Category: Review

“A mysterious letter from an impossible source sends a man on a journey through time, facing unimaginable horrors on his quest to usurp the very throne of Death himself.” ~ Whipworm

Eight string Metal merchants Our Last Crusade may have seemed quiet since the release of their well received 2023 album “Death Wins” but it’s the quiet ones, as they say, you have to look out for. Hailing from Calgary Alberta Canada, the band have been cutting their own path through the urban jungle since 2010

Hailing from the axis of Mikkeli–Jyväskylä–Helsinki in the depths of Finland, Deadvoid Inc. are a freshly conceived Melodic Death Metal band who, in their own words, decided to build something new in the midst of everything old. The project started to take shape in 2025 with guitarist Tuomas Torikka (Life Suffers Defeat, ex-Deathropy) and vocalist

“Conceptually, The Gutters explores the idea of the lowest place; emotionally, socially and spiritually. The gutters are where everything drains; the hidden channels where emotions collect out of sight. They represent the overlooked and unpolished; a gateway to the underground and the parts of ourselves people rarely see.” ~ Numbskull Narrative

If you’re looking for a band who will sit around an open fire sharing a bottle of Wild Turkey sharing war stories before throwing their shotgun cartridges into it and running like hell for s***s and giggles, then that band is Wolfbastard. A Manchester based trio who love nothing more than to destroy everything in

Back in 2023 French occult Doom Sludge outfit Azken Auzi rose to prominence with their self titled album, a record which found the trio musing on themes of Apocalypse, War, Religion, Serial killers and Madness over riffs fit for worship. Three years on, following the departure of bassist Laurent Deramchi, who has been replaced in

A debut burnt offering from Chilean Brutal Death Metal trio Sermon To The Lambs is one mixed and mastered by the band’s own Victor Araneda (In Asymmetry, First Degree Murder,  Supreme Banishment) as well as being wrapped in artwork by the infamous Par Olofsson (Winds Of Plague, Unleashed, Thy Art Is Murder). The product of

“The world isn’t any less frustrating or stupid than it was when we made our last recording, so you can assume a higher level or hatred, anger and frustration has been baked right the fuck into these tunes; it’s simple math.”  ~ Cell Press

Overarching themes of political exhaustion, systemic injustice, and the psychological residue of living inside structures that no longer pretend to work is what weaves together the debut record from Knoxville, Tennessee based project What the Fire Left. The work of multi instrumentalist and vocalist Aspen (Laang, Abyssius), rather than slogans or manifestos, the songs focus

While as individuals they remain unidentified, the creators of what they describe as “brutal, angry, fast, dark and evil”  music that are Gravemass are long‑time Vancouver Metal stalwarts with prior convictions in bands such as Zimmers Hole, Punch Drunk, 3 Inches of Blood, Revocation, Savannah, Process, The Golers, Subversion and Just Cause to name but a few. Whether that