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Metal Blade Records
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Desaster – Kill All Idols
September 30, 2025
“Kill All Idols” is a smart mixture of Black and Thrash Metal with influences from the early 80s and a few Punk/Hardcore twists
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LIK - Necro
March 31, 2025
Sweden. That's all it takes to describe this banger.
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Sanhedrin – Heat Lightning
March 30, 2025
With “Heat Lightning,” SANHEDRIN once again takes up the banner of traditional metal and fights the good fight.
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Whitechapel – Hymns In Dissonance
March 18, 2025
WHITECHAPEL deliver Deathcore at superb quality. “Hymns In Dissonance” contains all the best elements of modern Deathcore: devastating riffs, hammering blast-beats, bone-chilling atmosphere, and huge breakdowns
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Killswitch Engage - This Consequence
February 25, 2025
Being one of the first bands to venture into this genre, KILLSWITCH ENGAGE has been able to invent themselves as they wanted, resulting in them making their own brand of Metalcore since 1999. These guys from Westfield in Massachusetts, USA are easily identifiable when they start playing their music. The mix of Metalcore with Thrash Metal is very distinguishable.
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Rivers of Nihil - Hierarchy (Reissue)
December 12, 2024
This is the opportunity for the fans to find the first release of these guys.
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Justin "Witty City" Wittenmeier's Top 10 albums of 2024
December 11, 2024
For this year, I kept my blog limited to strickly what I have reviewed this year through either Metal Temple or my Doomed For Metal blog. I purposely tried to keep a variety of styles, although there is a little more doom considering that's my favorite genre. I purposely left big, near mainstream bands off the list as I'm here to help bring exposure to the underground.
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200 Stab Wounds - Piles of Festering Decomposition (Reissue)
November 27, 2024
200 STAB WOUNDS play Extremely Gore Death Metal with the vocals to match. You just have to look at the covers of their albums to know that nobody and no body is spared. This slaughterhouse experience is a sadistic butchers paradise.
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The Crown – Crown Of Thorns
November 4, 2024
“Crown Of Thorns” has a very strong melodic Death Metal component, with grim, and at times epic and melancholic melodies
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Satan - Songs in Crimson
October 15, 2024
But I can hear in the sound of the guitars that SATAN is smiling. He is seeing that the world is going down fast, and that his kingdom and reign is about to take hold. That might explain why the riffs on “Songs In Crimson” sound less menacing than they usually do, instead they sound more upbeat.
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Entheos – An End to Everything
October 1, 2024
The album has very personal themes that reflect the shock in losing someone that you care deeply about, yet in some ways, you could already see the ending all painted out for you. But it doesn’t make the sting any less painful. You could clearly hear that pain reflected in the music. It is angry and raging, but very well controlled, and although it offered a variety of influences, the central theme was torture for me…the torture that comes with loss.
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Iotunn – Kinship
October 1, 2024
This album strikes an intricate balance between aggression and melody, offering an experience that feels both forceful and refined. The band pours an immense amount of melody into their hardened structures, creating a dynamic soundscape that’s as brutal as it is beautiful. What’s remarkable about this album is its ability to remain cohesive despite its sprawling ambition. They push the boundaries of the genre with complex time signatures, layered compositions, and melodies that rise like ethereal waves above the crushing weight of the music. For fans of extreme metal looking for something that transcends the typical formula, this is an album not to be missed.
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200 Stab Wounds - Manual Manic Procedures
September 19, 2024
Classic Death Metal as it must be!
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The Black Dahlia Murder – Servitude
September 7, 2024
Veteran bands like this who are signed to a major label often take the safer path, and that is what THE BLACK DAHLIA have done with “Servitude.” Knowing that their long-time fans were not up for much change with the new singer on board, they delivered an expected sound. I think Eschbach’s vocal performance was excellent on the album, they just need to take a few more chances.
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Kvaen – The Formless Fire
August 19, 2024
Sometimes, being signed to a major record label isn’t necessarily and indicator of talent. In this case however, the band does have talent, they just took the paved road of familiarity instead of forging their own path. It wasn’t a bad album by any stretch of your imagination, it was just too safe.
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Category 7 - Category 7
August 13, 2024
As you would expect and hope, the production of "Category 7" is top notch. Hard, Heavy hitting, but still with enough space for the Melodic parts that are being played. As far as I can tell CATEGORY 7 is launching themselves into the Premier League Of Thrash Metal.
