Masquerage, led by Kimmo Perämäki—known from Spiritus Mortis and Celesty has released a new single, ‘The Devil To Pay’ from their upcoming sixth album Atomic Spies. The band comments:“When nothing seems to go right, the coffee spills and the day spirals out of control again. The Devil To Pay is a heavy metal strike about those moments when setbacks swell into full-blown chaos […]
Earthblood’s new single “Hatchet in Hand” is continuing in the same footsteps as the previous EP, embracing the more melodic Heavy Metal soundscape, but still tightly holding on to the bands key characteristics like: The fuzz guitar rumbling, the dirty bass growls and the drums beating like thunder. The song tells about a man with […]
Swedish melodic rock force The Devil Wears Nada proudly announces the release of their new single ‘Elephant In The Room‘ on April 24th . In conjunction with the single are details of their highly anticipated sophomore album, ‘In Lust We Thrust‘, arriving on CD and limited-edition coloured vinyl via Eönian Records on Friday, July 3, […]
Today, new/old Swedish black metallers Daemonium Regni stream the entirety of their highly anticipated debut album, Daemonium Regnin, at the Black Metal Promotion YouTube channel. Set for international release on April 17th via Darkness Shall Rise Productions, hear Daemonium Regni‘s Daemonium Regni in its entirety exclusively HERE. Ominous, somber, and foreboding… Daemonium Regni is the new solo-project from Micke Broberg of Unanimated: dark and epic black […]
With the surprise album Lose Your Self almost a week old, Enter Shikari have released the official video for the single Find Out The Hard Way. Filmed in South London by Jasper Visuals, the track premiered on YouTube last night.
The track was met with much love last night. “Love how this band can make any genre they set their mind to,” one comment read, “but have never changed what they preach. The world needs their message.”
Tickets for the band’s unmissable intimate album release shows completely sold out in a matter of seconds yesterday, proving that Enter Shikari’s impressive backing is still growing.
“Not enough love from the national media,” another comment read. “A proper British band working their socks off, they should be broadcast from the rooftops.”
The Dubin show this month is also sold out, and tickets for their November tour are selling fast.
As Rou said earlier, the aim is to give people the chance to hear an Enter Shikari record like never before, as a cohesive whole.
“We want people to go on a proper journey with this album,” he said, “and see where it takes them. No lead up, no singles, and no explanation. Forcing the listener to actually listen, without being drip-fed ideas out of context, or spoon-fed explanations. We simply present it all, for the listener to immerse themself in.”
With a UK Mid-Week Chart placing of Number 13, MetalTalk are expecting that this week sees a further charge up the table, as this refreshing way of releasing music is a pleasing change from the waterfall-based norm.
“We got the No.1 album on our last record,” Rou said. “This is simply about the music being presented in a natural way.
“Despite turning out to be one of our darkest and heaviest albums to date, it also preaches hope and offers answers. Shikari will always offer hope because, without hope, there is no action. We’ll just always offer it with a dose of realism.”
Enter Shikari have surprise released their new album Lose Your Self, available now digitally and physically worldwide via So Recordings. “We’re delighted to present Lose Your Self,”
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Enter Shikari have surprise released their new album Lose Your Self, available now digitally and physically worldwide via So Recordings. “We’re delighted to present Lose Your Self,” Rou Reynolds said, “and give people the chance to hear a Shikari record like never before – as a cohesive whole. We want people to go on a proper journey with this album and see where it takes them.”
Released without prior singles or promotion, the album spans 12 tracks exploring themes of desolation and hope, delivering one of the band’s heaviest and most introspective records to date.
To celebrate the release, they’ve announced a run of three intimate shows at The Cavern Club in Liverpool on 23rd April, The Fighting Cocks in Kingston on 24th April and Signature Brew in Blackhorse Road, London on 25th April. Tickets go on sale on 15th April from entershikari.os.fan.
Enter Shikari have surprise released their new album Lose Your Self, available now digitally and physically worldwide via So Recordings. “We’re delighted to present Lose Your Self,”
Event Details
Enter Shikari have surprise released their new album Lose Your Self, available now digitally and physically worldwide via So Recordings. “We’re delighted to present Lose Your Self,” Rou Reynolds said, “and give people the chance to hear a Shikari record like never before – as a cohesive whole. We want people to go on a proper journey with this album and see where it takes them.”
Released without prior singles or promotion, the album spans 12 tracks exploring themes of desolation and hope, delivering one of the band’s heaviest and most introspective records to date.
