Album Reviews

'Through the Veil of Medieval Prophecies' is the third studio album by the Swedish multi-instrumentalist Swartadauþuz, released under his new project Muvitium on July 18th via Medieval Prophecy Records. Forging a deeper and mystical connection with 90s symphonic and atmospheric black metal, Swartadauþuz made some impressive changes and well-crafted symphonic textures in the third opus. Through artfully crafted themes of mystique paganism, the album demonstrates an appealing styling from the previous albums.
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From the American Connecticut, Shadow Of Intent is building their own universe of brutal riffs, symphonic greatness and dark imagination. They mix their deathcore with symphonic elements and they dream of doing a concert with an actual symphonic orchestra. One of their greatest heroes is the norwegian symphonic black metal band Dimmu Borgir. They released their fifth album called 'Imperium Delirium' which is a sonic nightmare full of cruelty, green flames and musical evolution.
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Finding a good death metal album this year was like trying to find a needle in a haystack. Luckily, the Helsinki-based death metal quartet Malformed sought standards in terms of brutality and old school spirit. The first studio album 'Confinement of Flesh', released on July 25, 2025 via Dark Descent Records, delivers a rotten sense of riffing intensity mixed with retro-styled Finnish death metal aggression.
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Italian black metal entity Tenebrae in Perpetuum metamorphoses into a cold and relentless fiendish style of black metal on the fifth new album titled “Vacuum Coeli”, released via Avantgarde Music on June 20th, 2025. The album features seven blistering tracks and one intro. The album balanced between harsh vocals, icy tremolo-picked riffs, and ear-piercing abrasion. Beyond the numerous black metal bands in the genre today, Tenebrae in Perpetuum continues in the vein of the classic style of underground black metal, with the main member Atratus (all instruments) and Chimsicrin (drums) evoking chilling coldness and leaving the in-depth soundscapes for the listener to delve into the abysmal hell.
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Disembodiment from Canada debuted their EP "Mutated Chaos" in 2021, the musical standard of the four-piece heralded a promising future for this band. Now, four years after their debut they are back with a full-length album “Spiral Crypts,” released via Everlasting Spew Records on July 11, 2025. It was no surprise at all to see what the Quebec maniacs are up to.
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With Blood Incantation's unexpected ascendancy to intergalactic recognition, it has through some unfathomable machinations somehow become cool again to play intricate, ridiculously long compositions within the confines of death metal.
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Slaughter To Prevail’s journey began in 2014 when two musicians from completely different worlds meet. Alex Terrible, forging his monstrous vocals from a bedroom in the cold, Russian city of Yekaterinburg, crossed paths online with guitarist Jack Simmons, who sharpened his craft in a quiet town of Essex, UK. What started as a distant collaboration quickly turned into a brotherhood. And eleven years later this brotherhood has released his 3rd album called 'Grizzly'.
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The ninth studio album “Lord of Two Horns” by the U.S. brutal death metal band Drawn and Quartered delivers an unprecedented level of mastery. The Seattle, Washington quartet has been a force to be reckoned with. Drawn and Quartered identified its style through superb instrumental efficiency, and there is no doubt that the new album reeks of a gloomy atmosphere and hypersonic barbarity.
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As expected, the 10th studio album “Unholy Trinity” of Swedish black metal cult Lord Belial shows no mercy in its combination of hellish aggression with powerful and catchy melodic sections. Despite thirty years of existence, the trio of Micke Backelin (drums), Niclas Pepa Green (guitar), and Thomas Backelin (guitars and vocals) ensures perfect consistency from start to finish. With a length of more than forty-eight minutes, Lord Belial managed to offer a slew of blazing melodies; the listener is led to the gates of hell, where a dreary landscape of roaring snarls forms the backdrop of each track on this grandiose album.
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Now metal’s genetic upmake is known for being quite suitable for crossbreeding, not only within its own subgenres but also with virtually every other strain of music out there. Even so, I was quite intrigued by what the heck flamenco death metal would sound like; because that is exactly what the Franco-Spanish troupe of Impureza deliver: a mixture of classical Latin flamenco music and pretty technical yet still brutal death metal.
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