From the piano, whispers and ominous chants of its intro, to a series of raging melodic chord progressions threaded through its metallic c...

From Crotch to Crown might arguably be the best death metal album title I've spied in some time, so coupled with the retro torture ch...

Resonance: some albums achieve it, and some are born from its womb. The latest eponymous title from Finland's W.A.I.L. could confiden...

Abandoning the Oni devil masks of their previous album covers for something more sleek and contemporary, one might also assume the music o...

What separates Andrew Lampe's Wakedead Gathering from the lion's share of xeroxed morbid old school death metal approximations ha...

I don't know what it is about traditional string instrumentation (violins, etc) and Italian metal bands that so often works for me, bu...

Earlier run-ins with Bleeding Fist 's 2010-2011 EP material did not prove illuminating, but this Death's Old Stench compilation, ...

The mass invocation of throwback death metal these past 5-10 years has proven a double-edged sword, simultaneously reminding us of what it...

Rogga Johansson's death metal proliferation certainly leaves him at the disadvantage of spreading himself a little thin, and Ribspread...

It is much to expect a metal album, or really any album, to take one on a journey, but the Hail Spirit Noir sophomore Oi Magoi surpasses...