To celebrate the release, they’ve announced a run of three intimate shows at The Cavern Club in Liverpool on 23rd April, The Fighting Cocks in Kingston on 24th April and Signature Brew in Blackhorse Road, London on 25th April. Tickets go on sale on 15th April from entershikari.os.fan.
Enter Shikari have surprise released their new album Lose Your Self, available now digitally and physically worldwide via So Recordings. “We’re delighted to present Lose Your Self,”
Event Details
Enter Shikari have surprise released their new album Lose Your Self, available now digitally and physically worldwide via So Recordings. “We’re delighted to present Lose Your Self,” Rou Reynolds said, “and give people the chance to hear a Shikari record like never before – as a cohesive whole. We want people to go on a proper journey with this album and see where it takes them.”
Released without prior singles or promotion, the album spans 12 tracks exploring themes of desolation and hope, delivering one of the band’s heaviest and most introspective records to date.
To celebrate the release, they’ve announced a run of three intimate shows at The Cavern Club in Liverpool on 23rd April, The Fighting Cocks in Kingston on 24th April and Signature Brew in Blackhorse Road, London on 25th April. Tickets go on sale on 15th April from entershikari.os.fan.
Enter Shikari have surprise released their new album Lose Your Self, available now digitally and physically worldwide via So Recordings. “We’re delighted to present Lose Your Self,”
Event Details
Enter Shikari have surprise released their new album Lose Your Self, available now digitally and physically worldwide via So Recordings. “We’re delighted to present Lose Your Self,” Rou Reynolds said, “and give people the chance to hear a Shikari record like never before – as a cohesive whole. We want people to go on a proper journey with this album and see where it takes them.”
Released without prior singles or promotion, the album spans 12 tracks exploring themes of desolation and hope, delivering one of the band’s heaviest and most introspective records to date.
To celebrate the release, they’ve announced a run of three intimate shows at The Cavern Club in Liverpool on 23rd April, The Fighting Cocks in Kingston on 24th April and Signature Brew in Blackhorse Road, London on 25th April. Tickets go on sale on 15th April from entershikari.os.fan.
Enter Shikari have confirmed a major UK and EU headline arena run for November 2026 – billed as their biggest tour to date – alongside an Australian headline tour in
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Enter Shikari have confirmed a major UK and EU headline arena run for November 2026 – billed as their biggest tour to date – alongside an Australian headline tour in May.
Enter Shikari have confirmed a major UK and EU headline arena run for November 2026 – billed as their biggest tour to date – alongside an Australian headline tour in
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Enter Shikari have confirmed a major UK and EU headline arena run for November 2026 – billed as their biggest tour to date – alongside an Australian headline tour in May.
Enter Shikari have confirmed a major UK and EU headline arena run for November 2026 – billed as their biggest tour to date – alongside an Australian headline tour in
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Enter Shikari have confirmed a major UK and EU headline arena run for November 2026 – billed as their biggest tour to date – alongside an Australian headline tour in May.
Enter Shikari have confirmed a major UK and EU headline arena run for November 2026 – billed as their biggest tour to date – alongside an Australian headline tour in
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Enter Shikari have confirmed a major UK and EU headline arena run for November 2026 – billed as their biggest tour to date – alongside an Australian headline tour in May.
Enter Shikari have confirmed a major UK and EU headline arena run for November 2026 – billed as their biggest tour to date – alongside an Australian headline tour in
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Enter Shikari have confirmed a major UK and EU headline arena run for November 2026 – billed as their biggest tour to date – alongside an Australian headline tour in May.
Enter Shikari have confirmed a major UK and EU headline arena run for November 2026 – billed as their biggest tour to date – alongside an Australian headline tour in
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Enter Shikari have confirmed a major UK and EU headline arena run for November 2026 – billed as their biggest tour to date – alongside an Australian headline tour in May.
Enter Shikari have confirmed a major UK and EU headline arena run for November 2026 – billed as their biggest tour to date – alongside an Australian headline tour in
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Enter Shikari have confirmed a major UK and EU headline arena run for November 2026 – billed as their biggest tour to date – alongside an Australian headline tour in May.
Danish Death Metal powerhouse Baest return to the UK later this year as part of their Colossal European Headline Tour 2026.
Released in August 2025, Colossal saw Baest return with a sound that is surprisingly different. “With repeated plays, this album has grown on me hugely,” MetalTalk’s Paul Hutchings wrote in his album review. “It is definitely lighter than earlier works, but it is still heavy as a bus full of elephants, and still high-quality Heavy Metal.”
