Average Rating: 2.96 Rating Variance: 0.49 Objectivity Score: 91% (Very Balanced)
Sort by: Rating | Release Date | Rating Date | Name5.0 classicDeath HumanDissection Storm of the Light's BaneImmortal Sons of Northern Darkness4.5 superbBrand of Sacrifice LifebloodStrap in and hang on tight, cuz this one's gonna rip your head off and sh*t down your throat. Goin' hard in the paint, son!Gaerea Unsettling WhispersPanzerfaust The Suns of Perdition - Chapter IISlowbleed The Blazing Sun, A Fiery DawnGoddamn! The whole album could be a YouTube "Try Not to Headbang Challenge" video. Excellently crafted songs. Brutal drums and riffs for days. Don't sleep on this album!Worm ForevergladeWow. The brutality, riffs, atmosphere, solos and song composition are topnotch. I wish "Subaqueous Funeral" was 10 minutes long. Love that song, but all of the songs are bangers. This is definitely a strong contender for AOTY for me!Yoth Iria As The Flame Withers4.0 excellent200 Stab Wounds Slave to the ScalpelA brutally fun listen that's chock-full of tasty riffs.An Abstract Illusion WoeAvdagata The Faceless OneBrand of Sacrifice God HandCarcass Surgical SteelCattle Decapitation Death AtlasCoffin Rot A Monument To The DeadConvictors Atrocious PerditionCoroner Mental VortexCreeping Death Boundless DomainCult of Lilith MaraThis album really surprised me. From the band name to the slightly cheesy album cover, I wasn't expecting to be entertained with some excellent death metal. There's some very tasty riffs throughout the whole album.Cytotoxin NuklearthMusicianship is really good. The thing holding it back, for me, is the vocals. I wish they were a little more acrobatic. Just a small preference, though.Dark Fortress Spectres from the Old WorldDepravity (AUS) Grand MalevolenceDraconian Under a Godless VeilEnforced At The WallsEnforced Kill GridEoront Gods Have No HomeEvile Hell UnleashedExtinction A.D. Culture of ViolenceThis album hits so f*cking hard! Really surprised that there aren't more reviews.Faceless Burial SpeciationFirelink FirelinkFreedom of Fear CarpathiaGoath III: Shaped By The UnlightGojira L'Enfant SauvageHath All That Was PromisedFirst time I preordered a digital album after hearing only 3 songs. Can't wait to spin the whole thing!Hellripper The Affair of the PoisonsMy only complaint is that the album should be longer! Can't get enough! Hooded Menace The Tritonus BellImmortal Damned In BlackInferi (USA) Of Sunless RealmsIngested Where Only Gods May TreadIngested Stinking Cesspool Of Liquified Human RemnantsKankar Dunkle MillenniaAs a guitarist, I really enjoyed all of the riffage. I was completely entertained the whole album through. Hope this makes it onto the 'New Releases' page, so that more people can discover this excellent album.Kreator Phantom AntichristLeviathan Scar SightedLik Misanthropic BreedSome great Swedish DM that needs to be heard. Go listen, now!Lorna Shore ImmortalMarrasmieli Martaiden mailtaI'm not one for folk black metal, but this isn't like the other stuff I've heard from that genre. The synths, guitars and folk instruments elevate the atmosphere to something awe-inspiring. Because of such strong songwriting, it feels like you've travelled a complete journey by the album's end.Mayhem De Mysteriis Dom SathanasMental Cruelty A Hill to Die UponMephorash Shem Ha MephorashMork KatedralenReally solid album that kept me engaged the whole time. There's just enough twists and gems to make your head bob or prick your ears up. Wasn't expecting to give this a 4.0 going into it.Necrophobic Dawn of the DamnedNoltem Illusions In The WakeOmnivortex Diagrams of ConsciousnessOphidian I DesolatePeriphery Periphery II: This Time It's PersonalSacramentum Far Away from the SunShadow Of Intent ElegySuffering Hour The Cyclic ReckoningSummoning the Lich United in ChaosSunken LivsledeSvalbard When I Die, Will