BENIGHTED – “Ekbom” (Review)
We’re barely close to the end of the first quarter and we’ve already been spoiled by so much good extreme metal and its myriad of subgenres. Deathgrind has always been…
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Saif Shaikh
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"Engineer, Doctor, Guitarist, Writer"
HOUR OF PENANCE – “Devotion” (Review)
Modern Death Metal is a quickly vanishing subgenre. With so many offshoots veering off and melding with other genres, as well as the rampant advance of the -core influence, the…
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HIDEOUS DIVINITY – “Unexist” (Review)
I will be the first one to admit, that with the sheer volume of records coming out each year by so many bands in so many genres, subgenres, and microgenres,…
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ABORTED – “Vault Of Horrors” (Review)
You know Aborted, I know Aborted, anyone who’s anyone in the extreme metal scene knows Aborted. A band with a catalog at a baker’s dozen, we are at their twelfth…
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JOB FOR A COWBOY – “Moon Healer” (Review)
It isn’t very often that a band comes along, progressing, nay excelling through their genre evolution across various records, forever building upon their sound, while simultaneously maintaining their fanbase across…
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EXOCRINE – “Legend” (Review)
The Bordeaux bruisers in Exocrine kick off the 2024 technical death metal calendar with their fifth studio record Legend, following their previous release 2020’s The Hybrid Suns. I am no…
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SUFFOCATION – “Hymns From The Apocrypha” (Review)
As a deathcore s@#thead, I count myself fortunate to be put through the wringer by assessing household names in the death metal scene which formed the firm foundation upon which…
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CARNIFEX – “Necromanteum” (Review)
San Diego’s Carnifex could very well be included in the wave of deathcore bands that really pushed the subgenre fusion of death metal and hardcore out of the DIY scene…
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CANNIBAL CORPSE – “Chaos Horrific” (Review)
Being chosen to review a Cannibal Corpse is going straight to my Metalhead resume! A band that needs no introduction to folks even outside the realm of extreme metal, Cannibal…
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THY ART IS MURDER – “Godlike” (Review)
I will make no excuses for my nauseating elitism when it comes to Deathcore, and believe that I am steeped enough in the genre to be pedantic and nitpicky, especially…
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