Dark Contagion is the sophomore full-length outing from Dutch death metallers Fondlecorpse , who released a record some years before it tha...

If I had any reservations or mixed memories of the third or fourth albums, there could be no such confusion with Viige Urh , a record I fell...

Deep Called Upon Deep , the ninth full-length from Satyricon , is one I struggled with a little upon release. It brought back the full on bl...

Toxik was another of those 80s thrash hopefuls that I'm pretty sure most of us old heads never thought we'd hear from again, so whe...

Septicflesh have become such solid composers, and so synonymous within the symphonic death metal medium that it's hard to believe they ...

On the surface, The Pact  comes across pretty cool, with a simplistic and iconic sort of cover that aesthetically transports me back to the ...

For the Demented is easily the better of the 2017 Annihilator releases, a studio album that, like Suicide Society before it, tries to mode...

There's a point at which a long-surviving band's live products just sort of blend together, and unfortunately with Annihilator that...

Minneriket 's third album swerves away from original material to pay tribute to one of his favorite artists, and I'm willing to bet ...

The formidable Kam Lee is one of death metal's most prolific vocalists, and while not all of the projects he involves himself in are top...

Take just about everything from Droid 's Disconnected EP the year before, and then make it louder, better produced, more intricately de...

You only need a few minutes into "Knights of the Burning Crypt" to realize that With Primeval Force is truth in advertising, a mor...

Whether you love them or hate them, one of the boons of the popularity of Sweden's Ghost is how they kind of helped open up the integra...

Preachers at the Breeze  seems like an act of pure redundancy after The Metal Mass - Live from the year before, with the caveat that this o...

While his previous band Battle Beast continues to drift into an almost pure popular arena metal outlet, playing generic, unchallenging riff...

Hammer of the Witches in 2015 was a pivotal album for Cradle of Filth in that it garnered them a lot of the respect they had been missing ...

Beyond the fact that the A utopsy vs. Bloodbath split automatically warrants attention for featuring a pair of the genre's hottest comm...

First off, even putting aside the idea that I'm a long-term devotee of Helloween , I have to praise the band for putting together this e...

Seasons of the Black arrives about one year after The Devil Strikes Again , and it arrives blazing with some of Marco's most technical,...

Zero Days frontloads what I believe to be its least compelling track, "However It May Ends", one of the heavier here to be sure...