“As a band, you must mature a little and figure out that you have to write songs for yourself,” Baest guitarist Svend Karlsson said, “and that way of thinking has brought the best out of us. When we talked to Tue [Madsen – producer] about it, we called it Ozzy Death Metal.”
The tour will hit key cities including Berlin, Prague, London, Dublin, and Hamburg, alongside festival appearances at Metalheadz Village Festival and Metal Experience Fest. Support for the tour will be announced at a later date.
Danish Death Metal powerhouse Baest return to the UK later this year as part of their Colossal European Headline Tour 2026.
Released in August 2025, Colossal saw Naest return with a
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Danish Death Metal powerhouse Baest return to the UK later this year as part of their Colossal European Headline Tour 2026.
Released in August 2025, Colossal saw Naest return with a sound that is surprisingly different. “With repeated plays, this album has grown on me hugely,” MetalTalk’s Paul Hutchings wrote in his album review. “It is definitely lighter than earlier works, but it is still heavy as a bus full of elephants, and still high-quality Heavy Metal.”
Danish Death Metal powerhouse Baest return to the UK later this year as part of their Colossal European Headline Tour 2026.
Released in August 2025, Colossal saw Naest return with a
Event Details
Danish Death Metal powerhouse Baest return to the UK later this year as part of their Colossal European Headline Tour 2026.
Released in August 2025, Colossal saw Naest return with a sound that is surprisingly different. “With repeated plays, this album has grown on me hugely,” MetalTalk’s Paul Hutchings wrote in his album review. “It is definitely lighter than earlier works, but it is still heavy as a bus full of elephants, and still high-quality Heavy Metal.”
Danish Death Metal powerhouse Baest return to the UK later this year as part of their Colossal European Headline Tour 2026.
Released in August 2025, Colossal saw Naest return with a
Event Details
Danish Death Metal powerhouse Baest return to the UK later this year as part of their Colossal European Headline Tour 2026.
Released in August 2025, Colossal saw Naest return with a sound that is surprisingly different. “With repeated plays, this album has grown on me hugely,” MetalTalk’s Paul Hutchings wrote in his album review. “It is definitely lighter than earlier works, but it is still heavy as a bus full of elephants, and still high-quality Heavy Metal.”
Danish Death Metal powerhouse Baest return to the UK later this year as part of their Colossal European Headline Tour 2026.
Released in August 2025, Colossal saw Naest return with a
Event Details
Danish Death Metal powerhouse Baest return to the UK later this year as part of their Colossal European Headline Tour 2026.
Released in August 2025, Colossal saw Naest return with a sound that is surprisingly different. “With repeated plays, this album has grown on me hugely,” MetalTalk’s Paul Hutchings wrote in his album review. “It is definitely lighter than earlier works, but it is still heavy as a bus full of elephants, and still high-quality Heavy Metal.”
Danish Death Metal powerhouse Baest return to the UK later this year as part of their Colossal European Headline Tour 2026.
Released in August 2025, Colossal saw Naest return with a
Event Details
Danish Death Metal powerhouse Baest return to the UK later this year as part of their Colossal European Headline Tour 2026.
Released in August 2025, Colossal saw Naest return with a sound that is surprisingly different. “With repeated plays, this album has grown on me hugely,” MetalTalk’s Paul Hutchings wrote in his album review. “It is definitely lighter than earlier works, but it is still heavy as a bus full of elephants, and still high-quality Heavy Metal.”
Danish Death Metal powerhouse Baest return to the UK later this year as part of their Colossal European Headline Tour 2026.
Released in August 2025, Colossal saw Naest return with a
Event Details
Danish Death Metal powerhouse Baest return to the UK later this year as part of their Colossal European Headline Tour 2026.
Released in August 2025, Colossal saw Naest return with a sound that is surprisingly different. “With repeated plays, this album has grown on me hugely,” MetalTalk’s Paul Hutchings wrote in his album review. “It is definitely lighter than earlier works, but it is still heavy as a bus full of elephants, and still high-quality Heavy Metal.”
Danish Death Metal powerhouse Baest return to the UK later this year as part of their Colossal European Headline Tour 2026.
Released in August 2025, Colossal saw Naest return with a
Event Details
Danish Death Metal powerhouse Baest return to the UK later this year as part of their Colossal European Headline Tour 2026.
Released in August 2025, Colossal saw Naest return with a sound that is surprisingly different. “With repeated plays, this album has grown on me hugely,” MetalTalk’s Paul Hutchings wrote in his album review. “It is definitely lighter than earlier works, but it is still heavy as a bus full of elephants, and still high-quality Heavy Metal.”
