Rage and Frustration

Entrapment – Through Realms Unseen

It has that crusty, old death metal, mean sound.

Face Down Hero – False Evidence Appearing Real

Groovy riffs and hooks and a barrage of drum lines force you to head bang, along with plenty of solos to melt your face as well.

Loincloth – Psalm of the Morbid Whore

…one imagines guitar players, bass players, and drummers learning the complex passages almost as exercises in technique.

Tornado Kid – Hateful 10

Really good grooves and chunky bass and guitar riffs. Just genuinely a fun album.

Bad Karma – Death Has No Calling Card

With this album you’ll get all three of those demos and their cover of Alice Cooper’s “Billion Dollar Babies”.

Squalus – The Great Fish…

Put on your warm sweater. Climb into the fishing boat. Hope you don’t meet the menace.

Purtenance – Paradox of Existence

Purtenance provide a clinic on meat and potatoes death metal.

Occasvs – Nocturnal Majestic Mysteria

Occasvs rises from the abyss to drag you back down with them.

Oraculum – Always Higher

While this release has solid production and decent songs, there is not much here that stands out from the crowd.

Exhumed – Death Revenge

The band delivered on every level that I had expected and seemed to have matured with time.

Necrophile – Awakening Those Oppressed

Japan’s Necrophile are what I would call Mosh Pit Enablers (yes there is a support group out there if you suffer from Mosh Pit Syndrome).

Nekrohowl – Epitome of Morbid

Vicious, yes I’ve used the word before, is the only way I can describe the battering of the senses you are about to receive.

Rekoma – Eadem Errata

…a moment of this album scared the piss out of a thirteen year old girl.

Overdose Support – Try Dying

The songs are catchy, heavy, and one cannot help but get energized by them.

Graveslave – Sick/Nasty

How does it sound though? The only answer is like Death Metal.

Horrified – Allure of the Fallen

… if you listen closely enough you can almost feel the rich tapestry of myth and legend that surely surrounds them seeping into you slowly,

Arallu – Six

Arallu brings a unique Middle Eastern twist to the standard black metal fare.

Jupiterian – Terraforming

If Minsk and Portal had a baby in a swamp that was then raised on a desert in outer space, “Terraforming” would be it in sonic presentation.

Daydream XI – The Circus of the Tattered and Torn

Untempered heaviness meets beauty and melody at every turn.

Kaipa – Children of the Sounds

This is truly classic prog at its finest, without a mistake or bad direction, either musically or lyrically.

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