I Get Better?Svartkonst Black Waves Album that flew under my radar and needs to be heard. Had me headbangin' through the whole album.The Drowning The Radiant DarkThe Flight of Sleipnir EventideTo The Grave EpilogueTombs Under Sullen SkiesTrespasser (SWE) ἈΠΟΚΆΛΥΨΙΣTruent Through the Vale of Earthly TormentIf you wish that Gojira made a good album after L'Enfant Sauvage or wish Fit For An Autopsy riffs were more exciting lately, then check out this album.Venom Prison SamsaraVokonis OdysseyWatain The Agony and Ecstasy of WatainXenobiotic Mordrake3.5 great1914 Where Fear and Weapons MeetYeah, they sing about war and throw in some samples, big whoop. The music and composition is standard-fare. Not feeling the hype.200 Stab Wounds Piles of Festering DecompositionAephanemer ProkoptonAfsky Ofte Jeg Drømmer Mig DødAkurion Come Forth to MeAmiensus AbreactionAnaal Nathrakh EndarkenmentAphonic Threnody The Great HatredAshen Horde AntimonyAsphyx NecrocerosAudn Vökudraumsins fangiAzaab Summoning the CataclysmBa'al EllipsismBelphegor The DevilsBewitcher Cursed Be Thy KingdomBlack Royal FirebrideBlack Sites UntrueBlackevil Forever Baptised in Eternal FireBron Pred Dverima NoćiCaliban ZeitgeisterCannibal Corpse Violence UnimaginedCarcass Torn ArteriesCarnation (BE) Where Death LiesProudly flying the OSDM flag. Sounds great and scratches that itch.Carrion Vael Abhorrent ObsessionsCelestial Sanctuary Soul DiminishedCelestial Swarm Gateways to the NecroverseCountless Skies GlowCryptosis Bionic SwarmCrypts of Despair All Light SwallowedDark Funeral We Are the ApocalypseDawn Slaughtersun (Crown of the Triarchy)Dearth To Crown All BefoulmentDecline of the I JohannesDeftones OhmsDevenial Verdict Ash BlindDiabolizer Khalkedonian DeathDormant Ordeal The Grand Scheme of ThingsDysgnostic Scar EchoesEmperor Prometheus: The Discipline of Fire...Exgenesis Solve et CoagulaEximperitus... SahrartuFractal Generator MacrocosmosFrozen Soul Crypt Of IceFuming Mouth Beyond The TombGoregang Neon GravesGrand Harvest Consummatum EstGravesend Methods Of Human DisposalGrima Rotten GardenGutslit CarnalHavukruunu Uinuos Syömein SotaHeadshrinker Callous IndifferenceHell:On Scythian StammHellripper Warlocks Grim and Withered HagsHooded Menace Ossuarium Silhouettes UnhallowedHumanity's Last Breath VäldeHunters Moon The Great PandemoniumIhsahn AfterWould've been a 4.0, but I'm not a fan of the saxophone on this album. Kills the vibe.Imperialist CipherIn Aphelion MoribundInferi (USA) Vile GenesisIngested The Surreption IIInhuman Condition Rat°GodIntervals CircadianIotunn Access All WorldsKrater VenenareKvaen The Great BelowLeper Colony Leper ColonyLik CarnageLiminal Shroud All Virtues AblazeLivlos And Then There Were NoneLorna Shore ...And I Return to NothingnessMalist Karst RelictMalokarpatan Krupinské OhneManbryne Heilsweg: O Udręce Ciała I Tułaczce DuszyMayhem DaemonMiasmata Unlight: Songs of Earth and AtrophyMisotheist For the Glory of Your RedeemerMors Principium Est SevenMy Dying Bride Macabre CabaretNadir (NO) Extinction RitualsNarakah Blast HavenNecroticGoreBeast Human Deviance GaloreThis is one ferocious and relentless album. Brutal death with a little slam thrown in for good measure. If you want a good skull pounding, then look no further than this album.Of Feather and Bone Sulfuric DisintegrationOminous Ruin Amidst Voices that Echo in StoneOrbit Culture NijaOssaert PelgrimsoordOuter Heaven Realms of Eternal DecayOxygen Destroyer Sinister Monstrosities Spawned...Paganizer Beyond The MacabrePanychida Gabreta AeternaPulchra Morte Ex Rosa CeremoniaPupil Slicer MirrorsRot Away Nothing Is GoodSatan Earth InfernalSepiroth Condemned to SufferSepulchral Curse Only Ashes RemainSeth La Morsure du ChristShores of Null Beyond the Shores (On Death and Dying)Skeletal Remains The Entombment of ChaosSoulburn Noa’s D'arkSpectral Wound A Diabolic