Danish Death Metal powerhouse Baest return to the UK later this year as part of their Colossal European Headline Tour 2026.
Released in August 2025, Colossal saw Naest return with a
Event Details
Danish Death Metal powerhouse Baest return to the UK later this year as part of their Colossal European Headline Tour 2026.
Released in August 2025, Colossal saw Naest return with a sound that is surprisingly different. “With repeated plays, this album has grown on me hugely,” MetalTalk’s Paul Hutchings wrote in his album review. “It is definitely lighter than earlier works, but it is still heavy as a bus full of elephants, and still high-quality Heavy Metal.”
Danish Death Metal powerhouse Baest return to the UK later this year as part of their Colossal European Headline Tour 2026.
Released in August 2025, Colossal saw Naest return with a
Event Details
Danish Death Metal powerhouse Baest return to the UK later this year as part of their Colossal European Headline Tour 2026.
Released in August 2025, Colossal saw Naest return with a sound that is surprisingly different. “With repeated plays, this album has grown on me hugely,” MetalTalk’s Paul Hutchings wrote in his album review. “It is definitely lighter than earlier works, but it is still heavy as a bus full of elephants, and still high-quality Heavy Metal.”
Danish Death Metal powerhouse Baest return to the UK later this year as part of their Colossal European Headline Tour 2026.
Released in August 2025, Colossal saw Naest return with a
Event Details
Danish Death Metal powerhouse Baest return to the UK later this year as part of their Colossal European Headline Tour 2026.
Released in August 2025, Colossal saw Naest return with a sound that is surprisingly different. “With repeated plays, this album has grown on me hugely,” MetalTalk’s Paul Hutchings wrote in his album review. “It is definitely lighter than earlier works, but it is still heavy as a bus full of elephants, and still high-quality Heavy Metal.”
Danish Death Metal powerhouse Baest return to the UK later this year as part of their Colossal European Headline Tour 2026.
Released in August 2025, Colossal saw Naest return with a
Event Details
Danish Death Metal powerhouse Baest return to the UK later this year as part of their Colossal European Headline Tour 2026.
Released in August 2025, Colossal saw Naest return with a sound that is surprisingly different. “With repeated plays, this album has grown on me hugely,” MetalTalk’s Paul Hutchings wrote in his album review. “It is definitely lighter than earlier works, but it is still heavy as a bus full of elephants, and still high-quality Heavy Metal.”
When death metal was in it’s infancy there was a particularly fertile scene in New York City with bands such as Suffocation, Incantation and Immolation producing what would become genre classic albums and forging long careers destroying stages around the world.
37 years later and Immolation is still an absolute steamroller of a band, flattening everything in their path with ugly, ferocious death that pummels and punishes, occasionally giving you a moment of atmosphere, using orchestral moments or slow burns, to clear your head before the death machine fires up again.
Descent is their 12th studio album and it’s wrapped up in all the dogma the gnostic teachings that the material world is actually hell and only with learning divine knowledge will humans be able to break free of it. So it has a sense of hopelessness about it that is easily captured by the crushing death charge of Immolation.
They’re a band who have always moved in more cinematic/philosophical realms than their contemporaries, a testament to their stoic resiliance, they’ve never split, never aimed at the mainstream, never really had too many members change (a few drummers).
Mostly it’s been Robert Vigna (lead guitar) and Ross Dolan (bass/vocals), driving Immolation forward with drummer Steve Shalaty on board since 2003 and guitarist Alex Bouks having been locking down the rhythm for a decade.
The disillusionment of the subject matter is brought through dynamic riffage, constantly switching pace, the melodic strains at the beginning of These Vengeful Winds soon destroyed by technical brutality, as they shift into full bore death on The Ephemeral Curse.
Thankfully as I’ve said they know when to slow down the pace a little drawing from doom on tracks such as Gods Last Breath and the rolling dissonance of Attrition, while the interlude Banished is a proper stop and movement to something else. These all help control the flow of the record, most still heavy and mechanical but it means that it’s not just one blast fest from beginning to end.
Playing with dynamics and taking an intelligent approach to death metal has always been the way Immolation do things. So if you’re new here and you love bands like Gorguts, Ulcerate and even Gojira, they all owe a debt to Immolation. 9/10
Archspire – Too Fast Too Die (Self Released)
There’s a couple of ways you can describe Canadian band Archspire, they have dubbed themselves “the worlds fastest band”, you can call them tech death but I suppose the most accurate would be absolutely f*cking ridiculous.
