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Death metal is my genre of choice of late, with Chuck Schuldiner’s Death being the main band in my playlist,

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Review: Desiccation ‘Legatum Mortuorum’

19th June 202619th June 2026 Matt Alexander Black Metal, Carbonized Records, Death Metal, Desiccation

Sometimes I want a record to truly consume me; it needs to draw me in, hook, line and sinker, into

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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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Review: Invictus ‘Nocturnal Visions’

30th January 202630th January 2026 Sandy Williamson Death Metal, Invictus, Me Saco Un Ojo Records, Memento Mori

In case you hadn’t noticed, the world of death metal is probably at its strongest place since the early 2010s,

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Review: Vulture God ‘No Easy Answer’ EP

31st December 202531st December 2025 Mark Hunt-Bryden Death Metal, Heavy Metal, Independent, Vulture God

In my long journey to end up as the old dog of The Sleeping Shaman writing staff, one thing has

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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: 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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Review: Spesimin ‘Spesimin’

30th January 202530th January 2025 Matthew Williams Death Metal, Spesimin, Strange Mono Records, Thrash Metal

If you enjoy music that doesn’t let up from start to finish, then this self-titled discography from Philadelphia’s Spesimin is

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Review: Mutagenic Host ‘The Diseased Machine’

13th January 202513th January 2025 Matthew Williams Death Metal, Dry Cough Records, Gurgling Gore, Memento Mori

I used to salivate at the thought of listening to any new death metal album but as I’ve aged and

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Review: Mammoth Grinder ‘Undying Spectral Resonance’ EP

20th December 202420th December 2024 Sandy Williamson Death Metal, Mammoth Grinder, Relapse Records

If there was ever a band that you knew was going to be heavy as fuck just on the name

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