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Death Metal

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Serpentine Path – S/T – CD/LP/DD 2012

11th September 20123rd September 2019 Saúl Do Caixão 2012, CD, Dark, Death Metal, Digital, Doom, Heavy, LP, Relapse Records, Review, Saúl Do Caixão, Self Titled, Serpentine Path, Tim Bagshaw, Unearthly Trance

For all the moaning you encounter from people young and old, there’s actually a hell of a lot of good

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Album & EP Reviews X 

Xibalba ‘Hasta La Muerte’ CD/LP 2012

29th August 20123rd September 2019 Adam Stone 2012, Adam Stone, Brutal, CD, Death Metal, Hardcore, Hasta La Muerte, LP, Review, Southern Lord, Xibalba

The adjective ‘brutal’, like many others (such as ‘monolithic’ and ‘crushing’), has been bandied around far too much for its

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Coffins ‘March Of Despair’ 12”/CDEP 2012

24th August 20123rd September 2019 Saúl Do Caixão 12", 2012, CDEP, Coffins, Death Doom, Death Metal, Doom, Hammerheart Records, March Of Despair, Review, Saúl Do Caixão

“March of Despair” is Japanese death-doom stalwarts Coffins 57 millionth release. Or at least it feels like it. Hell, there

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Acephalix ‘Deathless Master’ CD 2012

15th August 20123rd September 2019 Todd Robinson 2012, Acephalix, CD, Crust, D-Beat, Death Metal, Deathless Master, Review, Southern Lord, Todd Robinson

Hailing from San Francisco, Acephalix deliver their sophomore album for the ever prolific Southern Lord Records. Touting crust ridden, brutal

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Mantas ‘Death By Metal’ CD/LP/Digital 2012

11th July 20123rd September 2019 Alex Varley 2012, Alex Varley, CD, Chuck Schuldiner, Death, Death By Metal, Death Metal, Digital, LP, Mantas, Metal, Relapse Records, Review, Thrash Metal

Chuck Schuldiner is one of the greatest metal musicians of all time. This isn’t opinion, it’s fact and Relapse Records

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Enabler ‘All Hail The Void’ CD 2012

23rd June 20123rd September 2019 Andrew Sloan 2012, All Hail The Void, Andrew Sloan, CD, Crossover, Death Metal, Enabler, Hardcore, Review, Southern Lord, Thrash Metal

The slow acoustic strum of a simple chord progression plays through a handful of times as delay echoes in the

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Inverloch ‘Dusk…Subside’ CD/LP/Digital 2012

17th June 20123rd September 2019 Paul Robertson 2012, Atmospheric, CD, d.USK, Death Metal, Digital, diSEMBOWELMENT, Dusk...Subside, Funeral Doom, Grindcore, Inverloch, LP, Paul Robertson, Relapse Records, Review, Sludge

Proto-Funeral Doom/Drone grinders diSEMBOWELMENT were, in many ways, the definition of ‘kvlt’, having played zero live shows, recorded one EP,

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Death ‘Vivus!’ CD 2012

21st January 20123rd September 2019 James Parker 2012, CD, Chuck Schuldiner, Death, Death Metal, James Parker, Live, Relapse Records, Review, Tech Death, Vivus!

I sometimes wonder regarding bands that are sadly no more, but clearly were at the absolute pinnacle of their particular

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Serpentine Path ‘Erebus/Depravity’ 7″ 2011

7th November 20113rd September 2019 Saúl Do Caixão 2011, 7", Death Metal, Doom, Erebus/Depravity, Heavy, Parasitic Records, Ramesses, Review, Saúl Do Caixão, Serpentine Path, Unearthly Trance

When you hear of a new band that unites Unearthly Trance with Tim Bagshaw of Electric Wizard and Ramesses fame,

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The Dead ‘Ritual Executions’ CD 2010

8th August 20103rd September 2019 Paul Robertson 2010, CD, Death Metal, Diabolical Conquest Records, Doom, Paul Robertson, Review, Ritual Executions, Stoner Death, The Dead

Australia seems to have been producing some very original Death Metal bands over the last few years, and The Dead

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Obliteration ‘Nekropsalms’ CD 2009

15th December 20093rd September 2019 Paul Robertson 2009, Brutal, CD, Death Metal, Fysisk Format, Heavy, Nekropsalms, Obliteration, Paul Robertson, Review

Old-school Death Metal of the highest order here from Norwegian maniacs Obliteration. This is Death Metal from back in the

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