Reviewed: [July 2020] Released [2020 Relapse Records] Rating [4/5] Reviewer: Peter Atkinson As they wait like everyone else to see what the future might bring, Virginia’s Inter Arma offer a look to their past with an intriguing, and wide ranging, cover song collection that is named after their practice space…
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Coffins – Beyond the Circular Demise
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Devourment – Obscene Majesty
Devourment – Obscene Majesty Reviewed: August, 2019 Released: 2019, Relapse Records Rating: 3/5 Reviewer: Aaron Yurkiewicz OBSCENE MAJESTY is one sick, nasty mess of an album. But then again, Devourment has always been one sick, nasty mess of a band. With a history of classic jams like “Molesting the Decapitated”,…
Torche – Admission
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Full Of Hell – Weeping Choir
Reviewed: [June 2019] Released [2019 Relapse Records] Rating [4/5] Reviewer: Peter Atkinson One of my all-time favorite albums is Brutal Truth’s 1994 outing Need To Control. The combination of spasmodic grind, caterwauling vocals, industrial clamor, electronic fits and utterly crushing heaviness on the band’s second full-length was nothing short of…
Inter Arma – Sulphur English
Reviewed: May 2019 Released: 2019, Relapse Records Rating: 4.5/5 Reviewer: Peter Atkinson Richmond, Va.-based Inter Arma have carved out a nice little corner for themselves in the underground for their potent stew of death/black metal ferocity, imposing doom/sludge heft and desolate dynamics. There are few bands that work these extremes…
Misery Index – Jason Netherton (Interview Pt. I)
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Windhand – Eternal Return
Windhand – Eternal Return Reviewed: January, 2019 Released: 2018, Relapse Records Rating: 4.5/5 Reviewer: Aaron Yurkiewicz ETERNAL RETURN finds Virginia-based doom metallers Windhand awakening from the cocoon of past releases and emerging with a more dynamic and ambitious sense of self. Like the hazy echoes of an Ambien induced slumber,…
Pig Destroyer – Head Cage
Pig Destroyer – Head Cage Reviewed: January, 2019 Released: 2018, Relapse Records Rating: 3/5 Reviewer: Aaron Yurkiewicz I like this album, but I don’t love it. And that kinda sucks. Pig Destroyer are inarguably one of the biggest grindcore bands on the planet right now, and their music is already…
Obscura – Diluvium
Reviewed: August, 2018 Released: 2018, Relapse Records Rating: 4.5 of 5 Reviewer: Peter Atkinson German tech-deathsters Obscura freaked out more than a few people last fall when they cryptically hinted that “the end is near” on their Facebook page. Turns out “the end” merely meant the completion of the final…
Gruesome – Twisted Prayers
Reviewed: July, 2018 Released: 2018, Relapse Records Rating: 2.5 / 5 Reviewer: Peter Atkinson It would seem that the super sideband Gruesome – which features Exhumed frontman/guitarist Matt Harvey, ex-Malevolent Creation drummer Gus Rios and ex-Possessed guitarist Daniel Gonzalez – are in this Death-worship thing for the long haul, for…
Obituary + Exmortus + Ingested @ ULU Live, London
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Primitive Man @ The Unicorn, London
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