Reviewed: August 2020 Released: 2020, High Roller Records Rating: 3/5 Reviewer: Jack Merry 26 years after their last studio album, extreme metallers Messiah are about to unleash the successor to their “Underground” record from 1994, entitled “Fracmont” on High Roller Records later this year. For now, however, the band are sweetening…
Kryptamok – Verisaarna
Reviewed: August 2020 Released: 2020, Purity Through Fire Rating: 4.5/5 Reviewer: Demitri Levantis It would be quite a cliché to say a veteran of a certain scene will produce some of the best new music, but the reason that’s a cliché is that it normally turns out to be true.…
Temple Nightside – Pillars Of Damnation
Reviewed: August 2020 Released: 2020, Iron Bonehead Productions Rating: 4/5 Reviewer: Kira Levine Haling from Australia and founded just a decade ago, Temple Nightside will be releasing their fourth full-length Pillars Of Damnation on August 7th, via Iron Bonehead Productions. Their label states: “By now, Temple Nightside require little to…
Entartung – Maleficae Artes
Reviewed: August 2020 Released: August 7th 2020, Dunkelheit Produktionen Rating: 4/5 Reviewer: Annalisa Orlando This German black metal trio deliver a classic record. The combination of high-pitched vocals and extraordinarily long tracks all hark back to the 90’s heyday of black metal. Having said that, the clean and tidy production…
Jesus Wept – Apartheid Redux
Reviewed: August 2020 Released: 2020, Redefining Darkness Records Rating: 4/5 Reviewer: Andrew Shirley Detroit’s Jesus Wept come storming through with their new release “Apartheid Redux”, a re-recording of their debut digital-only EP “Crushing Apartheid” released in 2017, along with two new tracks previously unreleased. It’s made very clear from the…
Elmsfire – Wings of Reckoning
Reviewed: August, 2020 Released: 2020, Recordjet Rating: 2.5/5 Reviewer: Pete Mutant Elmsfire have been about since 1999 and have had two full lengths and a few demos up until this point. The band from Düsseldorf have been in a bit of a transition again as they shake up the lineup…
Cardiac Arrest – The Day That Death Prevailed
Reviewed: August 2020 Released: 27 July 2020, Boris Records/ Memento Mori Rating: 4/5 Reviewer: Annalisa Orlando Staunch and pleasantly straightforward death metal from Chicago veterans. The record kicks off with “Thrive On Fear” with a howling siren. It’s a real headbanger, the best of roaring, aggressive death metal, with screeching…
Sanity Control – War on Life
Reviewed: August 2020 Released: 2020, Selfmadegod Records Rating: 4/5 Reviewer: Jack Merry Sanity Control is a crossover thrash metal band hailing from Warsaw, Poland who pay homage to the classic metal sounds while combining it with a distorted hardcore punk assault and shoving the whole thing through a blender repeatedly. I…
Sepulchral Curse – Only Ashes Remain
Reviewed: August 2020 Released: 2020, Transcending Obscurity Rating: 4/5 Reviewer: Demitri Levantis Bands who fuse black and death metal are among this critic’s favourite genres. Blackened death metal is all well and good but it is nice to come across a band with a very catchy death metal sound but…
From The Depth – Moments
Reviewed: August, 2020 Released: 2020, Rockshot Records Rating: 3.5/5 Reviewer: Pete Mutant Italian power metallers From The Depth have brought the band back after a bit of a gap since their last recorded effort, 2014’s EP ‘Perserverance’. There’s a few new faces to the lineup which now is purported to…
Bull Elephant – Created From Death
Reviewed: August 2020 Released: 2020, Eat Lead and Die Music Rating: 4/5 Reviewer: Rossy Maguire UK anonymous collective BULL ELEPHANT will release its second album, Created From Death, in August on Eat Lead and Die Music. The album, part two in the BULL ELEPHANT trilogy mythos, picks up where the debut ended. The eponymous creature,…
Jupiterian – Protosapien
Reviewed: August 2020 Released: 2020, Transcending Obscurity Records Rating: 4/5 Reviewer: Kieron Hayes Sometimes you really need to be in the right mood for certain music. Jupiterian’s Protosapien is one such example, and the mood it wants you to be in, the atmosphere it revels in and drips with, is…
Bear Mace – Charred Field Of Slaughter
Reviewed: August 2020 Released: 2020 – Self released Rating: 4/5 Reviewer: Beandog Since forming in 2012, Chicago death metal quintet Bear Mace have, by their own account, mostly operated in the shadows. Influenced by classic bands such as Death, Bolt Thrower and Massacre, the band initially made their presence known…
Avatar – Hunter Gatherer
Reviewed: August 2020 Released: August 7th 2020, Century Media Rating: 4/5 Reviewer: Rebecca Bush Bringing us their eagerly anticipated eighth studio album are Swedish metal dandies, Avatar! ‘Hunter Gatherer’ takes us into new depths for easily the darkest, most malevolent offering yet from the band. Taking no prisoners from the…
PERSEKUTOR Interview
Interview with PERSEKUTOR – Vlad the Inhaler (vocals) Interview by Jack Merry totalpersekution.bandcamp.com/ www.facebook.com/persekutor/ svartrecords.com/product/persekutor-permanent-winter/ We sat down with Ice Metal band PERSEKUTOR to discuss the upcoming debut album and more! Please follow and like us: