Celestial Sanctuary came onto my radar with their 2021 debut Soul Diminished , it had some pretty distinctive artwork and fit right in with...

To the Dead was another darn good album from a band that has yet to fail me, but I wasn't completely in love with the production as I w...

In many ways, War Remains just feels like a Part II of Kill Grid from 2021. The black & white cover artwork from Joe Petagno, which is...

Bitter Scorn is little more than a bite-sized after mint to the phenomenal Never Surrender record,  Deströyer 666 riding high on another ...

I guess my love for Abigail is so intense that just about any album cover with a black horse-drawn carriage is bound to pique my attention,...

With the news that Cirith Ungol has retired from touring after 2024, one can only wonder what the future might hold for the studio side of t...

Sodom pays tribute to its own year of formation with a moderately paced new track, lyrics that are self-referential but not cheesy as you...

Vendetta 's earlier 80s material had a lot of personality to it, and Brain Damage stands as one of my favorites in that second or third...

Reconstruction is essentially the leftovers for those of who don't have a particular version of the Modern Primitive full-length to ch...

I haven't been enamored with everything Varathron has ever put out ( Crowsreign , I'm looking at you), but they've always struc...

Doom is perhaps the most natural fit of all metal styles for the horror aesthetics, partially because it hails from 50+ years ago to align w...

I dropped off the Carnifex train roughly a decade ago. Not that I was ever a paying passenger, but I had followed the Californians along to...

England's Ryan Willis has become somewhat of a commodity of late within the horror/death metal underground, launching a number of acts s...

Rather than making some major career choice and consigning one of their two styles to oblivion or a side project, Blood Incantation instead...

I won't promise you that Parasitic Infection is some extinction level event for the bro-core death metal scene of the 2020s, but this r...

Boundless Domain is the exact point at which it feels like Creeping Death would need to evolve its sound or flex a little more in order to ...

Homicidal Ecstasy took a little more time for me to come around to than its predecessors. While the style here is largely the same, there w...

With their rapidly escalating popularity among the trending non-tech US death metal upstarts that include Gatecreeper, Creeping Death, 200 S...

I was a little surprised to see another Autopsy record so hot on the heels of its predecessor, but as a fan of Morbidity Triumphant , I had...

Crytopsy 's drummer Flo Mounier is the same age as I am, but while I'm waking up with the aches of pains that grind deeper with ever...