ThirstSpirit Adrift Enlightened In EternityStormkeep Tales of OthertimeSulphur Aeon The Scythe of Cosmic ChaosThaetas Shrines to AbsurdityThe Absence CoffinizedThe Ruins of Beverast The Thule GrimoiresTheotoxin Fragment : ErhabenheitHis high shrieks have so much snarl to them that you can taste the blasphemy. Mmm.Tishina Uvod...To The Grave Director’s CutsTrivium In the Court of the DragonUnanimated Victory in BloodUndeath Lesions of a Different KindUnflesh InhumationUnto Others StrengthUpon a Burning Body FuryUtter Scorn Paroxysmal EndemiaVelnias Scion of AetherVenom Prison PrimevalVredehammer ViperousWachenfeldt The InterpreterWake ConfluenceWayfarer A Romance with ViolenceWheel (DE) Preserved in TimeWombbath AgmaXenosis Paralleled ExistenceYashira Fail To Be3.0 good...and Oceans Cosmic World Mother...and Oceans As in Gardens, So in TombsAbhoria AbhoriaAbhoria DepthsAenigmatum DeconsecrateAllegaeon DamnumAlluvial SarcomaA few songs are great, but this album lacks cohesiveness. Riffs, passages and interludes feel pieced together instead of having transitions that flow. It's also a bit of a grab-bag. They flirt with other genres, but like the saying goes, "Jack of all trades, master of none."Alustrium A Monument to SilenceAnachronism MeandersAnalepsy QuiescenceMusicianship is great and the production hits hard. However, I developed lactose intolerance from all of the Brie.Apallic Edge of DesolationAshen (AUS) Ritual of AshAtramentus StygianAzarath Saint DesecrationBabirusa HumanoidBaest Necro SapiensBarishi Old SmokeBear Mace Charred Field of SlaughterBizarrekult Vi OverlevdeBlack Hole Deity Lair of XenolichBlack Mass (USA-MA) Feast at the Forbidden TreeBlackbraid Blackbraid IBlaze of Perdition The Harrowing of HeartsBloodsoaked Necrovoid Expelled into the Unknown Depths...Bohemyst Čerň a SmrtBrand of Sacrifice Between Death and DreamsCadaveric Incubator Nightmare NecropolisCan Bardd Devoured by the OakCarnosus Visions of InfinihilityCognitive Malevolent Thoughts of a Hastened ExtinctionCounting Hours The WillCrescent (EGY) Carving the Fires of AkhetCult of Luna The Raging RiverDarkthrone Eternal HailsDe Profundis The Corruption of VirtueDead and Dripping Miasmic Eulogies Predicating an Eternal NocturneDecapitated Cancer CultureAfter a 5 year layoff, I was expecting them to come out guns blazing. What I got were 10 songs that sound like they have little structure to them. Yeah, Vogg has some good riffs, but riffs are not songs. Also, a very homogeneous sound across the album which makes nothing stand out. Another "safe" death metal album.Decembre Noir The Renaissance Of HopeDecipher Arcane Paths of ResurrectionDeeds of Flesh NucleusDemiser Through the Gate EternalDemoniac (CHL) So It GoesDescent Order of ChaosJust an HM-2, knuckle-dragging good time. Keep your expectations low.Desolate Realm Desolate RealmDevoured Elysium Void GraveDiskord DegenerationsDissection ReinkaosDjevel Tanker som rir nattenDkharmakhaoz Proclamation ov the Black SunsDorDeDuh HarDr. Acula Dr. AculaDvne Etemen ÆnkaDystopia A.D. Doomsday PsalmEllende TriebeEllende EllenbogengesellschaftEnragement AtrocitiesEntheos (USA) Time Will Take Us AllEntombed Morning StarEsoctrilihum Eternity Of ShaogFaceless Burial At The Foothills Of DelirationFaithxtractor Contempt for a Failed DimensionFirtan MarterFit for an Autopsy The Sea of Tragic BeastsFornicus Sulphuric OmnipotenceFrozen Dawn The Decline of the Enlightened GodsFustilarian All This Promiscuous DecadenceGaerea MirageGaerea said that this album was written within 1-2 weeks and it shows. The rage and aggression is on full display, I will give them that, but the album feels half-baked. I feel like the ideas and songs could've been fleshed out better or left to marinate longer (keeping with the cooking theme). The album closer "Laude" is a goddamn masterpiece, though.Ghastly (FIN) Mercurial PassagesGodthrymm ReflectionsGorephilia In The Eye Of NothingGrabak ScionHarakiri for the Sky MaereHarlott Detritus of the Final AgeHeads For The Dead Serpent's CurseHideous Divinity LV-426Hulder Godslastering: Hymns of a Forlorn PeasantryIdol of Fear TrespasserImmortal Pure HolocaustImmortal Blizzard BeastsImmortal Diabolical Fullmoon MysticismIn Mourning The Bleeding VeilInfant Annihilator The Battle of YaldabaothInferi (USA) The Path of ApotheosisYeah, uh. A little too fast, ain't it? Math rock! Sure, it's "technically magnificent". I mean, you know where to put your fingers and all.Insomnium Winter's GateIntellect Devourer Demons of the SkullJupiterian ProtosapienKnife KnifeKorpse (NL) Insufferable ViolenceLantern (FIN) DimensionsLive Burial Unending FutilityLo! The GleanersImagine if Randy Blythe joined a sludgy post-metal band. That's what this sounds like. Good, but not great.Lord Almighty WitherLord of Pagathorn Age of CurseLorna Shore Pain RemainsLorna Shore have officially jumped the shark. Song format repeated ad nauseam. Doesn't lend itself to repeated listens.Loviatar LightlessMagoth InvictusMalakhim TheionMalevolence Malicious IntentI got hoodwinked into listening to a Bro-Core album. Malist To Mantle the Rising SunMare Cognitum Solar ParoxysmThe songs are somewhat similar, which leads to the album not being memorable at all. Nothing ever caught my ear or attention. I wasn't transported into a certain mood or listening state (as with other BM albums). Didn't connect with this one. Swing and a miss, for me.Maul Seraphic PunishmentMélancolia HissThroughRottenTeethMembaris MisanthrosophieMemoriam To the EndMisfire Sympathy for the IgnorantMol DioramaMonument of Misanthropy UnterwegerMoon Tooth PhototrophMortiferum Preserved in TormentNails Abandon All LifeNarbeleth Svmma Cvm Nox ArcanaNattverd VandringNawabs of Destruction Rising VengeanceNecropanther BetrayalNecrophagous In Chaos AscendNetherbird AreteNexorum Death UnchainedNightfall At Night We PreyGood, but essentially "paint by the numbers" melodic death metal. Nocturnal Graves An Outlaws StandNon Est Deus LegacyNothingness SupraliminalObscene (USA-IN) ...From Dead Horizon to Dead HorizonOlkoth (USA-SC) At the Eye of ChaosOrganectomy Nail Below NailOur Place of Worship is Silence Disavowed, and Left HopelessOuter Heaven Infinite Psychic DepthsParadise Lost The Plague WithinPharaoh The Powers That BePhlebotomized Pain, Resistance, SufferingPlague (GR) Portraits of MindGoing with an OSDM type sound. It was a decent listen, but didn't bring anything new to the table. Just listen to the 90's stuff and skip this.Praise the Plague The Obsidian GateDoom is not my cup of tea, but if you add in a heaping spoonful of Black Metal it's more palatable.Ragehammer Into Certain DeathRevocation NetherheavenRevulsion (FIN) RevulsionRimfrost Expedition: DarknessRotten Tomb Visions of Dismal FateSanguisugabogg Tortured WholeScalpture FeldwärtsSchizophrenia (BE) Recollections of the InsaneSecond To Sun LeviathanSepultura QuadraSerpent of Old Ensemble Under The Dark SunShadow Of Intent ReclaimerSigns Of The Swarm AbsolvereNot quite ready to play in the big leagues with Shadow of Intent and Lorna Shore.Skelethal Unveiling the ThresholdSlave One Omega DisciplesSodom Genesis XIXSodomisery MazzarothSoreption JordSpawn of Possession CabinetSpire of Lazarus Soaked in the SandsSpirit Possession Spirit PossessionSpiritbox Eternal BlueStillbirth Homo DeusStortregn ImpermanenceStrigoi VisceraStrychnos A Mother's CurseSuffocation Human WasteSulphur Aeon Gateway to the AntisphereSun of the Suns TIITSwallow the Sun MoonflowersSwampbeast Seven Evils Spawned of Seven HeadsTestament Titans of CreationThe Acacia Strain Failure Will FollowThe Breathing Process LabyrinthianThe Crown Royal DestroyerThe Fallen Prophets No End In SightThe Ocean Phanerozoic