REVIEWED: 1914 - 'Where Fear and Weapons Meet'
With their gloomy meditations on the mud-soaked miseries of World War I, military-themed metal crew 1914 continue their advance into the...
A choice selection of the latest albums and EPs currently blowing the DM office speakers
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REVIEWED: Pathology - 'The Everlasting Plague'
Californian bruisers Pathology have been spewing out visceral chunks of slamming death metal at what you could consider a violent pace....
REVIEWED: Obscura - 'A Valediction'
German progressive death metal figureheads Obscura have been revered for many years amongst fans of the more technical side of extreme...
REVIEWED: Hate - 'Rugia'
From their every weightily pulverising blast and gargantuan slab of sinewy groove to elegantly manipulated lashing of tremolo, Hate have...
REVIEWED: Aborted - 'ManiaCult'
It’s hard to believe it’s been a full three years since Aborted spectacularly decimated eardrums with the brutalising, ingeniously...
REVIEWED: Boss Keloid - ‘Family The Smiling Thrush’
The phrase “life-affirming” is tossed out all too rarely these days, but Boss Keloid can comfortably claim this appellation. A band whose...
REVIEWED: Noctule - 'Wretched Abyss'
The pandemic has seen music choked in so many ways, especially live, and more than a few bands have certainly suffered and even...
REVIEWED: At The Gates - 'The Nightmare of Being'
When it comes to accepting or (God forbid) perhaps even actively embracing a band’s natural sonic evolution, our beloved extreme metal...
REVIEWED: Seth - 'La Morsure du Christ'
There’s something about the sight of a burning church that’s always guaranteed to leave us black metal fanatics feeling all warm and...
REVIEWED: CROWN - 'The End Of All Things'
Sometimes, underground music, for all its rejection of the mainstream and outcast mojo, can be quite conservative. We might sneer at the...