Bloodletter – Leave The Light Behind
Chicago thrashers Bloodletter have shredded stages across the USA for over twelve years. Their new album Leave the Light Behind is a vicious culmination of over a decade’s worth of sweaty moshpits, broken bones, and riffs sharp as a guillotine blade. After releasing A Different Kind of Hell in 2023, Bloodletter headlined the third volume of Wise Blood’s black thrash split series “Faster Than the Devil” last year. Those three new songs revealed an even darker and more sinister version…
Warslaughter – Exacerbación
Excrement drenched death metal reigns supreme! In the most repugnant corners of Valencia, Spain the band known as Warslaughter lurks! Founded in 2020 they found their niche playing the most grotesque death metal that their instruments can conjure. Now after two full-length albums and a handful of demos, they have attained new depths of filth their EP Exacerbación! Originally released in October 2024 with limited tape runs from Profaner Records and Elf Eggs, this oozing muck has finally crept its…
Antagonizör – Edgelords From Hell
From the southern cesspool formally referred to as “Gainesville, Florida” comes Antagonizör – a trio of metalpunk maniacs made up of Sarah (guitar/vocals) Tzu Wei (bass), and Mykel the Drum Slave (guess what instrument he plays)! After a handful of filth-fueled EPs, the band has finally released their first full-length album entitled Edgelords From Hell! Featuring a barrage of classic heavy metal riffs, unfaltering punk rock rhythms, and more “fuck you” attitude than is healthy this release will hit your…
Marble Orchard – Ruminations of Ruin
Within the walls of a cathedral, life’s sorrow seems to linger. Although the elegant architecture was designed to demonstrate the glory of the almighty, it only serves to cast long shadows in the hearts of those who are suffering. This distinct kind of melancholy is the foundation for gothic doom metal act Marble Orchard in both soul and sound. Their second full-length album Ruminations of Ruin escalates the levels of both misery and majesty. According to the band: “‘Ruminations of…
Demon Sacrifice – Under the Blacklight of Divine
Black metal punk from the abyss! Demon Sacrifice has risen out of the Special Region of Yogyakarta in Indonesia to deliver something both profound and chaotic — their first EP entitled Under the Blacklight of Divine. These fiends have taken filthy metalpunk madness and wrapped it tightly in a gothic cloak. An inescapable fog of gloom permeates every tone in this frantic, aggressive nightmare! You should expect to wake up in the dead of night, heart pounding and covered in…
Drymarchon – Mori In Igne
Drymarchon has torn through chains and broken down stone to deliver their dark, maniacal sound to us all! Mori In Igne (which is Latin for ‘Die In A Fire’) is the first full-length album from Drymarchon and features a host of frantic death/thrash metal that will drive you into frenzy! This one-man act is the brainchild of Sean Deth known for his involvement in Osi and the Jupiter, Burial Oath, and a variety of other projects. The album saw a…
Nunslaughter / Kurnugia – The Halls of Leviathan
On October 5th, 2022 at Mercinary Studios in Cleveland, Ohio a private event cumulated in explosive dual performances from death metal maniacs Kurnugia and Nunslaughter. Kurnugia‘s brooding old-school aggression roared through the speakers while Nunslaughter tapped into their most ferocious and unhinged sense of sound. The events of that night would not be forgotten — all chaos was captured live on the studio equipment and a perfect record of the unholy sonic assault was created. Today we know this as…
Burial Oath – Beyond the Vale of Shadowlands
From out of the mists they emerge, as grim as ever — Burial Oath. Although the band has taken a variety of forms since their inception, today they come as phantoms of their past selves. In 2017 Burial Oath released their first full-length album Beyond the Vale of Shadowlands and now in 2024 it returns, remastered and ready to ruin you! The album is as bleak as ever, demonstrating the ferocity of US black metal wrapped up in foreboding atmospheric…
Acid Mass – Worship
Filthy heavy metal rules our lives, and so it’s time for WORSHIP! Acid Mass has already pummeled our ears with the debut album Agonizer as well as the Lust For Violence and Upon The Knife EPs, but now its time to double down on debauchery with a second and even more depraved full-length album entitled Worship! Decades of underground thrash come to a head all at once, defiling decency in an absolute rampage of grimy metal madness! One-man wrecking crew…
Dear Darkness – Doin It Hard
Dear Darkness is an entity unlike any other! — Or maybe they’re exactly like every other entity, but in new and wild ways! However you want to take it, you’d better hold on to your butts, because Dear Darkness is coming in hot! Stacey and Michelle are a two-piece that cannot be contained, playing noisy garage punk that will blow your ears off before it sticks you with a knife! The Detroit duo has released a handful of EPs over…