Reviewed: September 2021 Released: 2021 Xtreem Music Rating: 4/5 Reviewer: Demitri Levantis Death metal, the world’s most extreme genre; Sweden, the home of some of the biggest and best death metal bands in the world; put those two things together and what do you have? The new album by Kalmar-based…
Swedish death metal
Ablaze My Sorrow – Among Ashes and Monoliths
Reviewed: February 2021 Released: 2021, Black Lion Records Rating: 4/5 Reviewer: Rossy Maguire After four years of incubation, Ablaze My Sorrow announces their triumphant return with a new album. The fifth full length, entitled Among Ashes and Monoliths, introduce new vocalist Jonas Udd, whose aggressive rasp fits the passionate band…
Necrophobic – Dawn of the Damned
Reviewed: November 2020 Released: 2020, Century Media Records Rating: 3.5/5 Reviewer: Demitri Levantis Swedish death metal veterans Necrophobic have returned with their ninth studio album: Dawn of the Damned, a title I would find quite fitting given how the world has received a lot of damnation this year by a pandemic…
Spiritual Holocaust – Echoes of the Apocalypse
Reviewed: [November 2020] Released [2020 More Hate Productions] Rating [3.5/5] Reviewer: Peter Atkinson They may hail from Finland, but Spiritual Holocaust certainly have an ear for old school Swedish death metal. The band’s second album is awash in the classic buzz-sawing, HM2 pedal-powered riffs and d-beat battery championed by Grave,…
Demonical – World Domination
Reviewed: [October 2020] Released [2020 Agonia Records] Rating [4.5/5] Reviewer: Peter Atkinson While there have been some big changes in the Demonical camp since 2018’s Chaos Manifesto, the Swedish death metal brigade sound as surly and brutal as ever with their sixth offering. World Domination kinda puts it right out…
Wombbath – Choirs Of The Fallen
April 2020 March 6th, 2020 / Soulseller Records Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Reviewer: John Haseltine Wombbath has been belting out relentless death metal for what seems like decades now. Well, they did initially band together in 1990. That is what we can call phase one as the band was only…
Deranged – Deeds of Ruthless Violence
Deranged – Deeds of Ruthless Violence Reviewed: April 2020 Released: 2020, Agonia Records Rating: 4/5 Reviewer: Aaron Yurkiewicz Sometimes you turn on a record and it just grabs you by the guts from the first note. And then sometimes that record proceeds to disembowel you with its bare hands and…
One Hour Hell – Voidwalker
Reviewed: January 2020 Released: September 2019, Vicisolum Records Rating: 3.5/5 Reviewer: Johnny Wolf Swedish death metal is infamous with its high standards, setting the bar high for relatively newer Swedish death metal bands to establish presence in the midst of big names like Entombed and others. One Hour Hell is…
Entombed A.D. + Aborted + Baest @ The Dome, London
Entombed A.D. + Aborted + Baest @The Dome 18th October Review by Ambra Chilenwa
Entombed A.D. – Bowels Of Earth
September 2019 Released: August 30th, 2019 / Century Media Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Reviewer: John Haseltine Formed by former Entombed members LG Petrov (vocals), Victor Brandt (bass), Nico Elgstrand (guitar) and Olle Dahlstedt (drums), this marauding band of death metal warriors have steadily established their own identity over the…
The Crown – Cobra Speed Venom
Reviewed: June, 2018 Released: 2018, Metal Blade Records Rating: 4.0/5 Review by: Pete Mutant The Crown are back with their tenth album under this moniker in Cobra Speed Venom, probably one of the worst names for an album I have heard -near ‘Deathrace King’ levels, but let not this name…
Gravestone – Sickening
Reviewed: February 2018 Released: 2018, Raw Skull Recordz Rating: 4/5 Reviewer: Peter Atkinson Just what we need, another Swe-death band, right? But there’s a wiliness and hint of cheek about Växjö-based Gravestone that sets them apart from numerous others of their ilk and makes their debut full-length an engaging, even…
ENTOMBED A.D. Interview with L.G. Petrov
Entombed A.D. Interiew with L.G. Petrov Conducted January, 2015 Interview by Jarod Lawley Before the release of the Swedish death metallers’ 2nd album, Dead Dawn, on February 26th, we spoke to Entombed A.D.’s much loved vocalist L.G. Petrov about what to listen out for on the new record, touring with…
Jonas Torndal from Grave
Jonas Torndal from Grave Here is an interview with the guitar player and original member Jonas Torndal from the Swedish legendary death metal band Grave. Grave was one of the bands who formed the legendary Swedish death metal scene back in the beginning of the 90?s. Grave recently released their…