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Xibalba ‘Tierra Y Libertad’ CD/LP/DD 2015

22nd February 20153rd September 2019 Sandy Williamson 2015, CD, Death Metal, Digital, Hardcore, LP, Review, Sandy Williamson, Southern Lord, Tierra Y Libertad, Xibalba

Xibalba are a death metal/hardcore band from Pomona, California and Tierra Y Libertad is their third album. Signed to Southern

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Winds Of Genocide ‘Usurping The Throne Of Disease’ CD/DD 2015

8th February 20153rd September 2019 Sandy Williamson 2015, CD, Crust, D-Beat, Death Metal, Digital, Pulverised Records, Review, Sandy Williamson, Usurping The Throne Of Disease, Winds Of Genocide

Winds Of Genocide detonated upon my consciousness for the first time with their 2010 release, The Arrival Of Apokalyptic Armageddon.

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Ævangelist ‘Writhes In The Murk’ CD/LP/DD 2014

1st December 20143rd September 2019 Paul Robertson 2014, Ævangelist, Atmospheric, Black Metal, CD, Death Metal, Debemur Morti Productions, Digital, Experimental, LP, Paul Robertson, Review, Writhes In The Murk

Ne’er has an album title been quite so apt, as the industrial-flecked black death metal of Ævangelist writhes, twists and

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Obituary ‘Inked In Blood’ CD/LP/DD 2014

15th October 20143rd September 2019 Sandy Williamson 2014, CD, Death Metal, Digital, Inked In Blood, LP, Obituary, Relapse Records, Review, Sandy Williamson

Full disclosure: the first time I ever heard Obituary, I fucking hated it. I did, I admit it. A mate

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Oraculum ‘Sorcery Of The Damned’ CD/DD 2014

12th October 20143rd September 2019 Jamie Grimes 2014, Black Metal, CD, Death Metal, Digital, Invictus Productions, Jamie Grimes, Oraculum, Sorcery Of The Damned, Thrash Metal

I believe it was top 20th century philosopher Shane Embury who once famously posited that there was, at one time,

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Take Over And Destroy ‘Vacant Face’ CD/DD 2014

19th September 20142nd September 2019 Mark Hunt-Bryden 2014, Black Metal, CD, Death Metal, Digital, Doom, Mark Hunt-Bryden, Psychedelic, Punk, Review, Self Released, T.O.A.D., Take Over And Destroy, Theatrical, Vacant Face

Under the initialism of T.O.A.D. several demented folks from Tempe, Arizona unleashed an EP called Rotten Tide in 2011, where

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Swallowed ‘Lunarterial’ CD/LP/DD 2014

17th September 20143rd September 2019 Kevin Kentie 2014, CD, Dark Descent Records, Death Metal, Digital, Doom, Heavy, Kevin Kentie, LP, Lunarterial, Review, Swallowed

A while ago I heard the EP of Finnish Swallowed and they immediately drew me into their web of slow

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Nightfell ‘The Living Ever Mourn’ CD/LP/DD 2014

24th June 20142nd September 2019 Will Beattie 2014, Black Metal, CD, Death Metal, Digital, Doom, Hardcore, LP, Nightfell, Parasitic Records, Review, Southern Lord, The Living Ever Mourn, Will Beattie

As soon as ‘The Last Disease‘s’ first growling chord is played, its powerful enough to tear through the fabric of

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God Macabre ‘The Winterlong’ CD/LP/DD Reissue 2014

23rd June 20143rd September 2019 Jeremy Moore 2014, CD, Death Doom, Death Metal, Digital, God Macabre, Jeremy Moore, LP, Reissue, Relapse Records, Review, The Winterlong

The year was 1993; a time when Sunlight Studios, Tomas Skogsberg, and Boss HM-2 pedals were household names and not

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Autopsy ‘Tourniquets, Hacksaws And Graves’ CD/LP/DD 2014

27th May 20143rd September 2019 Paul Robertson 2014, Autopsy, CD, Death Doom, Death Metal, Digital, LP, Paul Robertson, Peaceville Records, Review, Tourniquets Hacksaws And Graves

Coffin lids creak open, the sounds of moaning and scrabbling nails against rotten wood intensify and the stench of the

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Wagars ‘Sidrabenes Lāsts’ DD 2014

4th May 20142nd September 2019 Guido Segers 2014, Black Metal, Crust, Dark, Death Metal, Digital, Guido Segers, Review, Self Released, Sidrabenes Lāsts, Wagars

“We all are black metal trolls at some level. Dark and grim.” Something the band Wagars expressed in an interview,

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