Church of the Dead – Church of the Dead Reviewed: October 2020 Released: 2020, Stay Heavy Records Rating: 4.5/5 Reviewer: Aaron Yurkiewicz I was a huge fan of Church of the Dead’s collection of EPs from a few years back. Spread across 5 volumes between 2013 and 2015, the Helsinki…
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Cardiac Arrest – The Day That Death Prevailed
Cardiac Arrest – The Day That Death Prevailed Reviewed: August 2020 Released: 2020, Memento Mori Rating: 3.5/5 Reviewer: Aaron Yurkiewicz Chicago’s Cardiac Arrest are like that mosquito from Jurassic Park – stuck in amber, frozen in time while the world evolved around it. And you remember how much crap that…
Fire for Effect – Artillery Unleashed
Fire for Effect – Artillery Unleashed Reviewed: January 2020 Released: 2019, Independent Rating: 4.5/5 Reviewer: Aaron Yurkiewicz Cancer is a Motherf@#ker. Originally conceived as a solo project for former Malevolent Creation guitarist Gio Ceraca, Fire for Effect really started to gain some legs after Brett Malev Hoffman joined the band…
Cianide – Unhumanized
Cianide – Unhumanized Reviewed: January 2020 Released: 2020, Hells Headbangers Rating: 4/5 Reviewer: Aaron Yurkiewicz Sometimes you just need some good ol’ fashioned, knuckle dragging mid-west death metal in your life. Long running Chicago scene vets Cianide are back to fill that void with their first collection of new tunes…
Deiformity – Corpse Stomper
Deiformity – Corpse Stomper Reviewed: January 2019 Released: 2018, Self Released Rating: 3/5 Reviewer: Aaron Yurkiewicz Here’s the thing about new bands playing Old School Death Metal – you’re not expected to break new musical ground, and it doesn’t even have to be played all that well if it’s done…
Pyrexia – Unholy Requiem
Pyrexia – Unholy Requiem Reviewed: November, 2018 Released: 2018, Unique Leader Records Rating: 4/5 Reviewer: Aaron Yurkiewicz The phrase “Return to Form” is one of the most hacky statements you can make when reviewing a record, but then again, I’ve never be mistaken for an English Lit major. But instead…
Internal Bleeding – Corrupting Influence
Internal Bleeding – Corrupting Influence Reviewed: November, 2018 Released: 2018, Unique Leader Records Rating: 4/5 Reviewer: Aaron Yurkiewicz From adversity comes strength. Such a statement has rarely been truer for a band than it has for Internal Bleeding. Rewind to last April – the band had regrouped with a new…
The Grotesquery – The Lupine Anathema
Reviewed: July, 2018 Released: 2018, Xtreem Music Rating: 4.0/5 Reviewer: Aaron Yurkiewicz Rogga Johansson may not be the most innovative guitar player in death metal, but dammit, the dude’s a machine. Considering that in the now almost 7 months of 2018, he’s released new music with Down Among the Dead…
Angerot – The Splendid Iniquity
Reviewed: April, 2018 Released: 2018, Black Market Metal Rating: 4.5/5 Reviewer: Andrew Cook After a lovely little creepy intro section, South Dakota’s Angerot leave you in very little doubt as to their whole purpose on this fine planet, that being the HM-2 soaked worship of old school Swede Death Metal.…