Album Reviews

It’s been three years since the Finnish death metal act released their last outing, returning now with their 4th album “Succumb To Rot” on April 22nd, 2022 via Dark Descent Records. For fifteen years Corpsessed has stood firm and evolved with every studio album which earned the band a good reputation among the underground acts in Europe. The present lineup includes Jussi-Pekka Manner (drums), Jyri Lustig (guitars), Matti Mäkelä (backing vocals, guitars), Nikko Matilainen (vocals) and Tuomas Kulmala (bass guitar). Before getting into the contents of the music I must say that this is so far the best sounding album after 'Beyond Abysmal Thresholds' from 2019. Production-wise 'Succumb To Rot' is equally brutal, and powerful.
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Swedish prolific musician Swartadapuz (guitars, bass, and vocals) never ceases to amaze the fans with his most original and outstanding musical works. Since the project Greve released its first full-length album 'Nordarikets strid' in 2019 in which mastermind Swartadapuz quested for an epic symphonic flair. Within the three years, his creative songwriting mind churned out several releases for his other side projects such as Bekëth Nexëhmü, Ars Hmu, Digerdöden, Muvitium and plenty more. The sophomore release 'Föllo af Svavel, Lifvets Dimridå' continues to follow its roots in such an imaginative way. Although this time the central focus is laid upon the melodies, resulting in a grander and sorrowful complexion.
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From all the past demos and the studio albums of Bekëth Nexëhmü, Swartadapuz (all instruments and vocals) offers a different framework on the fourth full-length album 'De Dunklas Gravrit' where the songs take a grim and sorrowful approach. Nevertheless, by evoking the style of early Burzum the composer succeeded in conjuring up a sad and depressive atmosphere. For many years now Bekëth Nexëhmü perfectly fitted within the spectrum of atmospheric black metal, but unlike many of his side project bands, 'De Dunklas Gravrit' has a particular resemblance to Muvitium.
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Fifteen, yes you read that correct, the Canadian flagship of weird music named Voivod delivers with 'Synchro Anarchy' their fifteenth album to the world. Making music from their debut album in 1984 until 2022. How many bands can say that. With a new album we never know on which journey they will take us now.
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Third album “Rites of Gore” from the New Jersey-based death metal act Sentient Horror proves to be finely honed by Matt Moliti (vocals, lead guitars), Jon Lopez (rhythm guitars), Tyler Butkovsky (bass) and Evan Daniele (drums). After releasing the sophomore “Morbid Realms” in 2019, the quartet is back with nine massive tracks. While there is plenty of old-school quality on the band’s third studio album, the Stockholm influences show a continuation of the same sound. Right from the start of the album Sentient Horror unleash its entire force of aggression setting a brute style that would make bands like Entombed and Dismember proud.
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‘Distorted Chants’ is the brainchild of one Pia Isaksen. After being active with the Norwegian stoner doomheads of Superlynx for around a decade already, she has now penned her own solo debut proper under the moniker of Pia Isa.
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German thrash metal veterans DESTRUCTION celebrate their 40th anniversary by setting the world ablaze with a new, hard-hitting grenade in the form of their new album, Diabolical (out April 8, 2022 via Napalm Records). As one of the most legendary German thrash metal bands in existence, DESTRUCTION grace the wall of fame alongside giants like Kreator, Sodom and Tankard and a new album from them is always something to look forward to. So here we are with 'Diabolical', will they have changed things up a bit or simply stuck to their destructive guns?
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Multi-instrumentalist and vocalist V-Khaoz quickly earned his reputation for being one of the most active and creative composers of all time, with more than a dozen bands and side projects coursing his musical domains. His passion for black metal and ambient music made him explore deep sonic emotions and soundscapes via Druadan Forest. Formed back in 1998 with three demos and two albums to its name, this one man project's third full record, 'Portals' offers an awe-inspiring voyage to the dark universe of dungeon synth.
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Ever since discovering Author & Punisher while doing some research on the artists booked for Blowup vol. 4 in Helsinki back in 2018, discovering both his old work and 2018's 'Beastland', I've been a huge fan of what Tristan Shone does with this incredibly intriguing project. If you don't know by now, A&P is the perfect symbiosis of man and machine where Tristan produces inhuman machine-like sounds created through his manipulation of the impressive contraption he built. While many of the industrial music he makes could have been done through pressing some buttons, he opted to put his whole body to work by literally banging out the beats and draw out other weird sounds with the machine components surrounding him. I've been awaiting a new album ever since and now the time is finally here!
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Last time when I reviewed Aeon of Awareness’s first EP, I was sad it was over. Normally I’m not such a death metal fan, but the melodic parts in that EP and the beautiful instruments spoke to me in a way that attracted me to the album. This time the band send me their second EP. The last three songs of the first EP, ‘Dialoge With the Unconscious’, are also the last three songs on ‘Wairua’. Last time, the title of the EP got me onto the philosophic route. Lets see what ‘Wairua' has to say.
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