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THÆTAS – Shrines to Absurdity

June 30, 2020

Like 2019 and 2018 before it, 2020 is A Year of Death Metal. Obviously death metal isn’t the only metal subgenre seeing great releases at the moment - a cursory look at our Best-Of lists from the past couple ... Read More...

The Anatomy Of: The Sound That Ends Creation

Jimmy Rowe

December 5, 2019

The Anatomy Of

Texas one-man mathgrind project The Sound That Ends Creation is a bit of a hidden gem that we're doing our best to highlight wherever possible. Our very own Matt McLennan gave the new album Music Designed To G... Read More...

Hour of Penance – Misotheism

Joshua Bulleid

October 23, 2019

Reviews

There's often a lot of emphasis on the best death metal being progressive or technical – especially around these parts; And often the best death metal is the most progressive and/or technical. Yet, also... Read More...

Death’s Door // June 2019

Jonathan Adams

July 9, 2019

Death's Door

Welcome to Death’s Door, Hellions. Pop a squat on a bone throne and get comfy. There’s plenty of premium content to be had in the world of death metal, and Scott and I are here to deliver unto thee the goods. ... Read More...

Grind My Gears – Tune Low. No, Lower Than That. Lower Still. There We Go.

Matt MacLennan

June 13, 2019

Grind My Gears, Listen To This!

This one's a little bit rushed, as I forgot I had a Grind My Gears to write today, so bear with me while I rush through three new releases for you. All humanely sourced through Bandcamp's grindcore tag, the thr... Read More...

Heavy Issues: Which Track Taints an Otherwise Outstanding Album?

Joshua Bulleid

May 22, 2019

Heavy Issues

We here at Heavy Blog like to ponder the big questions: Who are we? Why are we here? Thrash ballads: yay or nay? You know, the big stuff. In order to better address such pressing matters, we bring you Heavy Iss... Read More...

Truth Corroded – Bloodlands

Joshua Bulleid

March 21, 2019

Reviews

Adeleaide's Truth Corroded have long been one of the most respected names in Australian metal. Yet, although they've been putting out brilliant releases since the early years of the new millennium, they've nev... Read More...

Death’s Vault // Master – On the Seventh Day God Created… Master

Joshua Bulleid

September 17, 2018

Death's Vault

Last week we premiered the outstanding “Stand Up and Be Counted” from Master's forthcoming thirteenth full-length Vindictive Miscreant. Now we take a look back at their long-forgotten second album, On the Seven... Read More...

Hey! Listen to Anachronism!

Joshua Bulleid

July 26, 2018

Listen To This!

2018 has been the year that progressive, technical death metal reigned supreme; with outstanding releases from Rivers of Nihil, Alkaloid, Augury, Slugdge, Obscura and countless others dominating the year's musi... Read More...

Construct of Lethe – Exiler

Jonathan Adams

July 2, 2018

Reviews

The balance between technical nuance and sheer, unadulterated power in death metal is not always easy to strike. Often (at least to these polluted ears) it feels as if death metal bands must sacrifice one for t... Read More...

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