Our resident extreme metal reviewer Mazen has a selection of stellar (mostly) black and death metal releases as his favorite of the year with Sulphur Aeon, Varathron, Moonlight Sorcery, Cruciamentum, Suffocation, Dying Fetus, Asphodelus, Marduk, …And Oceans, and Cirith Ungol!
The international death metal quartet Cruciamentum finally returns with the sophomore “Obsidian Refractions” and delivers a majestic opus of crushing death metal, out via Profound Lore Records, on November 24th.
Sect of Vile Divinities gradually crushes and overwhelms the listener each track is textured with deep growls as for the riffs they keep the tone morbid and eerie.
Vacivus latest offering “Annihilism” is another drastic development of perfecting their concept of death metal.
Sempiternal Dusk seems to master their art of death/doom metal each riff is like a monstrous tidal wave that has a monumental and crushing brutality.
“A Beacon in the Husk” is modern death metal of an eerie type. It is a complex record that requires time to assimilate its varied contents.
