Here we have classic heavy metal from Germany with solid vocals and playing. This is very much in the vein of 80s European metal, with a lit...

This is the third album from this black metalpunk band. At the heart of their sound is second-wave black metal, but it's laid overtop a punk...

tometal.com 10/10 CRUSHED FUCKING SKULLS A lot of folks first hear the thrash and hardcore in Ninth Realm's influences, but I hear and feel ...

obscurityrecords1.bandcamp.com 8/10 CRUSHED FUCKING SKULLS The Archives tells me next to nothing about this band, other than they're signed ...

Dart from Finland have chosen to mix speed metal and hardcore punk and have churned out quite the record. It comes off sounding like an ampe...

xtreemmusic.com 7/10 CRUSHED FUCKING SKULLS When Desecresy first hit the scene back in 2010 or so, I knew it was going to be a special and i...

morgarath-dt.bandcamp.com 7/10 CRUSHED FUCKING SKULLS Morgarath from Poland play a delightfully rough and morbid mixture of black, death, an...

This is rather raw black metal with a distinctly US feel to it, and it comes to us from Oklahoma. Mainly big, open riffs are used, with lots...

nihilisticholocaustrecs.bandcamp.com 8/10 CRUSHED FUCKING SKULLS Feretro have finally delivered a full length after a long stretch of demos ...

suiciderecords.se 6/10 CRUSHED FUCKING SKULLS Obstruktion from Sweden play an absolutely seamless melding of death metal and metallic, disso...

Goddess is a recently renamed band from Sweden (they were formerly Goatess and had three full lengths under that name, and I personally thin...

Ah, yes, epic heavy metal. It's one of my favorite things on planet Earth, and right up there with death metal as far as satisfying my metal...

lavadome.org 9/10 CRUSHED FUCKING SKULLS I've been a fan of Chaos Inception for a long time, and of their predecessor Fleshtized before that...

www.sevared.com 10/10 CRUSHED FUCKING SKULLS A new band comprised of scene veterans, Protrusion explodes from the Indiana underground with t...

globalhelprecords.com 8/10 CRUSHED FUCKING SKULLS One Day in Fukushima play furious grindcore that borders on deathgrind at times. They mana...

memento-mori.es 7/10 CRUSHED FUCKING SKULLS This is the first full length from Milwaukee's death merchants Horrid Mass, following up a demo ...

personal-records.com gurglinggore.com 10/10 CRUSHED FUCKING SKULLS After a remarkably prolific several years (2020-2024), this is the first ...

miscreation.bandcamp.com 7/10 CRUSHED FUCKING SKULLS Miscreation hail from Germany and play straightforward death metal with quality. They f...

Torpor from Poland have concocted something quite unique and original, being black metal musically but heavy metal vocally, with epic melodi...

brainbathdm.bandcamp.com 10/10 CRUSHED FUCKING SKULLS Hailing from Glasgow, Scotland comes Brainbath, who play death metal firmly grounded i...

personal-records.com 6/10 CRUSHED FUCKING SKULLS Demonic Manifestation play heavy as fuck death metal from Mexico with a dose of darkness co...

everlastingspew.com 6/10 CRUSHED FUCKING SKULLS Nothingness has returned with a third full length, but this is my first encounter with the b...

This is the second full length from this band that apparently began its life in 1987 and released a spate of demos and EPs up until their fi...

Coffin Hunters play a unique form of heavy metal that mixes the sounds of the '70s with more modern heavy metal tropes. Think 1970s Judas Pr...

concretorecs.com 7/10 CRUSHED FUCKING SKULLS This is very much brutal death metal in the Suffocation style, with playful riffs and tons of t...

metalrace.com 9/10 CRUSHED FUCKING SKULLS Sinister Void play completely heads-down death thrash that reminds me of the best of the late '80s...

Hailing from France, this is the band's fourth full length of darkly melodic heavy metal with a slight gothic tinge. It's also their third r...

pathologicallyexplicitrecords.com 7/10 CRUSHED FUCKING SKULLS Here we have brutal death metal in the vein of Suffocation and Dying Fetus tha...

doctrineofgore.bandcamp.com 5/10 CRUSHED FUCKING SKULLS After opening with a Goblin-esque intro, we get four tracks of decently crafted and ...

satanikroyaltyrecords.com 6/10 CRUSHED FUCKING SKULLS I thought I'd give this a review even though it appears the band has split up since th...

returntriprecords.bandcamp.com 3/10 CRUSHED FUCKING SKULLS Crypts of Golgotha return with their first full length, but overall it's a pretty...

This band from Denmark has blown me away, just flooring me with their black speed metal attack. From the '80s Metallica- and Slayer-isms to ...

lithopaedia-ca.bandcamp.com 7/10 CRUSHED FUCKING SKULLS Lithopaedia from LA play a groove-forward style of brutal death metal that I found q...

crowsnest22.bigcartel.com 5/10 CRUSHED FUCKING SKULLS Venomous Invokation hail from Nashville, TN, and they arise with a new demo with a tit...

pulverised.net 7/10 CRUSHED FUCKING SKULLS From Spain comes this Swedish-style death metal band, a band I was interested in because they nam...

The fantastically absurd science fiction cover of this record caught my attention immediately. A woman with a laser gun riding a tiger on a ...

Here's something I don't review all the time - gothic metal. The reason I chose this to review is that this isn't a typical gothic metal rec...

www.metalblade.com 7/10 CRUSHED FUCKING SKULLS It's been three years since last we heard from Endseeker, one of the better of the crop of HM...

www.redefiningdarkness.com 8/10 CRUSHED FUCKING SKULLS Texas has a hell of a scene, and Haserot from Houston are no exception to the quality...

Black thrash bands tend to be a dime a dozen, and they're often fairly interchangeable. Enter Axe with their Autogeddon  demo, a solid slab ...

tometal.com 8/10 CRUSHED FUCKING SKULLS Again I must say it. I really enjoy some of the bands infusing death metal with metallic hardcore, e...

brutal-mind.com 8/10 CRUSHED FUCKING SKULLS It's been seventeen years since Vomepotro graced our ears with a record, and it's a welcome retu...

rottedlife.com 7/10 CRUSHED FUCKING SKULLS Coming from my former home state of Ohio is Sarcoughagus, giving us some damn fine death metal. T...

It's uncommon for a band to name their fifth album after themselves - it's usually a statement made earlier in a band's career, typically on...

thischarmingmanrecords.com 7/10 CRUSHED FUCKING SKULLS No Shelter has mixed a base of Swedish-style death metal with metallic hardcore and i...

The influential Devourment have arisen to give us three songs of their patented brutal death metal on this new 7" from Relapse Records (I ho...

On this split Kerzenlicht give us four tracks of raw black metal while Kirous give us three tracks of (less raw) black metal. Kerzenlicht, f...

bloodharvest.se 8/10 CRUSHED FUCKING SKULLS Tombal from Italy give us four songs and a creepy intro on this new release of vicious HM-2 deat...

rottedlife.com 9/10 CRUSHED FUCKING SKULLS Nuclear Tomb are back and they're firing on all cylinders on this second full length, bringing us...