Category: Review

“From the frostbitten concrete of Stockholm emerges Dysthen, a new voice in the void, a raw, shadow-draped vessel channelling the anguished duality of existence”

They say that to assume is to make an ass out of you and me but all is forgiven if you get caught in the trap of thinking that the presence umlaut over the u of Blüdwyrm makes them a German band. In point of fact, having risen from the primordial ooze of Dorset England

Having risen to prominence with their 2022 demo “Through Violence“, Italian Black Metal quartet Kybalion have spent the past three years musing on themes of existentialism and cosmic possession. 2024 saw the arrival of a live in the studio album and an EP in “A Crippled Power” before a split with Ad Unum Omnes last year,

Having been engineered and co-produced by Max Kushner, mixed and co-produced by Cody Stewart (Worm Shepherd, The Dialectic, Impending Doom) with mastering and additional mixing by Christian Donaldson  (Suffocation, Shadow of Intent, Ingested), its fair to say the new EP “Misery” from My Own Will has some serious names attached to it. The record follows 2022

Hailing from Copenhagen Denmark and taking influences from the late 80’s and early 90’s era of Earache Records bands, Meltification are a two piece Death Metal infused Grindcore band quite like no other. Formed by Tue Sprogø (Death Token, Asbest, Deformation), a veteran of the Copenhagen Hardcore scene and former Imperious Mortality drummer Thomas Rindom, between them the

Creating songs which tackle themes including trauma and domestic violence by channelling cult horror and science fiction films, Halloran have been making a name for themselves with intense, introspective and brutally honest material with which they pull no punches. Hailing from Reading in the United Kingdom, the bands reputation is for the kind of incendiary

Citing a wide range of influences from spanning Metalcore, Deathcore, Hardcore, DJent and Mathcore, Tide7 hail from Cork in Ireland and promise an aggressive sound that fuses intense lyrics with chaotic dissonance, groove laden riffs and of course huge breakdowns. The band got together in late 2022 with guitarist Luke Nirever recording and producing their

“This first year of You Exist Because We Allow It has been absolutely nuts! It’s hard to put into words how full on it has been. All we know is that we are so grateful to have done all the things we have already done in such a short period of time. Camp Melting is

A fourth studio album from Norwich Death Doom Metal institution Consecration in a sixteen year career of death, despair, darkness and the occult always seemed to be on the tarot cards after their well received 2022 album “Cinis” even if four years between records feels like an ice age. Recorded and produced Priory Recording Studios by the

Is there a better way to describe Pvrgatorii that f***ing hostile? A Spanish duo who hail from the vibrant city of Barcelona started the project back in 2018 and have consistently defined their sound as “Black Metal ov Death” a violently turbulent fusion of raw Black Metal abrasions, Hardcore Punk urgency and noise-laden Deathgrind hostility.