Posted on May 4, 2012

Cannibal Corpse: Torture

In the awesomely zombified April issue of Decibel Magazine (#90), there’s an interview with current Cannibal Corpse members. It’s a good read that you should check out if you can. Within that interview, there’s a quote from drummer Paul Mazurkiewicz that describes one of the founding pillars of American death metal thusly: “What has Cannibal [...]

Posted on April 10, 2012

Goatwhore: Blood for the Master

Goatwhore’s 2009 full-length, Carving Out the Eyes of God was an amazing album, rife with memorable hymns of religion bashing mayhem. Well, the New Orleans based band is back with even more apocalyptic blackened death/thrash in the form of Blood for the Master. This album, however, isn’t a simple rehashing of what made Carving a [...]

Posted on January 16, 2012

Cannibal Corpse Show Off Album Cover and Single

America’s reigning kings of brutality, CANNIBAL CORPSE, will unleash their twelfth studio offering this March via Metal Blade Records. Aptly titled Torture, the follow-up to 2009′s Evisceration Plague offers up 12 tracks of maniacally precise, soul-searing death metal. Torture was again produced by Hate Eternal’s Erik Rutan at his own Mana Recording Studio in St. [...]

Posted on August 17, 2011

Vomitory: Opus Mortis VIII

VomitoryOpus Mortis VIII 3.5 Metal Blade Records Apr 26, 2011 User Rating: Track Listing Regorge in the Morgue Bloodstained They Will Burn The Dead Awaken Hate in a Time of War Torturous Ingenious Forever Damned Shrouded in Darkness Combat Psychosis Requiem for the Fallen Vomitory has been around the block a few times in their [...]

Posted on July 20, 2011

The Gates of Slumber: The Wretch

The Gates of SlumberThe Wretch 4.5 Metal Blade Records May 5, 2011 User Rating: Track Listing Bastards Born The Scourge ov Drunkenness To the Rack with Them Day of Farewell Castle of the Devil Coven of Cain The Wretch Iron and Fire I’ve never been a big fan of The Gates of Slumber. There was [...]

Posted on July 6, 2011

Hate Eternal: Phoenix Amongst the Ashes

Hate EternalPhoenix Amongst the Ashes 5 Metal Blade Records May 10, 2011 User Rating: Track Listing Rebirth The Eternal Ruler Thorns of Acacia Haunting Abound The Art of Redemption Phoenix Amongst the Ashes Deathveil Hatesworn Lake Ablaze The Fire of Resurrection Holy fucking shit. Phoenix Amongst the Ashes, the mighty Hate Eternal’s latest full-length dose [...]

Posted on May 31, 2011

Amon Amarth: Surtur Rising

Amon AmarthSurtur Rising 4 Metal Blade Records Mar 29, 2011 User Rating: Track Listing War of the Gods Töck’s Taunt – Loke’s Treachery Part II Destroyer of the Universe Slaves of Fear Live Without Regrets The Last Stand of Frej For Victory or Death Wrath of the Norsemen A Beast Am I Doom Over Dead [...]

Posted on March 16, 2011

Full Blown Chaos: s/t

Full Blown ChaosFull Blown Chaos 3.5 Metal Blade Records Feb 1, 2011 User Rating: Track Listing Doomageddon Villains Rise & Conquer The Walking Dead Silence Is Golden Die Like You Live Gravedigger Gutter Mouth War Machines Battle Hymns and Broken Bones C.O.B.R.A. Cain Marko The Path I Walk To this day I still play the [...]

Posted on March 8, 2011

Electric Wizard: Black Masses

Electric WizardBlack Masses 3.5 Metal Blade Records Jan 18, 2011 User Rating: Track Listing Black Mass Venus in Furs The Nightchild Patterns of Evil Satyr IX Turn Off Your Mind Scorpio Curse Crypt of Drugula Fuck yes! Electric Wizard are back with another helping of scuzzed out doom. The band’s seventh studio album, Black Masses, [...]