Their music is inhuman, right at the fringe of what extreme metal can be, virtuosity bleeding through every instrument with the most intense blast you’ll ever hear, guitar solos and melodies that would scare Yngwie Malmsteen, bass playing that would require fingers made of steel and fry screams from Oliver Rae Aleron, that are often totally unclassifiable as sounds that can be made by the human throat.
This is their first album released independently, choosing to take the route of Kickstarter rather than a label due to royalties and cut labels make on bands records. It’s also their debut with Spencer Moore behind the kit after winning a contest to be their drummer, though I’d demand a recount as he’s clearly not a real person but some kind of percussion robot with sticks for hands and a jackhammer for feet.
His drumming is immense even when the riffs do slow into melodic chugs on Carrion Ladder, he’s still going full pelt. However when every member of a band is playing at their highest level you need to be good, Dean Lamb (guitar), Tobi Morelli (guitar) and Jared Smith (bass) all fighting over who gets to play lead, shifting between technical carnage, classical acoustics and piano driven atmospheres.
Archspire are far Too Fast Too Die on album five, it’s D.I.Y tech metal that will cause an aneurysm if you think about the complexity too much, exactly as it should be. 9/10
Dying Realm – Siege The Walls (Dry Cough Record/Cavernous Records)
Siege The Walls is the debut EP from Brummie death crew Dying Realm. Comprise of ex members of Iron Tomb, Bound By Blood and Nerve Agent, it’s a four tracker that’s an ode to the British death metal scene, which was so important to West Midlands back in the early 90’s.
The ghost of Bolt Thrower coming on the mechanical chug of Grave Of Gods, while there’s also inspiration from Carcass, Benediction, placing them firmly in the same group as Celestial Sanctuary and Cryptworm, as a new band playing an old school sound.
Villainous Incantations brings some harsher tones, inviting evil with pummelling blast beats and rapid grooving riffs. While the hardcore/grindcore influence comes with Mace Buried Deep, smashing you in the face with tremolo guitars and a lot of pit inciting.
Siege The Walls has all the UKDM/OSDM best hits across four tracks and as Abundant Mutilation keeps your head banging until it fades out. Dying Realm tell you exactly what they are with their debut EP, not big not clever but damn good death metal. 7/10
Hamarr – Necrotic Rituals (Iron Fortress Records)
It’s called Necrotic Rituals, it’s on Iron Fortress Records, it’s got to be death metal right? Correct young grasshopper, Necrotic Rituals is the debut full length from Indianapolis duo Hamarr and it’s going to be a must listen for those who love the buzzsaw riffs and occult darkness Entombed and Dismember.
This is raw, gnarly, d-beat driven death that has punk and grindcore moments of nastiness strewn through it. Languishing in the mid-pace crush with tracks such as Boneless II, Headstone, Necro and Wither, there’s pinched harmonics, punishing hammer blow grooves and throat shredding shouts as they counteract these grinding marches with blasting on songs such as Mausoleum, Lich and Catacomb.
Chris Issac (vocals/guitar) and Nick Stephens (drums) bring the vulgar death display, as Caleb Lewis manipulates it to sound deafening (and gives it the low end). Joining them for extra clout are Alex Cloutier of Primal Horde and Kurtis Hall of 1 Body 6 Graves, resulting in debut album of HM-2 savagery. 7/10
When death metal was in it’s infancy there was a particularly fertile scene in New York City with bands such as Suffocation, Incantation and Immolation producing what would become genre classic albums and forging long careers destroying stages around the world.
37 years later and Immolation is still an absolute steamroller of a band, flattening everything in their path with ugly, ferocious death that pummels and punishes, occasionally giving you a moment of atmosphere, using orchestral moments or slow burns, to clear your head before the death machine fires up again.
Descent is their 12th studio album and it’s wrapped up in all the dogma the gnostic teachings that the material world is actually hell and only with learning divine knowledge will humans be able to break free of it. So it has a sense of hopelessness about it that is easily captured by the crushing death charge of Immolation.
They’re a band who have always moved in more cinematic/philosophical realms than their contemporaries, a testament to their stoic resiliance, they’ve never split, never aimed at the mainstream, never really had too many members change (a few drummers).
Mostly it’s been Robert Vigna (lead guitar) and Ross Dolan (bass/vocals), driving Immolation forward with drummer Steve Shalaty on board since 2003 and guitarist Alex Bouks having been locking down the rhythm for a decade.
