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Humanity’s Last Breath – Välde

February 12, 2021

Music is cyclical. Beyond the obvious patterns of write-record-release and press runs and tours and merch drops, there is an unspoken undercurrent carrying it all aloft. Good music, or what is perceived as goo... Read More...

EXCLUSIVE PREMIERE: Contrarian Return To the Future Once More With “Scarlet Babylon”

Eden Kupermintz

October 1, 2020

Premieres

In case you've been living under a rock, or are simply not in tune to the currents of death metal (a legitimate thing to not be in tune with), Contrarian are one of the bands leading the thrust of current OSDM... Read More...

Editors’ Picks – August 2020

Heavy Blog

September 2, 2020

Columns, Editors' Picks

As you might have guessed already, the Monthly Missive's intro will be taking much of the spotlight away from this intro. But the Editors' Picks intro is something I've been writing for years now, ever since w... Read More...

Krallice – Mass Cathexis

Jonathan Adams

August 13, 2020

Reviews

It’s been written numerous times over the past several months, but more than at any other point in time it bears repeating here: Colin Marston is absolutely owning 2020. His recording and production aesthetics... Read More...

REVIEW AND EXCLUSIVE PREMIERE: Atræ Bilis foment galactic destruction with “Sulphur Curtain” and their debut LP, Divinihility

Jonathan Adams

August 11, 2020

Premieres, Reviews

It takes a bit for an album to captivate me immediately nowadays. To be honest, the sheer glut of excellent death metal in particular over the past several years has increased my threshold in regard to the lev... Read More...

Editors’ Picks – July 2020

Heavy Blog

August 7, 2020

Editors' Picks

We're still doing this, huh? We're still pretending as if this is as worse as it gets, as if it this is rough, sure, but we can do this, we got this? For me, July (and August) are when everything gets even wor... Read More...

PREMIERE: Brace Your Peripheral Cortex for this Cover of Necrophagist’s “Dawn and Demise”

Scott Murphy

August 6, 2020

Interviews

Earlier this year, I raved about the eccentric death metal on God Kaiser Hell, the debut album from Peripheral Cortex. I praised the German quartet for their eclectic approach to songwriting, which recalls the... Read More...

EXCLUSIVE PREMIERE: Spectrum of Delusion initiate tech death destruction with “Through Mankind’s True Ambition”

Jonathan Adams

August 5, 2020

Premieres

Technical death metal has been in a full-blown renaissance over the past few years, particularly in the most brutal corners of the subgenre’s auspices. Devourment, Unfathomable Ruination, Nile, Wormhole, Disen... Read More...

Xythlia – Immortality Through Quantum Suicide

Jonathan Adams

July 22, 2020

Reviews

Much has been written throughout music journalism over the past few months about the current state of the world and how it can be/should be/has been applied to music creation and consumption. To the point that... Read More...

Hey! Listen to Astralborne!

Eden Kupermintz

July 16, 2020

Listen To This!

Astralborne are a band that has already appeared on the blog several times but only in further listening lists so far. So I've decided to correct that wrong and give them their own post; they certainly deserve... Read More...

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