As is often the case with Japanese tracks, izna’s Dumb Hot! was released a few weeks before its music video. Sometimes, that offers the chance for a song to ingratiate itself without visuals setting any concrete expectations, but there’s not enough song within Dumb Hot… Read More »Song Review: izna – Dumb Hot!
TUNEXX made their debut earlier this year… or so I’m told. Gun to head, I couldn’t tell you a thing about that song or the group in general, but that’s why having this blog is such a useful record. It looks like I did not… Read More »Song Review: TUNEXX – Blue Mode
South Carolina blackened death metal veterans Lecherous Nocturne return today with “Metempsychosis,” their first new music since 2018’s Occultaclysmic. Formed in Greenville in 1997, the band have spent nearly three decades operating at the particularly hostile intersection of technical death metal, black metal and outright… Read More »Track Premiere: Lecherous Nocturne – ‘Metempsychosis’
San Francisco deathgrinders Cartilage have never exactly been known for practicing restraint, but on third full-length Operating Altar, the Bay Area gore merchants have found a way to make their particular pathology even more elaborate. Rather than assembling another collection of individual incisions, the band… Read More »Full Album Stream: Cartilage — Operating Altar
Central American cohort Morbid Stench, comprised of musicians spread across El Salvador and Costa Rica, will soon continue the spread of their brand of underground death/doom with the release of third album Doom Metástasis. Featuring the same lineup as when the band started in 2014, Morbid Stench… Read More »Track Premiere: Morbid Stench – ‘Narcissistic God’