The disillusionment of the subject matter is brought through dynamic riffage, constantly switching pace, the melodic strains at the beginning of These Vengeful Winds soon destroyed by technical brutality, as they shift into full bore death on The Ephemeral Curse.
Thankfully as I’ve said they know when to slow down the pace a little drawing from doom on tracks such as Gods Last Breath and the rolling dissonance of Attrition, while the interlude Banished is a proper stop and movement to something else. These all help control the flow of the record, most still heavy and mechanical but it means that it’s not just one blast fest from beginning to end.
Playing with dynamics and taking an intelligent approach to death metal has always been the way Immolation do things. So if you’re new here and you love bands like Gorguts, Ulcerate and even Gojira, they all owe a debt to Immolation. 9/10
Archspire – Too Fast Too Die (Self Released)
There’s a couple of ways you can describe Canadian band Archspire, they have dubbed themselves “the worlds fastest band”, you can call them tech death but I suppose the most accurate would be absolutely f*cking ridiculous.
Their music is inhuman, right at the fringe of what extreme metal can be, virtuosity bleeding through every instrument with the most intense blast you’ll ever hear, guitar solos and melodies that would scare Yngwie Malmsteen, bass playing that would require fingers made of steel and fry screams from Oliver Rae Aleron, that are often totally unclassifiable as sounds that can be made by the human throat.
This is their first album released independently, choosing to take the route of Kickstarter rather than a label due to royalties and cut labels make on bands records. It’s also their debut with Spencer Moore behind the kit after winning a contest to be their drummer, though I’d demand a recount as he’s clearly not a real person but some kind of percussion robot with sticks for hands and a jackhammer for feet.
His drumming is immense even when the riffs do slow into melodic chugs on Carrion Ladder, he’s still going full pelt. However when every member of a band is playing at their highest level you need to be good, Dean Lamb (guitar), Tobi Morelli (guitar) and Jared Smith (bass) all fighting over who gets to play lead, shifting between technical carnage, classical acoustics and piano driven atmospheres.
Archspire are far Too Fast Too Die on album five, it’s D.I.Y tech metal that will cause an aneurysm if you think about the complexity too much, exactly as it should be. 9/10
Dying Realm – Siege The Walls (Dry Cough Record/Cavernous Records)
Siege The Walls is the debut EP from Brummie death crew Dying Realm. Comprise of ex members of Iron Tomb, Bound By Blood and Nerve Agent, it’s a four tracker that’s an ode to the British death metal scene, which was so important to West Midlands back in the early 90’s.
The ghost of Bolt Thrower coming on the mechanical chug of Grave Of Gods, while there’s also inspiration from Carcass, Benediction, placing them firmly in the same group as Celestial Sanctuary and Cryptworm, as a new band playing an old school sound.
Villainous Incantations brings some harsher tones, inviting evil with pummelling blast beats and rapid grooving riffs. While the hardcore/grindcore influence comes with Mace Buried Deep, smashing you in the face with tremolo guitars and a lot of pit inciting.
Siege The Walls has all the UKDM/OSDM best hits across four tracks and as Abundant Mutilation keeps your head banging until it fades out. Dying Realm tell you exactly what they are with their debut EP, not big not clever but damn good death metal. 7/10
Hamarr – Necrotic Rituals (Iron Fortress Records)
It’s called Necrotic Rituals, it’s on Iron Fortress Records, it’s got to be death metal right? Correct young grasshopper, Necrotic Rituals is the debut full length from Indianapolis duo Hamarr and it’s going to be a must listen for those who love the buzzsaw riffs and occult darkness Entombed and Dismember.
This is raw, gnarly, d-beat driven death that has punk and grindcore moments of nastiness strewn through it. Languishing in the mid-pace crush with tracks such as Boneless II, Headstone, Necro and Wither, there’s pinched harmonics, punishing hammer blow grooves and throat shredding shouts as they counteract these grinding marches with blasting on songs such as Mausoleum, Lich and Catacomb.
Chris Issac (vocals/guitar) and Nick Stephens (drums) bring the vulgar death display, as Caleb Lewis manipulates it to sound deafening (and gives it the low end). Joining them for extra clout are Alex Cloutier of Primal Horde and Kurtis Hall of 1 Body 6 Graves, resulting in debut album of HM-2 savagery. 7/10
Two Finnish old school death metal bands, Galvanizer and Maformed, will be teaming up next month for ‘Europe Shrouded In Chaos Tour’. The 18-date long trek begins in Tallinn, Estonia on May 9th. Read more…
