Baest – Justitia
Reviewed: [June 2022] Released [2022 Century Media Records] Rating [3.5/5] Reviewer: Peter Atkinson Danish brutes Baest delivered a fittingly monstrous third album with Necro Sapiens […]
Articles by Peter Atkinson
Decapitated – Cancer Culture
Reviewed: [June 2022] Released [2022 Nuclear Blast Records] Rating [3.5/5] Reviewer: Peter Atkinson Since reforming two years after the 2007 tour bus crash that killed […]
Sijjeel – Salvation Within Insanity
Reviewed: [May 2022] Released [2022 Comatose Music] Rating [3.5/5] Reviewer: Peter Atkinson Trying to make a go at is as a brutal death metal band […]
BLOODRED – Ad Astra
Reviewed: [May 2022] Released [2022 Massacre Records] Rating [3.5/5] Reviewer: Peter Atkinson Ad Astra is the third full-length from German one-manish band Bloodred, led by […]
The Spirit – Of Clarity And Galactic Structures
Reviewed: [April 2022] Released [2022 AOP Records] Rating [3/5] Reviewer: Peter Atkinson German duo The Spirit are back with a third batch of their so-called […]
Suppression – The Sorrow of Soul Through Flesh
Reviewed: [April 2022] Released [2022 Unspeakable Axe Records] Rating [3.5/5] Reviewer: Peter Atkinson After issuing an EP and two demos over their first decade, Chilean […]
Bastard – Rotten Blood
Reviewed: [March 2022] Released [2022 Distortion Music Group] Rating [3.5/5] Reviewer: Peter Atkinson The St. Louis quartet Bastard certainly doesn’t sound very, well, “St. Louis,” […]
Embryonic Autopsy – Prophecies Of The Conjoined
Reviewed: [March 2022] Released [2022 Massacre Records] Rating [3.5/5] Reviewer: Peter Atkinson Old school death metal meets high-minded sci-fi conceptualizing on this curious debut album […]
Wilderun – Epigone
Reviewed: [February 2022] Released [2022 Century Media Records] Rating [4.5/5] Reviewer: Peter Atkinson After getting their start playing a sort of New England-ized variation of […]
Fit For an Autopsy – Oh What The Future Holds
Reviewed: [February 2022] Released [2022 Nuclear Blast Records] Rating [3.5/5] Reviewer: Peter Atkinson Promo materials describe Fit For An Autopsy’s (FFAA’s) sound as “post-deathcore.” And […]
Blastanus – Beyond
Reviewed: [February 2022] Released [2022 Self-Released] Rating [3.5/5] Reviewer: Peter Atkinson You might think that before emerging from a 10-year hiatus, at least as far […]
Once Human – Scar Weaver
Reviewed: [February 2022] Released [2022 earMUSIC] Rating [4/5] Reviewer: Peter Atkinson Looks like the third time may indeed be the charm for L.A. quintet Once […]
Demonicera – Blasphemous Thoughts
Reviewed: [January 2022] Released [2021 Self-Released] Rating [4/5] Reviewer: Peter Atkinson Kinda lost this one in the shuffle of late summer stuff, but glad I […]
Mental Devastation – The Delusional Mystery of the Self (Part I)
Reviewed: [January 2022] Released [2021 Blood Harvest Records] Rating [4/5] Reviewer: Peter Atkinson Chile’s Mental Devastation do a stellar job of mashing up the unbridled […]
Lock Up – The Dregs of Hades
Reviewed: [December 2021] Released [2021 Listenable Records] Rating [4/5] Reviewer: Peter Atkinson Despite losing all-star drummer Nicholas Barker after re-emerging in 2017 with Demonization, on-again, […]
