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Author: Matt Alexander

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Review: Morbific ‘Bloom Of The Abnormal Flesh’

7th May 20257th May 2025 Matt Alexander Death Metal, Headsplit Records, Me Saco Un Ojo, Memento Mori, Morbific

All life from the mammals to the vegetation rots into the earth, producing a noxious pollutant that infects everything it

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Review: Reekmind ‘Mired In The Reek Of Grief’

14th March 202514th March 2025 Matt Alexander Death Doom, Night Terrors Records, Reekmind

After my last review of some intergalactic tech-death that wooed with its complexity and pristine production, I needed to be

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Review: Celestial Scourge ‘Observers Of The Inevitable’

20th February 202520th February 2025 Matt Alexander Celestial Scourge, Death Metal, Time To Kill Records

I have a tricky relationship with tech death, on one hand, I love all the bands that preceded the genre,

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Top Ten Of 2024: Matt Alexander

26th December 202426th December 2024 Matt Alexander Apparition, Bedsore, Blood Incantation, Civerous, Defacement, Slimelord, Spectral Voice, Top Ten 2024, Ulcerate, Vaticinal Rites, Witch Vomit

Folks! It’s my favourite time of year again, it’s end-of-year lists season and a chance for me to go back

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Review: Rotpit ‘Long Live The Rot’

26th November 202426th November 2024 Matt Alexander Death Metal, Rotpit, War Anthem Records

I have listened and discussed an awful lot of out-there progressive/technical death metal this year and don’t get me wrong,

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Review: Coffin Rot ‘Dreams Of The Disturbed’

25th September 202425th September 2024 Matt Alexander Coffin Rot, Death Metal, Maggot Stomp

Behold! The return of Portland, Oregon’s sordid death metal miscreants Coffin Rot with their sophomore record Dreams Of The Disturbed

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Review: Oxygen Destroyer ‘Guardian Of The Universe’

20th August 202420th August 2024 Matt Alexander Death Metal, Oxygen Destroyer, Redefining Darkness Records, Thrash Metal

‘A living nuclear weapon destined to walk the Earth forever. Indestructible. A victim of the modern nuclear age.’ – Makoto Hayashida

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Review: Intolerance ‘Waking Nightmares Of An Endless Void’

5th August 20245th August 2024 Matt Alexander Death Metal, Godz Ov War, Intolerance, Memento Mori

Zaragoza, Spain’s Intolerance are back with a brand new record Waking Nightmares Of An Endless Void two years after their

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Review: Coffin Curse ‘The Continuous Nothing’

7th May 20247th May 2024 Matt Alexander Coffin Curse, Death Metal, Desert Wastelands Productions, Eat My Records, Memento Mori

Album artwork that includes wraiths, tendrils, a mysterious building covered in a mist of blood and a dripping band logo

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Top Ten Of 2023: Matt Alexander

27th December 202327th December 2023 Matt Alexander Cruciamentum, Disguised Malignance, Dying Remains, Grotesqueries, Horrendous, Majesties, Serpent Corpse, Spirit Possession, Tomb Mold, Top Ten 2023, Ulthar

It’s my favourite time of the year where I get to spend hours trawling back through all the records I’ve

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Review: Feral Forms ‘Premalignant’ EP

22nd December 202322nd December 2023 Matt Alexander Death Metal, Feral Forms, Filth Junkies Records, Grindcore, Night Terrors Records

‘But you can’t hear the lyrics…’ they cry! Well, who the fuck cares when the vocals sound like the Balrog

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Video Premiere: IAN ‘Manuel’ – Debut ‘Come On Everybody, Let’s Do Nothing!’ Drops 17th October
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Video Premiere: IAN ‘Manuel’ – Debut ‘Come On Everybody, Let’s Do Nothing!’ Drops 17th October

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Today marks the premiere of IAN’s new video for their single Manuel, the latest glimpse of their debut album Come

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