Disevered – Hammers of Blasphemy
The six songs make you feel like you’re in the middle of street fight.
Death Requisite – Second Death
Sarasota, Florida-based Death Requisite offer up a 20+ minute EP of symphonic-blackened death metal that shows a lot of promise for their future.
Oblivion Circle – Oblivion Circle
I was immediately struck by the music. While Oblivion Circle doesn’t play straight-up black metal, they do play black metal with plenty of death metal influences and a ton of atmosphere.
Tomb Mold – The Bottomless Perdition
There was so much gravel in the vocals that I had to empty my shoes at the end of the album.
Sallow Moth – Moss Deceptiva
Moss Deceptiva is a brutally beautiful meditation on the destructiveness of modern society… It is with this weapon of musical destructiveness that we will be cleansed.
Quinta Essentia – Initiates of the Great Work
I always love an album which forces me into some involuntary reaction, especially an album that touches whichever part of my lizard brain causing headbanging. Initiates in the Great Work is just such an album.
Abominant – Napalm Reign
Let me present you with another exhibit in the case of “How to Make Excellent Death Metal.”