“Plague Of Cancers” pummels with buzz-saw guitar tone and groove-laden riffs, its HM-2 chainsaw buzz the core of its attack. It may tread familiar terrain, but when it hits right it still smacks like death metal born to be unleashed.
“To Conquer Eternal Damnation” is the sound of melodic death metal clawing its way out of the grave with conviction rather than nostalgia. It’s the kind of album that feels cut from the same cloth as mid-90s Gothenburg, but scoured with modern production grit and a distinctly Bay Area sense of weight.
“Defiance” is a hammer blow wrapped in poetry, part chainsaw-death, part atmospheric lament, testifying that Nightbearer are more than just worshippers of old Swedish death—they are its sharper, angrier evolution. The album stumbles just a few times in pacing and mix, but even those stumbles are over terrains of riffs and ideas worth stumbling over.
Obstruktion’s second full-length shreds complacency: nine tracks packed with riffs that scrape and bite, breakdowns that collapse the air, and uncanny atmosphere that lingers long after the storm has passed. “The End Takes Form” erupts as a roar of metallic hardcore tempered with death metal’s …
Finnish metal veterans Omnium Gahterum will release “May The Bridges We Burn Light The Way” on November 7th via Century Media. “Walking Ghost Phase” has been released now:
“Catechesis” is an interesting and occasionally powerful expression of blackened death metal, but it is uneven, overlong in parts, and its ambition sometimes obscures rather than illumines. Fans of complex death metal may find value in its highs, but its lows remind that potential doesn’t always equal execution.
Paradise Lost, stalwarts of gothic doom, return with “Ascension”, an album that leans into atmosphere and shadow more than revelation. It may not redefine their legacy, but it reaffirms their place as enduring architects of sorrowful heaviness.
Formless Ruin of Oblivion is an ambitious sprawl of black, death, and noise that too often collapses under its own density. There are flashes of brilliance amid the chaos, but they are buried in drift and repetition, leaving the record more exhausting than transcendent.
Runemagick will release their new studio album “Cycle of the Dying Sun (Dawn of Ashen Realms)”, on 31st October via Hammerheart Records. The band unveiled “Wyrd Unwoven” to give an impression of the record.
Th Kingdom Burn balance sorrow and grandeur with polished melodic death metal craft, but repetition and restraint keep their new record from igniting fully.