Posted on February 1, 2011

God Dethroned: Under the Sign of the Iron Cross

God DethronedUnder the Sign of the Iron Cross 4.5 Metal Blade Records Nov 22, 2010 User Rating: Track Listing The Declaration of War Storm of Steel Fire Storm The Killing is Faceless Under the Sign of the Iron Cross Chaos Reigns at Dawn Through Byzantine Hemispheres The Red Baron On Fields of Death and Desolation [...]

Posted on January 18, 2011

Amon Amarth Reveal “Surtur Rising” Details

Sweden’s AMON AMARTH are currently gearing up to unleash, Surtur Rising, the eighth studio offering in their critically revered pantheon of Viking-inspired death metal. Named in tribute to Surtur, leader of the fire giants of Muspelheim (“flame land”) and the oldest being in the nine worlds of Norse mythology, the record, which was listed among [...]

Posted on December 26, 2010

Facebreaker: Infected

FacebreakerInfected 3.5 Metal Blade Records Nov 9, 2010 User Rating: Track Listing Creeping Flesh Cannibalistic Torn to Shreds Epidemic Bloodshed Mankind Under Siege Waiting for the Pain Into the Pit Bloodthirst Reanimating the Dead Infected Facebreaker‘s jump from Pulverised Records to the open arms of Metal Blade doesn’t seem to have affected their affinity for [...]

Posted on November 17, 2010

Hail of Bullets: On Divine Winds

Artist: Hail of Bullets Album: On Divine Winds Rating: 4/5 Label: Metal Blade Records Release Date: Oct 11, 2010 User Rating: Track Listing The Eve Of Battle Operation Z The Mukden Incident Strategy Of Attrition Full Scale War Guadalcanal On Choral Shores Unsung Heroes Tokyo Napalm Holocaust Sugarloaf Hill Kamikaze To Bear The Unbearable Having [...]

Posted on July 9, 2010

Aeon: Path of Fire

Artist: Aeon Album: Path of Fire Rating: 3.5/5 Label: Metal Blade Records Release Date: May 25, 2010 User Rating: Track Listing Forgiveness Denied Kill Them All Inheritance Abomination to God Total Kristus Invictus Of Fire I Will Burn Suffer the Soul The Sacrament Liar in the Name of God God of War Let’s make no [...]

Posted on June 30, 2010

Lightning Swords of Death: The Extra Dimensional Wound

Artist: Lightning Swords of Death Album: The Extra Dimensional Wound Rating: 3.5/5 Label: Metal Blade Records Release Date: May 25, 2010 User Rating: Track Listing The Extra Dimensional Wound Nihilistic Stench Invoke the Desolate One Zwartgallig Damnation Pentastrike Venter of the Black Beast Vorticating into Scars Paths to Chaos Hailing from the barren, frigid regions [...]

Posted on June 2, 2010

Brain Drill: Quantum Catastrophe

Artist: Brain Drill Album: Quantum Catastrophe Label: Metal Blade Records Release Date: May 11, 2010 Rating: 3/5 User Rating: Track Listing Obliteration Untold Beyond Bludgeoned Awaiting Imminent Destruction Nemesis of Neglect Entity of Extinction Mercy to None Monumental Failure Quantum Catastrophe Well, shit. I suppose that I should have seen this coming. I mean, if [...]

Posted on May 14, 2010

Arma Gathas: Dead To This World

Artist: Arma Gathas Album: Dead To This World Label: Metal Blade Records Release Date: Apr 27, 2010 Rating: 3/5 User Rating: Track Listing Antagonist The Rise And Fall Losing Hope The Lies Of Man The Damage Done Liberate Me Depopulation New Saviour Generation Doom Protagonist God’s Wrath Constant Hunt For Blood Our Final Breath – [...]

Posted on May 7, 2010

Woe of Tyrants: Threnody

Artist: Woe of Tyrants Album: Threnody Label: Metal Blade Records Release Date: Apr 13, 2010 Rating: 3/5 User Rating: Track Listing Tetelestai Creatures of the Mire Venom Eye Tempting the Wretch Threnody Bloodsmear The Venus Orbit Lightning Over Atlantis Singing Surrender Descendit Ad Inferos (The Harrowing of Hell) I’m not usually big on the whole [...]