II: Mesozoic | CenozoicThe Stone KosturniceThundering Hooves VestigesTombstoner Descent to MadnessToxic Holocaust Conjure and CommandTribal Gaze The Nine ChoirsTriumvirate From Beyond the GraveUnfathomable Ruination Decennium RuinaeVacuous Dreams of DysphoriaValdrin Effigy Of NightmaresVarde FedraminneVitriol (USA) Suffer & BecomeEven for extreme metal, these arrangements are way too busy.Wake Thought Form DescentWayward Dawn All-Consuming VoidWerewolves From the Cave to the GraveWharflurch Psychedelic Realms ov HellWhitechapel KinWilderun Veil of ImaginationWindir LikferdWinterlore Eternal DefianceWitches The FatesWode Burn in Many MirrorsThe first two songs were pretty good, which got my hopes up for the rest of the album. However, Wode could never really hit their stride. Riffs were good, but as a whole, the album lost it's cohesiveness. Wolf King Path of WrathWolves in the Throne Room Primordial ArcanaWombbath Tales of MadnessWorm GloomlordWormwitch Wolf HexWraith (USA-IN) Undo The ChainsXenobiotic Hate MonolithYatra All Is Lost2.5 averageAbiotic IkigaiAborted ManiaCultAeviterne The Ailing FacadeAngelMaker SanctumIn one ear and out the other. None of the songs have any real staying power. Also thought that the hardcore "shouty" vocals were a bit overused.Ascian ElysionAt the Gates The Nightmare of BeingBe'lakor CoherenceBeyond Grace Our Kingdom UndoneBizarre (SP) Invocation CodexBlood Red Throne Imperial CongregationToo much "low E" chugging and not enough riff variations. The drums hard carry the guitars. Vocals are standard DM and fit nicely. Overall, the song composition is lackluster.Cabal (DK) Drag Me DownCarcass DespicableCaustic Wound Death PostureConjurer PathosCrust (RUS) StoicCrypt Crawler Future UsurperDark Buddha Rising MathreyataDark Tranquillity MomentDarkened Kingdom Of DecayDarkthrone Astral FortressDecrepisy Emetic CommunionDefy The Curse Horrors Of Human SacrificeDesaster Churches Without SaintsDeviant Process NurtureDeviser Evil Summons EvilDischordia TriptychDrawn and Quartered Congregation PestilenceDrown In Sulphur Dark Secrets of the SoulElephant Watchtower The Church Is At FaultEndseeker Mount CarcassMusic is straightforward with some hooky riffs sprinkled throughout. What ruins it is the Randy Blythe wannabe vocalist. (A watered down version, at that.)ERRA ERRAPeriphery and Meshuggah worship definitely going on. This genre has really lost my interest since 2013. Same formula of cramming polyrhythms and 0-0-000-0-0 open string abuse. Along with all the usual tropes of the genre, I can't help but wonder if this will go the way of Nu-metal. Anyway, I don't know why I bothered with this album. I'll see myself out.Errant ErrantEsogenesi EsogenesiEthereal Shroud TrisagionExpander Neuropunk BoostergangExtreme Cold Winter World ExitEye of Purgatory The LighthouseFeral Season Rotting Body in the Range of LightFor I Am King CrownFragment Soul Axiom Of ChoiceFrigoris ...in StilleGhost Bath Self LoatherGoatwhore Angels Hung from the Arches of HeavenGojira FortitudeGold Spire Gold SpireGorement The Ending QuestHeads For The Dead The Great ConjurationI AM Eternal SteelImmolation Acts of GodI put aside that the name Immolation is on this album, so it wouldn't inflate my rating. Having said that, this album is uninteresting. Everything feels like I've heard it a 1,000 times before. Sure the drumming is phenomenal, but in 2022 most extreme metal bands have this in spades. The riff work is uninspiring and the songwriting is lazy.Incandescence Le Coeur de l'HommeThis was difficult to rate. The album is good...probably great, but the mixing engineer did a great disservice to the level at which I could enjoy listening to this. The low-end from 70Hz and below is uncontrolled and overpowers the mix. When the blast beats or double kicks come in, that's when things get even worse. Almost