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Sharing TogetherChain Reaction Self-Released2006 Terrible band name, but thankfully the sound doesn’t match! Whorecore plays neither, say, swoop-do’d metalcore nor gore-grind, as the name might imply. Instead, this Israeli outfit rolls out death/grind like Belgian bands Leng Tch’e and Aborted, with plenty of half-speed grooves amid the requisite blasting. In fact, Svencho of these two […]

Impermanence of BeingMimetic Conflation Brutal Bands2004 Speaking of Belgian metal, Emeth is an ultra-brutal death metal band on the aptly-named Brutal Bands label. What makes death metal “ultra-brutal” and not just “brutal”? Really, it’s all about vibe. In terms of sheer force, Suffocation hits just as hard as Emeth. Yet the latter is “ultra-brutal” because […]

Two more reviews up – at Metal Injection, I’ve covered the new Crimson Falls, absolutely ripping Belgian metalcore that’s pretty much death metal but for the occasional breakdown. At Stylus, I’ve reviewed the Meshuggah reissue of Nothing.