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Review: Ordh ‘Blind In Abyssal Realms’

1st May 20261st May 2026 Matt Alexander Death Metal, Ordh, Pulverised Records

Brattleboro, Vermont, is best known for its Creamery Covered Bridge, which frankly sounds delicious and the Madame Sherri Forest, which

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Review: Cryptworm ‘Infectious Pathological Waste’

30th March 202630th March 2026 Matt Alexander Cryptworm, Death Metal, Extremely Rotten Productions, Me Saco Un Ojo Records

A thin emerald mist seeps out of a pile of pustulant, bloated corpses, all of which have been heavily experimented

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Top Ten Of 2025: Matt Alexander

24th December 202524th December 2025 Matt Alexander Ancient Death, Defacement, Floating, Hooded Menace, Innumerable Forms, Jade, Obsidian Tongue, Species, Suffering Hour, Top Ten 2025, Violator

Bienvenido compadre’s! It’s that time again… the frost has crept in, leaves scatter the paths, and the British begin the

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Review: Morbific ‘Bloom Of The Abnormal Flesh’

7th May 202530th January 2026 Matt Alexander Death Metal, Headsplit Records, Me Saco Un Ojo Records, 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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Premiere: –(16)– ‘Forgeries Vol 1, 1972–1984’ – New Album Drops Tomorrow, 1st May
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