Reviewed: October 2021 Released: 2017, Willowtip Records Rating: 4/5 Reviewer: Kat Knite American death-metal band Sunless have made significant impact in recent years with their unique and outside-the-box take on the genre, melting groove and chaos together in their bottomless cauldron of creation. Honouring legendary bands like Gorguts and Gojira, they write music…
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Sunless – Ylem
Reviewed: October 2021 Released: 2021, Willowtip Records Rating: 4/5 Reviewer: Kat Knite Back and even bigger than before, Sunless are breaking soundwaves again with the much awaited release of Ylem, part 2 of a dissonant and terrifying experimental death-metal trilogy. On October 29th, we’ll be lucky to witness the evolution of…
Unmerciful – Wrath Encompassed
Reviewed: [April 2020] Released [2020 Willowtip Records] Rating [3.5/5] Reviewer: Peter Atkinson Sometimes you can judge a book, or in this case an album, by its cover. Wrath Encompassed, the third full-length from Topeka, Kansas-based brutes Unmerciful delivers everything its name, title and the demonic presence on its ominous cover…
Contrarian – Their Worm Never Dies
Reviewed: July 2019 Released: March 15th, 2019, Willowtip Records Rating: 3.5/5 Reviewer: James Swandale Rochester progressive death metallers Contrarian return with their third outing, a concept album about a cursed man and a legendary dragon who could prove to be his saviour or tormentor. Fronted by guitarist Jim Tasikas and…
Vale Of Pnath – Accursed
Reviewed: May 2019 Released: 2019, Willowtip Records Rating: 4.5/5 Reviewer: Peter Atkinson Colorado’s Vale Of Pnath are the very anti-thesis of the low-fi “true/necro” black metal philosophy some still hold so dear. Instead, theirs is unabashedly modern and sleek, weaving symphonic black metal with uber-technical death metal into a complex…
Hath – Of Rot And Ruin
Reviewed: [April 2019] Released [2019 Willowtip Records] Rating [4/5] Reviewer: Peter Atkinson After issuing their debut EP Hive in 2015, New Jersey devils Hath spent the next four years honing their craft and beefing up their lineup and sound, with second guitarist Peter Brown coming onboard last year as the…
UNMERCIFUL signs with Willowtip Records
Willowtip Records proudly signs brutal death metal kings Unmerciful! Unmerciful, coming from Kansas/USA, marked their path with the amazing debut “Unmercifully Beaten” followed up by an intensive tour runs from 2006 through 2009 with bands like Cannibal Corpse, Necrophagist, Dying Fetus, Cryptopsy. After a long break they returned with the devastating,…