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Band: FROGG Album: A Reptilian Dystopia (EP) Country: USA Genre: Technical Metal Label: Independent Release Date: January 17, 2020  9/10
FROGG have succeeded where others in the tech-metal cesspool have failed this year. They have produced a fresh & enjoyable 5-course meal of original organic riffs, unsaturated with lameness & paired impeccably with a robust production worthy of all bedroom audio nerdz. A Reptilian Dystopia should be a huge part of everyone's 2020 playlist. Band: WHISPERS IN THE MAZE Album: Threads Unbind Country: Canada Genre: Melodic Metal Label: Independent Release Date: July 25, 2019  7/10
Unbound from Canada's Cold Capital City, WHISPERS IN THE MAZE are a talented metal band fresh off the ice with a debut EP that rips...slowly and melodically. Threads Unbind is a promising prophecy of what's to come with this band as they grow in harmony with their own poetic brand of melo-proggy-metal goodness. This little record is rammed with talent and sounds great with the volume cranked to 666! Band: CELL Album: Ancient Incantations of Xarbos Country: Canada Genre: Black Metal Label: Independent Release Date: October 4, 2019  8.5/10
Canadian Black Metal maniacs CELL have released one hell of a new album! This is a genre-bending, face-melting, dimension-crossing, mind-fucking experience that crosses all of the streams that should not be crossed. Ancient Incantations of Xarbos is a frenetic cosmic voyage into sheer madness, guided by an immense display of raw, heavy metal magic. Band: SOPHIST Album: Betrothal to the Stone: Conception of Mephisto Country: Canada Genre: Grind / Black Metal Label: Independent Release Date: August 16, 2019  7/10
Betrothal to the Stone: Conception of Mephisto is an EP that should be shunned based on production & cover art alone, yet it is a defiantly and remarkably strong musical release. SOPHIST have cleverely entwined grind & black metal like venomous snakes mating on a bed of putrefying flesh. Dive deep into this EP and your reward shall be deathly sweet. Band: TALES OF THE TOMB Album: Volume Two: Mendacium Country: Canada Genre: Death Metal Label: Independent Release Date: September 27, 2019  8/10
Canada is reguarly securing itself at the top of the death metal food chain by churning out killer, talented and unique bands. Although not unique, TALES OF THE TOMB are definitely killer! Their new, independently released EP is heavy as ice and laced up with razor-sharp production. Volume Two: Mendacium is a non-stop frosty riff fest, delivered on a moose-poutine platter of awesome production thanks to the Canucks over at The Grid. Slapshot your wallets & pick up this death metal gem on September 27. Fackin' giver, eh. Band: WITCH VOMIT Album: Buried Deep In A Bottomless Grave Country: United States Genre: Death Metal Label: 20 Buck Spin https://www.20buckspin.com/ Release Date: August 30, 2019  9/10
WITCH VOMIT have solidified themselves as one of today's most menacing death metal outfits with the unleashing of their newest record via 20 Buck Spin. Every once in a while, an album gets released to balance the metal scales, sending weak-ass poseurs back to their depths of their parent's basement to weep in fear. WITCH VOMIT have done exactly that with Buried Deep In A Bottomless Grave. This is a must-have record for any trve death metal fan. Band: CULTED Album: Vespertina Synaxis: A Prayer for Union & Emptiness Country: Sweden / Canada Genre: Doom / Black Metal Label: Season of Mist http://www.season-of-mist.com Release Date: August 30, 2019  8.5/10
CULTED dive deep into the tenebrous depths of blackened doom with a malevolent display of control, ushering an unnerving atmosphere that glimpses into the angered mayhem that lurks beneath it all. Vespertina Synaxis: A Prayer for Union & Emptiness is more than an EP; it's the musical embodiment of a corpse decaying in the moonlight. Band: CEMETERY LIGHTS Album: The Underworld Country: United States Genre: Black Metal Label: Nuclear War Now! Productions http://nwnprod.com/ Release Date: August 31, 2019  1/10
The Underworld by CEMETERY LIGHTS is one of the most underwhelming & uninspired albums of this century. Sometimes, garage bands need to stay in the goddamn garage. Band: TOMB MOLD Album: Planetary Clairvoyance Country: Canada Genre: Death Metal Label: 20 Buck Spin https://www.20buckspin.com/ Release Date: July 19, 2019  9/10
