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Author: Matt Alexander

Hanging Fortress 'Darkness Devours'
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Review: Hanging Fortress ‘Darkness Devours’

4th November 20203rd December 2020 Matt Alexander Darkness Devours, Death Doom, Hanging Fortress, Redefining Darkness Records

With the myriad of incredible music coming out this year, you’d be forgiven for struggling to keep up with it

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Disrupted ‘Pure Death’
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Review: Disrupted ‘Pure Death’

23rd October 202025th November 2020 Matt Alexander De:Nihil Records, Death Metal, Disrupted, Memento Mori, Pure Death

The past few years have spewed out a plethora of throwback death metal acts whom mostly either take the American

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Carnal Ruin ‘The Damned Lie Rotting’ EP
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Review: Carnal Ruin ‘The Damned Lie Rotting’ EP

20th October 202023rd November 2020 Matt Alexander Carnal Ruin, Death Metal, Redefining Darkness Records, The Damned Lie Rotting

The Damned Lie Rotting – the being has barely breached the surface of the world and struck a thin glimmer

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Gorephilia ‘In The Eye Of Nothing’
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Review: Gorephilia ‘In The Eye Of Nothing’

2nd October 20203rd November 2020 Matt Alexander Dark Descent Records, Death Metal, Gorephilia, In The Eye Of Nothing, Me Saco Un Ojo Records

Oh man! Finland has such a rich history of producing some of the finest death metal that the entire world

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Cross Bringer ‘The Signs Of Spiritual Delusion’
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Review: Cross Bringer ‘The Signs Of Spiritual Delusion’

15th September 202026th October 2020 Matt Alexander Consouling Sounds, Cross Bringer, The Signs of Spiritual Delusion

Sometimes I read a PR release for a record and just know…I’ve got to check this out. First things off

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Steffen - Lycanthropic Chants
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Lycanthropic Chants – Interview With Steffen Brandes

11th September 202012th October 2020 Matt Alexander Death Metal, Lycanthropic Chants, Steffen Brandes

Some of the things I love about Germany, the beer, the food and the sheer abundance of killer death metal!

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Persekutor ‘Permanent Winter’
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Review: Persekutor ‘Permanent Winter’

2nd September 20201st October 2020 Matt Alexander Black Metal, Death Metal, Permanent Winter, Persekutor, Svart Records, Thrash Metal

It’s British summertime as I write this and it’s really muggy down here in the south. I’m fat, sweaty and

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Intoxicated ‘Walled’ EP
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Review: Intoxicated ‘Walled’ EP

28th August 202028th September 2020 Matt Alexander Death Metal, Intoxicated, Seeing Red Records, Walled

Sometimes you come across a story in metal that’s so interesting you just can’t believe you’ve never heard it, especially

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Burial Fog ‘Burial Fog’ EP
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Review: Burial Fog ‘Burial Fog’ EP

18th August 202016th September 2020 Matt Alexander Burial Fog, Death Doom, Independent, Self Titled

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania is home to the obnoxiously heavy Philadelphia Cheese-Steak. It’s also home to something else that is obnoxiously heavy

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Primitive Man ‘Immersion’
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Review: Primitive Man ‘Immersion’

13th August 202016th September 2020 Matt Alexander Doom, Immersion, Primitive Man, Relapse Records, Sludge

Bleak, merciless, cruel and monstrously fucking heavy are just a few ways of describing the sound of who I have

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Bear Mace ‘Charred Field Of Slaughter’
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Review: Bear Mace ‘Charred Field Of Slaughter’

10th August 202014th September 2020 Matt Alexander Bear Mace, Charred Field Of Slaughter, Death Metal, Independent

Thanks to Dwight K. Schrute, I know that bears do not like beets and that bears are not as good

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