Over the course of 15 years and seven albums, Norway’s Beaten to Death have been rewriting the rules of grindcore. Whether it’s through an almost clean and mostly distortionless guitar tone, their shattering of scene tropes or a career-long refusal to put limits on their… Read More »Track Premiere: Grindcore Nutbars Beaten to Death Test Tolerance with “The Tolerator”
There’s playing old-school death/thrash, and then there’s apparently deciding that heavy metal history effectively reached its ideal evolutionary state sometime between 1988 and 1992. Raleigh, North Carolina trio Deceptor proudly fall into the latter camp. Their debut full-length, Reign of Terror, arrives August 21 through… Read More »Album Premiere: Deceptor – Reign of Terror
A going concern since 2008, Portland, ME prog-tech death metal trio Shabti are blessing us with album number three, Haze, Cacophony, and White Light, their first effort since 2019’s Trembling and Shorn. The lack of regular output is understandable for this threesome—Brendan Hayter (bass), Rob Cook… Read More »Full Album Stream: Shabti –Haze, Cacophony, and White Light
There are a number of acts who have debuted in the past few decades and have dozens of song ratings on this blog. I thought it would be fun to lay these ratings out in chronological order, line-graph style, and take a macro view of… Read More »NCT WISH: A Career In Song Ratings
Kiss Of Life returned earlier this month with the latest in a long line of bare-bones summer tracks, capturing the sweltering nature of the season but refusing to do much as an actual song. However, this group often releases special videos for their b-sides and… Read More »Song Review: Kiss Of Life – WHAT!