and venomous offering that aim straight for your throat right out of the gate only to stop the hacking until your head has been severed from your neck. This vein draining record is something to behold as it offers up twelve excellent tracks of pure death one right after another.

Through its twelve tracks of horror, Neon Graves will leave you as nothing more than an eviscerated hollow husk. This release is a vile and twisted offering, one that is executed perfectly to provide you with nothing but top notch death. One track right after the next, they get better and better. Neon Graves is simply a fantastic record that is so skillfully done and crafted that it would be criminal to pass over.

Neon Graves will be unleashed May 20 through Transcending Obscurity Records.

Check out the official track titled Goregäng from the upcoming record below!

Links To Follow:

Goregäng Bandcamp

Transcending Obscurity Official Site

Blutfeld: Kingdom of Mine

April 16, 2019
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Established in 2015 in the dark, dense forests of Sweden is Blutfeld. After four years of work, Blutfeld is ready to unleash their debut EP titled Kingdom of Mine. This offering comes complete with six wicked tracks of melodic death metal. Not only is Kingdom of Minewholly melodious, but it is just as atmospheric and gripping as well. Through each track you feel as though you are set right in the middle of the story that Blutfeld conveys through their deadly assault. Each track is palpable and engaging, making you come back for more melodious death.

Kingdom of Mine opens with the intro titled Fanfare, which sounds almost exactly as the title suggests. Once Fanfare comes to an end, the second track Natural Born Leader appears from the battlefield to grace you with your first foray in to the realm in which Blutfeld has created. This first full track embodies everything as described above. It is melodic and atmospheric death metal done excellently. Natural Born Leader begins with an up tempo march through the mist providing you with menacing riffs that are backed by ever pressing drumming and unearthly vocals. Half way through the track, Blutfeld slows things down to a crawl providing you with a completely different sound than what you had heard in the first half of the track. The second half of the cut crawls forth with a more atmospheric approach complete with excellent clean clean vocals and a gripping solo, only for Blutfeld to break that mold once more to provide you with their established up tempo death metal march.

Natural Born Leader has everything in it that you will come to expect from the remaining tracks on Kingdom of Mine, and Blutfeld delivers. Through the remaining four offerings, Blutfeld provides you with great melodious death metal that is backed by great ambiance that makes every track palpable and highly engaging. Each offering here is just as good as the track(s) that came before it. Through each track you will hear something that you have not heard in previous tracks as Blutfeld does a great job of providing you with diversity and variety, forever keeping you interested and listening to their great brand of death metal.

With great musicianship, great song writing, great ambiance and atmosphere, Blutfeld provides you with a listen that is entertaining, engaging and memorable. The way in which Blutfeld writes their tracks makes you feel as though you are in the thick of the story that they are telling. Each of the six tracks that are present within this title are performed and executed very well, making this to be an overall cohesive and well rounded offering that will get stuck in your head for some time to come.

Kingdom of Mine is a very solid debut outing for these Swedish death fiends, and with hints of Amon Amarth running through the veins of each track, you really cannot go wrong. Kingdom of Mine has it all through this record, and if you are looking for overall solid and entertaining melodic death metal, you don’t have to look much further than this EP.

Kingdom of Mine will be unleashed April 20.

Links To Follow:

Blutfeld Bandcamp

Blutfeld Facebook

Pestilent Death: Chapters of Depravity

March 30, 2019
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**Pestilent Death:** *Chapters of Depravity*

Ushering forth a brand of worm infested, depraved and unsettling death is appropriately named Pestilent Death. Their newest offering to spawn from the grave is titled Chapters of Depravity which offers up eight new tracks of nothing but rotting, filthy death metal. These eight odes of flesh ripping death are just that. They are straight forward death metal tracks that sever flesh from bone only to drain the marrow and bleed your veins dry. Each track is just as sickening and torturous as the last as they each march forth with malevolent intent.

Ceaseless and pummeling, Chapters of Depravity offers no reprieve or solace from its putrid brand of death. From beginning to end you come face to face with brain mashing offerings one right after another suffocating you under droves of diseased remains and fetid entrails. With gutting riffs that are only to be backed by chest caving drumming and bloodied vocals, each track makes a deadly and sinister case. These offerings aim for the throat from the get go, never to relent until your head has been severed from your body.

Pestilent Death’s overall sound is potent and venomous as they flesh out a raw and ancient sound that sounds as though it has been just recently unearthed. As a whole, Chapters of Depravity is a relentless and every brain splattering release as it doles out one gut slitting track after the next, burying you under hoards of diseased corpses and putrid offal. This release is truly vile and wicked as it is packed with disgusting, agonizing and torturous death.

Chapters of Depravity aims to send you to the grave where worms can feast and infest your remains. Each cut harbored within the title is a vicious and nasty piece of work that eviscerates and lobotomizes without a second thought. These blood curdling tracks are pure death as there is nothing here to compromise the unholy bone crunching sound of straight forward gnarled death metal. This is a great release through and through as it provides you with great musicianship, bloodied vocals and a bleeding raw production that is wholly unforgettable. Chapters of Depravity is a release not to be looked over.

Links To Follow:

Pestilent Death Bandamp

Tenebro: Demo

March 26, 2019
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In gruesome death metal fashion, Tenebro offers up a sound that comes complete with chugging, skull grinding riffs coupled with ever chest cracking drumming, spine rattling bass lines and vocals that seem to be utterly inhuman. Within their demo, Tenebro offers up three sickening and terrorizing tracks. As short as this offering it it certainly does not skimp on brutality and gut churning intensity. From beginning to end you feel as though you are being led to your grave for you to lie in it nothing but a bloodied pulp once all is said and done.

