UNSPEAKABLE AXE

Three years after it was launched, a second volume has arrived in the 4 Doors To Death split series. This time, four new bands have been brought aboard for an even wilder and more diverse death metal...

Swiss thrashers Algebra have become one of the most reliable machines in metaldom over the course of their fourteen years of existence. Like the famous Swiss watches, their music is clockwork-precise...

Swiss thrashers Algebra have flown under the radar a bit compared to some in the retro-thrash pack, but perhaps that's for the best. What they have done on their two prior full-lengths, and continue...

Besieged might be the most perfectly named band in metal, except for the slight implication that the band themselves are the ones being besieged. Anyone who has listened to their long-ago debut...

Cemetery Filth are no newcomers to death metal, even though their debut album is just arriving in 2020. They released an EP in 2014, contributed to the first 4 Doors To Death volume in 2016, and...

Draghkar At The Crossroads Of Infinity CD

Since their formation in 2010, Hellish have become a prolific force on the blackened thrash scene. With a discography to date totaling two albums, three EPs, four demos, a couple compilations, a...

Bay Area death / thrashers Hemotoxin are back! Their first full-length in three years finds the band pushing further in every direction-more melodic and undeniably catchy on songs like "Automation,"...

It has been a long, torturous road for the veterans of Atlanta death metal band Malformity. Formed initially in 1991, when their own genre was still in it's infancy, they created only a handful of...

One of the few relatively unmined veins of extreme metal, technical death / thrash-the style pioneered by the likes of Atheist and Sadus-is a demanding art, for both the band and the listener...

For a certain type of metal purist, extremity is defined not by blast beats and bowel-bothering growls, but by how fast a band can sand one's face off with a riff that is both instantly memorable,...

Sometimes one doesn't need a detailed description of a band to know what they sound like. Sometimes a wall of fancy PR hype is just an obstacle, a bunch of wasted words. When a band calls themselves...