Planetary Clairvoyance is a straight-up, in-your-face, zero bullshit death metal album that authentically stands out from the overcrowded and the overproduced . TOMB MOLD are a lethal death metal organism destined to propagate and infect soyboy scenester fuckpads with their unapologetic brand of cellulose-degrading brutality. Band: DISSENTIENT Album: Portal III Country: Canada Genre: Progressive Death Metal Label: Independent Release Date: August 23, 2019  8.5/10
If you want to know what it feels like to get clusterfucked by a hailstorm of death metal binary, tap into DISSENTIENT's circuitry. Their newest album, Portal III, is a balanced, precise and well-coded progressive yet mechanical machine that takes its time to unravel all of its hidden Easter eggs. If foreplay had an anthem, this would be it. Band: DEVOURMENT Album: Obscene Majesty Country: United States Genre: Brutal Death/Slam Label: Relapse Records https://store.relapse.com/ Release Date: August 16, 2019  5/10
DEVOURMENT return after 6 years with Obscene Majesty - an album so slamtastic & heavy that it decimated all clarity, leaving nothing but a decapitated stump to molest. This album has all of the potential to be majestic but falls short with its obscene production. Band: GOREZONE Album: Implexaeon Country: Germany Genre: Brutal Death Grind Label: Rising Nemesis Records http://risingnemesisrecords.bigcartel.com/ Release Date: August 24, 2019  9/10
GOREZONE unleashes an unrelenting assault on the senses, determined to hack your face into morsels of bloodsoaked flesh with Implexaeon. It's an impressive amalgamation of sheer lunacy and raw talent. If Implexaeon doesn't make you want to wipe out humanity, we don't know what will. Band: SHADOW OF INTENT Album: Melancholy Country: United States Genre: Symphonic Deathcore Label: Independent Release Date: August 16, 2019  7/10
Melancholy is an incredibly unique deathcore album with a ton of depth and creativity that will get you pumped, especially on the first or second spin. Band: WORMED Album: Metaportal Country: Spain Genre: Technical Death Metal Label: Season of Mist http://www.season-of-mist.com Release Date: June 19, 2019  5/10
WORMED managed to slip into a vortex of mediocrity with Metaportal. It lacks the substance that WORMED is known to create & falls especially flat due to the album's duration. Band: BEHEADED Album: Only Death Can Save You Country: Malta Genre: Death Metal Label: Agonia Records https://agoniarecords.bandcamp.com Release Date: June 14, 2019  7/10
BEHEADED delivers Only Death Can Save You on a finely crafted Maltese platter - a solid death metal album without any surprises, garnished with a killer production and a dash of no mercy. Band: ECLIPSER Album: Pathos Country: Canada Genre: Black/Death Metal Label: Noise Salvation https://noisesalvation.bandcamp.com Release Date: September 6, 2019  9/10
Pathos is a refreshing album that holds nothing back, delivering fiery punch after fiery punch until you are nothing but ash being carried away by a cold winter wind. Band: HUMANITY'S LAST BREATH Album: Abyssal Country: Sweden Genre: Death Metal Label: Unique Leader Records https://www.uniqueleader.com Release Date: August 2, 2019  10/10
Abyssal is a terrifying journey into the depths of death metal madness; an unequivocal masterpiece that properly merges a variety of musical elements into a cohesive maelstrom of heaviness. HUMANITY'S LAST BREATH are unpretentious in their creative prowess and deliver a stellar album from end to end. Band: ACCURSED SPAWN Album: The Virulent Host Country: Canada Genre: Death Metal Label: PRC Music http://www.prcmusic.com/ Release Date: March 20, 2019  7/10
ACCURSED SPAWN serve up an album with a little bit of everything in it for everyone. Dig through the treble to find some crushing death metal riffs lurking in a thrash metal sea of anger, waiting to devour any poseur swimming unaware. The Virulent Host should be a part of every trve metalhead's playlist. Band: MISERY INDEX Album: Rituals of Power Country: United States Genre: Death/Grind Label: Season of Mist http://season-of-mist.com Release Date: March 8, 2019  9/10
It doesn't take more than getting through a few songs on this album to realize it's one of the strongest releases of 2019. Rituals of Power by Misery Index is a formidable death metal album, technically crafted from beginning to end, while retaining the grind angst from which they came. |
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