all clarity of the other instrumentation is lost. If you're listening to this on low-budget speakers that drop off around 70Hz, consider yourself lucky.Inferno (CZ) PARADEIGMA (Phosphenes of Aphotic Eternity)Boring, but a nice album to fall asleep too. At least, that's what it did to me.Ingested Ashes Lie StillIntronaut Fluid Existential InversionsKatalepsy Terra Mortuus EstKinda generic. Just a very basic album that doesn't excite much.Khandra All Occupied by Sole DeathKhemmis Doomed Heavy MetalKilling Addiction Mind of a New GodKonvent Puritan MasochismLie in Ruins Floating in Timeless StreamsLive Burial Curse of the ForlornLvcifyre The Broken SealMassacre ResurgenceMental Cruelty ZwielichtIf they dropped the predictable breakdowns and leaned more into the Black Metal side of things, this album would be much better.Ne Obliviscaris CitadelNecrofier Prophecies of Eternal DarknessNihility Beyond Human ConceptsNinkharsag The Dread March Of Solemn GodsThis is second wave Black Metal worship. They do hardly anything to inject something new or fresh into the standard formula. So, frankly, I'd rather throw on a Dissection album. Nocturnal Hollow A Whisper of an Horrendous SoulOnirik The Fire Cult Beyond EternityOv Sulfur OblivionThe highs in "Lost" are so goddamn laughable that it's hard to take it serious. Nonessential listening unless you're hard up for some deathcore.Patrons Of The Rotting Gate Bathed In AshPeriphery Periphery IV: Hail StanPhinehas The Fire ItselfPhobophilic Enveloping AbsurdityPilori (FRA) Quand Bien Meme l'Enfer et le Deluge S'AbattraientPsycroptic The Scepter of the AncientsRaventale Planetarium IISadistik Forest Obscure Old RemainsSanguisugabogg Homicidal EcstasySecond To Sun Nocturnal PhilosophySelbst Relatos de AngustiaSeven Doors Feast of the Repulsive DeadSigil (CAN) NetherSilent Planet IridescentSoilwork A Whisp of the AtlanticSordide Les idées blanchesSpite Dedication To FleshA slight notch above the average bro-core meathead metal. Do you even lift, bro?Stalker Black Majik TerrorStatic Abyss Labyrinth of VeinsSuidAkrA WolfbiteSwelling Repulsion The Severed PathThe Wakedead Gathering ParallaxiomTheotoxin Fragment: TotenruheThis Ending Needles of RustThyrfing VanagandrTraveler (CAN) Termination ShockTrenches ReckonerVaelmyst Secrypts of the EgochasmVaino MetsänpeittoVerthebral Abysmal DecayVildhjarta Måsstaden Under VattenThe start-stop riffage gets old after the first two songs and really drags down this already long runtime album. Your patience is definitely tested and, sadly, the payoff is underwhelming. I cannot see myself returning to this album for repeat listens.Villagers of Ioannina City Age of AquariusViscera (UK) CarcinogenesisVous Autres Sel de PierreWalg IIIWhore of Bethlehem Ritual of HomicideWitch Vomit Abhorrent RaptureWoman Is The Earth Dust of ForeverWothrosch Odium2.0 poorA Dozen Black Roses Treading Ever So DeeplyAnaal Nathrakh The Whole of the LawAncient Mastery Chapter One: Across The Mountains Of ...Autophagy BacteriophageBednja Doline Su Ostale Iza NasBehemoth Opvs Contra NatvramBetween the Buried and Me Colors IIBTBM have a bad case of musical diarrhea. Grab the Imodium! Bleed from Within ShrineUninspiring, paint-by-numbers metalcore. Don't waste your time. Boss Keloid Family the Smiling ThrushCarnifex Graveside ConfessionsThe album is monotonous, uninspiring and overstays it's welcome.Celestial Season The Secret TeachingsCerebral Rot Excretion Of MortalityI literally fell asleep after the second song. Had to re-listen after I woke up and realized why I fell asleep. This is some boring a** sh*t.Chelsea Grin Suffer In HellIs the saying true that you can have too much of a good thing? Apparently, so. Chelsea Grin throws the kitchen sink at this album from start to finish. All of the Deathcore tropes whizz by your ears in fast succession. The