death metal

Hacride At Metal Injection, I’ve reviewed Hacride, whose Amoeba is the first metal album this year that drives me to evangelical fervor. It’s like Gojira…but with acoustic guitar…and one song, “Zambra,” with a Spanish flamenco group! Strange, thrilling, futuristic. Also up are my review of Facedown band Means and an interview with Dying Fetus. Hacride […]

GriefLeave This Place Self-Released2005 Maitreya is the Buddha of the future, a savior figure who will return to Earth to do good things, unite people, and so on. Quite a lofty name for a band. Whether this Swedish outfit will save metal remains to be seen, but its debut certainly shows promise. Opeth comes to […]

Melechesh If you were wondering where Andy from No One Here Is Asking and Jason from Sonic Corpse Glide went (and you will know them by their trail of dead blogs), they’ve joined forces in the blog merger of the year. Now they’re at Clocked In – Punched Out, which is off to a running […]

Phazm New review is up at Stylus of French black ‘n’ death ‘n’ roll outfit Phazm. Up at Metal Injection are reviews of ex-Megadeth shredder Marty Friedman and Equal Vision artists Hot Cross. Phazm – Black ‘n’ RollHot Cross – Silence Is Failure

The Guide Scarlet2006 We started the week with one, so we’ll end it with another – a metal band with keyboards and horrible artwork. I don’t get why bands give themselves two strikes like this at the outset. Maybe they enjoy the challenge. Although ugly artwork is an occupational hazard one accepts as a metal […]

Dying Fetus New reviews are up at Metal Injection of Seattle sludgesters Iamthethorn, featuring Himsa’s John Pettibone on vocals, and the infamous Dying Fetus. For some reason, Cannibal Corpse, Necrophagist, and Aborted seem like sensible metal band names to me, but I still get self-conscious when I tell people I like Dying Fetus. At Stylus, […]

Oracle of Armageddon Prosthetic2007 Next to racism and homophobia, keyboards are what I hate most in metal. Occasionally, they’re tasteful, like with, say, Opeth or Burst. But all too often, they muck up the mix and are a lazy way to add harmonic color. Fender, Gibson, Jackson…Korg? I don’t think so. Thus, any metal band […]

Su-Nung, ChthoniC erhu player New reviews up – Taiwanese symphonic black metallers ChthoniC; Laethora, featuring Niklas Sundin from Dark Tranquillity; and Arkansas’ answer to Meshuggah, The Handshake Murders. ChthoniC – The Gods WeepLaethora – Black Void Remembrance

Hail Infernal Darkness Moribund2006 If the death metal greats of the ’90s had heard the Origins and Necrophagists of today, they would have been shocked and mystified – shocked at the speed and technicality, and mystified at how streamlined the sound had become. Somewhere along the way, the raw edge got lost. That’s not necessarily […]

Up at Metal Injection are reviews of Christian hardcore punkers xDeathstarx, not-so-Christian Swedish death metallers Impious, and Dutch black metal band Sauron.