Album Reviews

The atmospheric and melancholic themes of Drudkh offers a long journey into the golden autumnal woodlands of giant trees, aspiring to capture the majestic steadfast in its supremacy. The thirteenth studio album “Shadow Play” is steeped into pagan black metal which resembles the band’s early outputs like “Autumn Aurora” and the harsher aggressive style of Hate Forest.
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Fourteenth opus “The Screaming of the Valkyries” by British extreme symphonic blackened gothic sextet Cradle of Filth will thrill the fans with their empowering performances. Once again, Cradle of Filth weaves a fantastic quality with the defined and refined aesthetics of the nocturnal symphonic presentation and the melodic-driven riffs. What carries the album into kinetic energy is the profound vocalization of Dani Filth, the dueling guitar melodies of Marek “Ashok” Smerda and Donny Burbage, and the flawless drumming of Martin “Marthus” Skaroupka, with the bass guitar of Daniel Firth and the latest addition of keyboardist and vocalist Zoe Federoff.
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Killswitch Engage has been constructing their musical path for 25 years and what better way to celebrate this with their 8th album called 'This Consequence'. 'This Consequence' has everything that a Killswitch Engage album needs, and it's an album that just breathes Killswitch Engage. So let's take a look at this celebrating album.
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Hailing from the UK, Vacuous offers a refreshing style on their sophomore release “In His Blood”. The band released its debut album “Dreams of Dysphoria” under Me Saco un Ojo three years ago and has signed a worldwide deal with Relapse Records. Beyond contemporary death metal bands, Vacuous offers a mixture of punk death and hints of black metal. Just as lethal and nasty as the underground bands within the death metal scene, they rarely follow any traditional approach.
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Mr. Dave Rotten always knows how to up his game in death metal. After all, the veteran has been around in the scene since 1991. Now almost a decade since the in 2016 released "Deathgeneration", Avulsed delivers their eighth studio album “Phoenix Cryptobiosis” released through Xtreem Music on March 4th, 2025.
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Since the dawn of the 1990s, Denmark’s Maceration established a reputation for itself as one of the first death metal bands to hail from Scandinavia. Maceration endured decades of fame in the European death metal scene, the band was formed by Jakob Schultz (guitars) the main composer and the only original member, the band released its debut album “A Serenade of Agony” in 1992 and featured the renowned Swedish songwriter and producer Dan Swanö (Nightingale, and Witherscape) as a guest vocalist.
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For three decades, Swedish death metal band Wombbath established its legacy in the underground death metal scene in the early 1990s. Formed by the guitarist and original member Håkan Stuvermark, although the debut album “Internal Caustic Torments” is deemed as cult classic and however, after all these years Wombbath never veered off of its classic sound.
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U.S. blackened heavy metal outfit NITE hits back with the third studio album “Cult of the Serpent Sun” out via Season of Mist on March 14th, 2025. NITE goes balls to walls with their fiery riffs and this is probably one of the attributes of the band in combining the fiery heavy metal riffs with blackened style vocals.
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Ván Records presents the third studio album “Fentanyl” from German blackened death/doom entity Morast. The dark theme of their music showcases subtle industrial elements and evil atmosphere due to the guitar arrangements and the stifling environment that the album conjures.
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Phil H. Anselmo and co. unleashes a hellish onslaught with the band’s first full-length album “Gold” out via Nuclear Blast Records on February 21st, 2025. The album includes thirteen blistering songs, with emerging aspects of death, grind, and black metal manifesting throughout the album’s duration. The super group comprises Philip H. Anselmo on vocals, Derek Engemann on guitar and backing vocals, and John Jarvis on bass guitar and backing vocals, Mark Kloeppel handling the guitar and backing vocals, and Adam Jarvis on drums.
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