downside is that nothing sticks or becomes memorable. Songwriting has been traded in for how many "sick" tricks can be thrown at the listener. I blame Lorna Shore's "To The Hellfire" for creating waves of bands looking for their TikTok moment or generating hundreds of reaction videos. The future does not look bright.Chrome Waves The Rain Will CleanseDarko (US) DarkoA very generic slab of songs that sink into the ocean of bands in this genre.Empress Wait 'Til NightEnslaved UtgardThis album suffers from a disjointed feeling from one song to the other, janky transitions within the songs and an overall flat performance by the band.Exhumed WormingFather Befouled Crowned in VeneficumFit for an Autopsy Oh What the Future HoldsWill Putney's production skills can't save this album. The songwriting is flat and uninspiring. Joe Badolato's vocals sound strained and one dimensional throughout the entire album.Fleshbore Embers GatheringFluisteraars BloemGatecreeper An Unexpected RealityDisappointing is all I can say. Feels like they rushed out something just for the sake of having new music out. All of the short songs are forgettable and the closer is great, but not enough to drag this EP above a 2.0 rating.Gerogot Heading To EternalGnosis (USA-FL) Omens from the Dead RealmGrave Miasma Abyss of Wrathful DeitiesHyperdontia Hideous EntityImmortal Battles in the NorthImpaled Nazarene Eight Headed SerpentIn Flames ForegoneInfitar InhumanMinistry Moral HygieneMisthyrming AlgleymiMorgue Supplier InevitabilityMork DypetDisappointing. I thoroughly enjoyed their previous album, bought it and listen to it quite often. Dypet is a departure in tonality and style. It's a little more atmospheric and explorative. I have nothing against that style, but Mork doesn't hit the mark as some of the more notable bands already occupying this space. I think that they excel better at aggression and tasty earworm riffs.Neurotic Machinery A Loathsome AberrationNoctambulist The Barren FormNovarupta Carrion MovementsOceans of Slumber Oceans of SlumberI don't get the hype surrounding this album. It drags on way too long. Songs are bland. The emotion sounds forced. Osiah ChronosBoring, paint-by-numbers deathcore that has little to offer the listener.Palus Somni Monarch of Dark MatterPanzerfaust The Suns of Perdition Chapter IIII gave Chapter II a 4.5 and was heavily anticipating this album. Boy, was I disappointed. They shit the bed with too much atmosphere and interludes galore. Hopefully, Chapter IV can be a return to better days.Paranorm EmpyreanThey try to be creative and progressive with their songs, but it just ends up sounding like independent riffs plastered together. The guitar wank-fest also gets annoying (and this is coming from a guitarist).Qrixkuor ZoetropeReplicant Malignant RealityGuy's vocals sound like he's going through puberty.Rivers of Nihil The WorkSallow Moth Stasis CocoonPretty much everything that Ian wrote, I agree with. Sammale SammaleSeputus Phantom IndigoSyning SyningTemple of Void Summoning the SlayerMostly an album of boring songs that drag on for far too long, leaving a stale feeling overall. The Silver (US) Ward of RosesVenom Prison ErebosThe songwriting on this album is a mess and bordering on incoherent. Big step down from their previous album. Hopefully it's not too late to right the ship and the next one will be better.Wachenfeldt Faustian ReawakeningWitchcraft Black MetalWorm BluenothingWhat the heck is this? Their last full-length was excellent. Wormwood ArkivetXoth Interdimensional InvocationsAn assualt on your eardrums in a bad "ice pick" way. One listen was more than enough.1.5 very poorAct of Impalement Infernal OrdinanceCrown Magnetar Everything BleedsI wish that I could give a separate rating for just the drummer because that's the only thing positive about this album. I have a feeling that in