These Italian reapers waste little time getting you acquainted with their overall raw and pulverizing sound as they usher forth their opener immediately. Once the demo begins you know that you are in for quite the grisly treat as Tenebro bring forth terror and great malevolence from the drop of the first gnarled note. Each of the three tracks here are as deadly and blood curdling as the last making this demo out to be purely barbaric and eviscerating.

This is straight forward bulldozing death metal and nothing but. There is nothing here to compromise the overall blood letting death metal visceral sound as Tenebro is as straight forward as you could imagine. Tenebro lumbers from track to track never to gift you with a moment of silence as they usher forth their next offering aimed to bring you to your maker. Ever vein draining and ever skull smashing, Tenebro is ceaseless in their assault and unapologetically so. Each of the three cuts here slash deep and gnaw at your flesh until it is stripped away completely. These are nasty and gnarled offerings, ones that can possess and mutilate.

Overall, this demo is a very solid one. It is short but even so it is gritty and as pulverizing as you would hope. In their straight forward death metal approach, Tenebro offer up something here that is undeniably heavy and unmistakably gruesome death metal. This is a very solid demo through and through, one that churns the innards and is sure to please the ears of death metal fans all over.

This demo will be released through Desert Wastelands Productions May 1.

Links To Follow:

Desert Wastelands Bandcamp

Desert Wastelands Facebook

Desert Wastelands Official Site

Ripped To Shreds: Eight Immortals Feast

March 23, 2019
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Just shy of a year after unleashing their debut full length, Ripped To Shreds is back with a three track demo that goes by the title Eight Immortals Feast. This beast of a demo features two brand new tracks as well as a cover of Insect Warfare’s Pestilent Excruciation. Coming in at under ten minutes total, Eight Immortals Feast offers up as much punishment in as little time possible. The two new tracks are precise flesh rippers that offer no reprieve or room to breathe as they come at you in deadly waves of death and despair. From the drop of the first note you understand that you are in for a devilish and compromising affair that aims to take your life before the final second ticks off of the run time.

With throat slashing riffs and bone shaking drumming only to be coupled with cadaver awakening vocals, each of the two new tracks here bleed your veins and cut straight to the bone. These bone gnawing tracks accost you from all fronts from beginning to end, testing to see if you remain standing after all is said and done. Each track is just as cutting and malevolent as the other as each one offers up nothing but bleeding raw and brutalizing death for your consumption.

As short as Eight Immortals Feast is, it packs more than a brain splattering punch. When one track ends, the other begins just as quickly never to gift you any breathing room, only to suffocate you under droves of death. Eight Immortals Feast is a fast, ever pressing offering, one that grips you by the throat from the very beginning. Destructive and appendage severing, this demo marches forth leaving nothing but bodies and carnage in its wake.

Once again, Ripped To Shreds impresses. This demo leaves you wanting more malignant death which ultimately leaves you putting this demo on repeat for some time to come. This is an engaging and overall eviscerating release that packs enough grisly content in it for you to keep coming back to. This is pure death that reeks of carnage and putrefaction, and it surely will please your gnarled ear drums.

Eight Immortals Feast is out now through Nameless Grave Records.

Links To Follow:

Ripped To Shreds Bandcamp

Nameless Grave Records Bandcamp

Ripped To Shreds Facebook

Nameless Grave Records Facebook

Masochist: Chaos of World Possession

March 22, 2019
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Taking ques from 90’s US death metal, Masochist storms forth with malice and malevolence with their debut offering Chaos of World Possession. This EP is packed to the gut bursting point with six bone cutting and flesh ripping tracks that are sure to leave you a bloodied mess once all is said and done. Without taking a look at the release date of Chaos of World Possession, one would think that it was in fact released in the era of 90’s death metal. The overall sound is raw yet technical and deadly making this EP out to be a true terror and menace.

There is no reprieve from the vein draining onslaught in which Masochist serves up on a bloodied platter. From the very beginning you become trapped in their viscera soaked maelstrom of death and pure chaos. From track one to track six, you come under siege one track right after the next of flesh gnawing death. This relentless EP is just that. You are not granted a moment of solace until the final blood soaked note has rang through as Masochist marches forth from track to track providing you with nothing but wicked and malignant death.

With gut churning riffs, savage bass lines, heavy handed tumultuous drumming and unearthly throat cutting vocals, Masochist has it all here. Each track that is harbored behind the title here is just as vicious and gut ripping as the last. As a whole, this EP is pure savagery and barbarity as it chips away at your skull and lets the blood from your veins. Chaos of World Possession is a relentless release, one that eviscerates, maims and aims for the throat, only to tear and shred until you are nothing but a bloody pulp.

Chaos of World Possessionis a vile and gruesome release, one that accosts you from beginning to end, suffocating you under the droves of viscera and pure malignant death. The gnarled, chewed up sound that this release emits is a welcome one, one that you know is filled with barbaric savagery. Through and through, this debut EP impresses and the more that you listen, the more that it does impress. You cannot go wrong here with Masochist and their EP Chaos of World Possession as it is a pure, bloodied and filthy death metal offering to the tee. This is sure to please your gnarled ears.

Links To Follow:

Masochist Bandcamp

Masochist Facebook

Masochist Instagram

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

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