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Hellbutcher - Hellbutcher
August 8, 2024
HELLBUTCHER's here to hunt down all wimps and posers with this infamous (and excellent) release!
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Cognitive - Abhorrence
August 6, 2024
Blasting into 2024 with their latest album “Abhorrence” which promises a bone-shattering technical death metal fused with deathcore
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Vulture - Sentinels
July 11, 2024
And this is a killer release from these German Thrash Metal raiders!
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Neaera – All is Dust
July 5, 2024
Not being familiar with this band, I accepted the promo mostly because they were signed to a major label. One thing about certain labels, however, is that some of them aren’t interested in their bands experimenting at all, but just want the same sound delivered over and over again. I’m not sure if this applies to Metal Blade necessarily, but that is exactly what we have here and it is disappointing.
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Týr – Battle Ballads
July 1, 2024
“Battle Ballads” feels like a serious inflection point, especially as they clear the quarter century mark. I trust the band will take a deep breath and recommit to the fray.
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Ingested - The Tide of Death and Fractured Dreams
June 27, 2024
Creative and brutal, this UK-based band releases a bone-crushing full-length!
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Lifesick - Love And Other Lies
May 29, 2024
The band are giving “Love And Other Lies” the honour as being named their debut. And what a debut it is.
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Six Feet Under – Killing For Revenge
May 20, 2024
“Killing For Revenge” is a fast, aggressive, and intense hammering anf one of the Death Metal highlights of 2024 so far
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Job for a Cowboy - Moon Healer
May 1, 2024
The Prog/Death Metal American lords are back after 10 long years, and at full force!
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Dååth – The Deceivers
April 14, 2024
Let’s get one thing straight right off the bat—the band clearly has talent and musicianship, and the songs are tightly composed and excellently produced. What needs work however is the songwriting itself. There is just not enough variation from song to song, and they play it safe too much. 13 years is indeed a long hiatus, and a lot has happened since then. Back then, this might have been a shining example of prowess, but today, it seems to me to be just another mediocre release.
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Midnight - Hellish Expectations
March 4, 2024
Athenar has revealed in an interview that the whole “Hellish Expectations” album was written in a weekend, and it shows. Every song is carrying the same kind of vibe. It is a consistent and evenly paced record.
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Hamferð – Men Guðs hond er sterk
March 1, 2024
I feel that the album is a marriage of music and meaning, with each track's themes aligning with the music itself. The album's lyrical content and musical arrangements work in tandem to convey a cohesive message or narrative. This thematic consistency adds depth and resonance to the music, and it's clear that every aspect of the album was carefully considered to ensure that the themes and music complement each other. I haven’t “felt” another album as deeply this year.
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Gost – Prophecy
February 28, 2024
On the album, the melody creeps through the darkness, each note tinged with a sinister edge. The storm outside mirrored the turmoil within, as the keyboard danced under the musician's fingers. The music told a story of shadows and secrets, drawing the listener into its dark and stormy depths. If this is Satan coming back to move us forward, I say welcome him with a smile.
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North Sea Echoes – Really Good Terrible Things
January 31, 2024
This album is so unassuming but emotionally impactful at the same time, and as I mentioned above, the duo of Alder and Matheos is able to say so much with so little sonority. That is the mark of truly exceptional songwriting.
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Whitechapel - Live in the Valley
January 24, 2024
I have to admit that I am not exactly a fan of Deathcore, but somehow WHITECHAPEL has slipped through my defences and given me a lot to enjoy.
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Omen - Escape to Nowhere (Reissue)
January 24, 2024
OMEN are a typical US Heavy and Power Metal band that comes from Los Angeles. They have had two lives. The first one from 1983 until 1989. In that time they released four studio albums, of which the one I am reviewing today, “Escape To Nowhere”, is the last in line, originally released in 1988.
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200 Stab Wounds – Slave To The Scalpel (re-issue)
January 8, 2024
200 STAB WOUNDS were formed in 2019 and they are from Cleveland, Ohio. The Death […]
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Cirith Ungol – Dark Parade
December 11, 2023
CIRITH UNGOL’s sixth full-length studio album is dark, down, and mean.
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Endseeker – Global Worming
December 10, 2023
ENDSEEKER deliver traditional, Swedish inspired Death Metal with the typical chainsaw guitar sound and a smart mixture of fast, mid-tempo, and slower tracks
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W.E.B. – Into Hell Fire We Burn
December 4, 2023
If “Into Hell Fire We Burn” is a teaser for a new full-length album, then symphonic Black Metal fans have something to look forward to
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