the future we're going to look back on this era of Deathcore the same way that we look back at early 2000's Nu Metal.Kauan Ice FleetOh, god. Here we go again with the fake prescription eyeglasses and 100% organic hand- knitted wool beanie in 90 degree weather "metal" that I "just don't get". If I want an album to fall asleep too, I'll throw on some Liquid Mind. But don't dick around with ethereal guitar pedals, synths and hang around P&W chord voicings, and act like this album is the second coming of Jesus Christ.Left to Suffer ON DEATHMammoth WVH Mammoth WVHThe godawful album art matches the cringeworthy lyrics. There's some melody hooks during the album, but the riffs get reused in each song and by the second verse, you've heard enough. Don't waste your time or money on this album.Molested Divinity Unearthing The VoidThe mix is horrible. All you hear is sub-low bass, snare, hi-hat and cymbals and the constant "breeee" of vocals (which is way overused).Mystras Empires Vanquished And DismantledSlow Fall Beneath the Endless RainsSounds like early 2000's "tough guy metal"...and, no, that's not a compliment.Undergang Aldrig i livetIn this day and age, there's no excuse for a terribly mixed album. Also, it's boring as f**k.Vulture (DE) Ghastly Waves & Battered GravesWent in with the right expectations for this record, but even that wasn't enough to save this album from a very poor rating.Witchcryer When Their Gods Come for You1.0 awfulAndrew W.K. God Is PartyingArchspire Bleed the FutureTech Death Rap? Imagine taking a corroded machete to the rapper Twista's throat and that's what Oli Peters sounds like. It gets old, fast, much like the music. Speaking of the musical side of things, here are my biggest qualms about it. The BPM's are pushed to the max and never come down. Everything sounds quantized to hell and back. This album lacks so much melody and emotion, that I can't distinguish one song from the other, which leads to making other Tech Death bands sound like Def Leppard by comparison. As a guitarist for 20+ years, even I was having ear fatigue by the third song. This was a disappointing and almost unlistenable album for me.Blood Incantation Timewave ZeroWhat a load of pretentious drivel, but watch the subservient fanboys flock to praise Blood Incantation's brilliancy.Bulb Moderately Fast, Adequately FuriousFull of Hell Garden of Burning ApparitionsHeathen Empire of the BlindNONE InevitableThe distorted guitars sound like they were recorded straight in without a cabinet or IR. Completely unlistenable garbage and non-stop static. Just because they put some pads and piano notes between the Black Metal doesn't elevate it to something profound. Sound quality aside, the album is guilty of poor songwriting.Paysage d'Hiver Im WaldAbsolute garbage. Nothing positive to say about this album. Serpent Column Endless DetainmentSpider God Black RenditionsTeramaze And the Beauty They PerceiveFlorida Georgia Line singing over some generic, weak ass djent music.The Monolith Deathcult V3 - Vernedering: Connect the Goddamn DotsThy Catafalque VadakUnleash The Archers AbyssThe musicianship and composition is top-notch. However, the vocals are too prominent in the mix. It doesn't help that her vocal timbre sits in a frequency that the ear is sensitive to. She also yells around the same pitch for the entirety of the album. She doesn't display much of a vocal range often, which isn't to say that she doesn't have it. This combination leaves you with a headache, after you've felt like someone has been yelling in your ear for 57 minutes. The male vocals that enter on the song "Carry the Flame" are a relief to the ears. Now, it's time to go take some Tylenol.Ushangvagush MntuVenomous Skeleton Drowning in CirclesProduction quality sucks and so does the song writing.
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