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The inexorable march of New Mexico’s Street Tombs upon the death metal underground has been relentless, with their 2023 debut

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Review: Static Abyss ‘The Dying Hunt’

24th September 202624th September 2026 Matt Alexander Death Metal, Peaceville Records, Static Abyss

Is the world ending getting you down? All those kids listening to their bleep bloop music on the bus, and

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Review: Astriferous ‘Atavistic Unraveling’

12th August 202612th August 2026 Matt Alexander Death Metal, Me Saco Un Ojo Records, Pulverised Records

One of the greatest thrills of being a music lover and collector is discovering a band from a far-flung corner

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Review: Thætas ‘The Irredeemable Age’

3rd August 20263rd August 2026 John McMeiken Death Metal, Profound Lore Records, Thætas

Greetings and Salutations, Johnny Mc here, who some of you might know from talking about music on my YouTube channel,

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Review: Goetia ‘Mortuary Cult’

6th July 20266th July 2026 Tom Hanno Carbonized Records, Death Metal, Goetia

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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