Album Reviews

Italy’s prime technical death metal outfit Hideous Divinity returns with a new album titled “Unextinct” out via Century Media Records on March 22nd, 2024. The endeavor sees the Italian stalwarts harnessing their destructive arsenal to astonishing levels of technicality, the band’s lineup consists of Enrico Schettino (guitars), Enrico Di Lorenzo (vocals), Stefano Franceschini (bass), and a new drummer Davide Itri offer a bombastic bluster.
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The second album “Maze Envy” from California-based black/death metal act Civerous sees the return of the band after three years of break. As a result of hard work, the quintet set a new path for themselves in the underground scene, while the album throbs with evil blackness spewing forth a wholesomeness of decay. The band's approach hasn’t changed from the early demos “Raw Demo I”, and “Demo MMXIX”. The new outcome offers five songs plus two instrumental intermezzos that tremble a convulsing sound of blackened death metal.
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Darkestrah is a pagan black metal outfit whose members originate from Kyrgyzstan and Iran now based in Germany; the band was established in 1999 and remained hidden in the underground scene for decades. Darkestrah released six studio albums, but what started as a black metal band has evolved into a high-quality standard that adheres to the second wave of black metal. Their lyrics span a wide range of topics about shamanism, paganism, and Turkish history with folk elements embedded into their structured sound. The seventh album “Nomad” is due on March 29th, 2024, and will be released through Osmose Productions.
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DragonForce released their new album on March 15, 2024. From what I've heard already, it's fast and has some game elements in it. Let's check it out!
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The bludgeoning art of Knoxville Tennessee-based death metal act Brodequin has easily distinguished itself among the many brutal acts in the genre. Whether you’re a fan of early Suffocation, Deeds of Flesh, Disgorge, or Defeated Sanity, this form of approach is described as classic and legit it mostly shows how Brodequin has established its sound and become a staple for the modern brutal death metal. The fourth album “Harbinger of Woe” released since March 22nd via Season of Mist presents almost every facet of the 90s era.
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Amaranthe has released their sixth studio album on February 23, 2024. We already got 5 singles before the release date that gave us an idea of what this album would bring. Lets check those and the rest of the album out!
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Stockholm’s black/death metal outfit Necrophobic is in pursuit of its classic identity in the band’s newest album “In Twilight Grey” out via Century Media on March 15th, 2024. The overall direction of these Swedes is immediately apparent from the raw, frosty sound of Necrophobic’s 1997 sophomore “Darkside”. “On Twilight Grey” has a cold and dark epic quality, the twin guitars will leave you awe-struck with the ravenous tremolo-picked riffs that make this album sound evil.
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International blackened death metal five-piece Vltimas takes a giant leap with their sophomore “Epic” set for a release date on March 15th via Season of Mist. Fronted by bassist/vocalist David Vincent (ex-Morbid Angel), guitarist Rune "Blasphemer" Eriksen (ex-Mayhem, Aura Noir) and drummer Flo Mounier (Cryptopsy), bassist Ype Terwisscha van Scheltinga (ex-Dodecahedron) and guitarist João Duarte (Corpus Christii), embrace their collective talents to offer a defining moment in the band’s career. Vltimas proved in its 2019 debut “Something Wicked Marches In” that they are a force to be reckoned with, and the follow-up album is another step forward in the right direction.
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Defending the throne of heavy metal since the dawn of 1970, British juggernaut Judas Priest returns with a formidable record, “Invincible Shield”. Hitting in all directions with a massive iron ball, the consistent lineup consists of Rob Halford (vocals), Glenn Tipton (guitars), Richie Faulkner (guitars), Ian Hill (bass), and Scott Travis (drums), offering fans of heavy metal what they have been eagerly waiting for. The 19th studio album is a thunderously powerful record. Certainly, it alleviates these Brits to the hall of fame with eleven new songs bashing you with gritty metal songs rocking you to the core with twin guitars and showcasing the integrity of the band’s performance.
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Slimelord is a newly established death/doom band formed by members of Cryptic Shift, ex-Obliterator, ex-Horrified, and Abominable Filth. Following the strong EP releases “The Delta Death Sirens”, “Moss Contamination” and, “Insurmountable Peril”, the West Yorkshire quintet was signed by 20 Buck Spin and present their first full-length album “Chytridiomycosis Relinquished”. There is no debate regarding the monstrous sound of the latest material for Slimelord delivers a soundtrack of dread and a sound steeped in innovative death metal.
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