Interview with DJ Temple (guitarist) of WITHOUT MERCY Interview by Kat Knite Official Website – Bandcamp – Facebook – Twitter – Instagram – Spotify Listen to Seismic here: Bandcamp – Spotify – Youtube Music – Deezer Vancouver based death-metal act Without Mercy had been hard at work for the last few years working on fresh material, making sure…
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My Dying Bride – Macabre Cabaret
Reviewed: December, 2020 Released: November, 2020 Nuclear Blast Rating: 4/5 Reviewer: Theron Moore Eight months after dropping the epic and lumbering, “The Ghost of Orion,” UK doom and gloomers My Dying Bride have returned with new music, a four track EP “Macabre Cabaret.” The title track, also the first tune…
Carcass-Despicable
Reviewed: November, 2020 Released: October, 2020 Nuclear Blast Rating: 4/5 Reviewer: Theron Moore Am I the only one that finds irony in the fact that UK gore hounds, Carcass, dropped new music in the midst of the modern-day black plague in October of this year? That’s right, the lads are…
DeathOrchestra – Symphony of Death
DeathOrchestra – Symphony of Death Reviewed: December 2020 Released: 2020, Bandcamp Rating: 4/5 Reviewer: Aaron Yurkiewicz Metal bands partnering with symphonic orchestras isn’t a new phenomenon. Metallica made it socially acceptable ages ago, and everyone from Accept to Dimmu Borgir to Paradise Lost has done the same in recent years.…
Act of Creation – The Uncertain Light
Reviewed: November 2020 Released: 2020, Black Sunset Rating: 3.5/5 Reviewer: Jack Merry The Uncertain Light is the brand new fourth studio album from the German death metal heavyweights Act of Creation. Born from the ashes of the nineties German band E605, guitarist Carsten Schluch didn’t hesitate to form a new outfit with…
Slit Your Gods – Dogmatic Convictions Of Human Decrepitude
Reviewed: November 2020 Released: 2020, Comatose Music Rating: 4.5/5 Reviewer: Lana Likhacheva With their debut EP, ‘Dogmatic Convictions of Human Decrepitude’, Slit Your Gods are here to take the listener beyond the deceptive veil of cults and religions to the horrifying things a human being can cause to each other,…
Supergroup ACT OF DENIAL Finish Recording New Album ‘Negative’, New Single ‘Down That Line’ Coming October 25th!
New All-Stars melodic death metal band/project ACT OF DENIAL – feat. by lead guitarist and songwriter Voi Cox (Koziak, Victim), guitarist and lyricist Luger (Benighted, Koziak), vocalist Bjorn Speed Strid (Soilwork), bassist Steve Di Giorgio (Death, Testament), drummer Krimh (Septicflesh) and keyboardist John Lönnmyr (The Night Flight Orchestra) – have…
Supergroup ACT OF DENIAL Issue Second Studio Update!
New All-Stars melodic death metal band/project ACT OF DENIAL – feat. by lead guitarist and songwriter Voi Cox (Koziak, Victim), guitarist and lyricist Luger (Benighted, Koziak), vocalist Bjorn Speed Strid (Soilwork), bassist Steve Di Giorgio (Death, Testament), drummer Krimh (Septicflesh) and keyboardist John Lönnmyr (The Night Flight Orchestra) – have…
STEVE DI GIORGIO’s “Overactive Imagination” DEATH Playthrough Posted Online!
Darkglass Electronics have posted online TESTAMENT Bassist Steve Di Giorgio’s powerful playthrough for “Overactive Imagination” from DEATH’s classic album “Individual Thought Patterns”. In the video, Steve is using the Microtubes B7K V2. Watch the video here: Steve commented: “Thanks Darkglass Electronics! I went down to Haywerid CA to do a…
Convocation – Ashes Coalesce
Reviewed: July 2020 Released: 2020, Everlasting Spew Records Rating: 4.5/5 Reviewer: Kira Levine Seasoned musicians Lauri Laaksonen and Marko Neuman joined forces to create death/doom outfit Convocation. They are set to release their sophomore record Ashes Coalesce on July 3rd, following up 2018’s Scars Across. The band states: “The second…
SUMMON-Fallen-The Covideo Chronicles-Day 26 (April 26th, 2020)
Reviewed: June, 2020 Released: 2005, Moribund Cult Rating: 2/5 (Just the DVD) Reviewer: JP Over the years I’ve done a number of more ambitious series of reviews instead of simple stand-alone reviews. This is perhaps my most ambitious project yet. This series of reviews was born out of three seemingly…
Kilter – Axiom
Reviewed: February 2020 Released: 2020, Alter-Nativ Rating: 2/5 Reviewer: Demitri Levantis When you keep asking yourself ‘Why am I reviewing this for a metal website?’ while listening to an album, you know this isn’t going to bode well, and I am afraid that is the case for the confusing mashup…
Frantic Amber – Bellatrix
Frantic Amber – Bellatrix Reviewed: October 2019 Released: August 23rd, 2019 / GMR Music Group Rating: 4.5 / 5 Reviewer: John Haseltine FRANTIC AMBER started in 2008 as a project in Stockholm by founding guitarist Mary Siebecke, with the intention to play metal with women. At first, it was an…
Lik – Mass Funeral Evocation
Reviewed: May, 2019 Released: 2019, Metal Blade Rating: 3.5/5 Reviewer: Courtney Solloway This album is heavy. Seriously heavy. However, this kind of lets it down in ways I don’t see very often. Now, if you know me and what I’ve reviewed in the past, you’ll know that I absolutely love…
West Of Hell – Blood of the Infidel
Reviewed: May, 2019 Released: 2019, self-released Rating: 4.5/5 Reviewer: Courtney Solloway This album is different and beautiful in oh-so-many ways. Firstly there is the combination of death metal, power metal and thrash metal, all in their traditional senses but with a new twist. Then there are songs like Dying Tomorrow…