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Late in 2021, I stumbled across an EP from a solo artist under the name Nekrotisk. I was totally floored by the sheer ferocity of the music that I immediately went and snagged a copy on Bandcamp and added the tunes to the Brewtal Awakenings playlist…

Radical Way Brewing's "STAGE INVASION" is a 4.9% ABV Session Hazy IPA. With the metal festival season in full swing, this one is designed to get you through the most brutal of pits!! Azacca, Mosaic, Amarillo and Cashmere hops give this belter a full…

You may not have heard of the one-person Belgian death-doom project Gateway before - and to be honest neither had I until a couple of months ago when a pre-order notification from Transcending Obscurity records arrived in my Bandcamp messages folder…

“Fuuuuck, this guy is really fucking good. This bodes well for tonight, ” I said to my review crew colleague Phil, a song and a half into the four bands line-up that would lead to Cattle Decapitation and Dark Funeral at Club Soda, last m…

Atoms Brewing's "WE CAME AS ITALIANS" is a 4.5% Pale Ale. Time to join the mosh pit... Italian style!  We are proud to be the only Italian brewery to join the crowd, spreading metal culture throughout Italy.  Get some pizza and spaghetti …

Tamás Kátai, the mastermind behind avant-garde metal act Thy Catafalque, has done it again. Alfӧld is his eleventh full-length under the Thy Catafalque banner and the follow up to 2021’s Vadak. Alfӧld to me is a bit more dial bac…

Although they’re legends, Godflesh isn’t a band for metal purists. Unapologetically industrial and chaotic, the Birmingham duo of Justin K. Broadrick and Ben Green have been delivering skull-crushing, but fearlessly experimental music fo…

Dry & Bitter Brewing Company's "SPIN KICKS" is a 6.2%  IPA that was brewed with Mosaic, Citra and Simcoe Hops.  It is a killer brew with resinous tropical aromas and refreshing body. Emulating Chun-Li in the midst of a mosh pit. You m…

Immortal aren’t just one of the most popular black metal bands of all time, they’re also iconic. When people who don’t care about black metal hear the words “black metal”, they think about Immortal because of Guita…

After a lengthy hiatus, Australian depressive black metal legends Austere are back with their first album since 2009’s To Lay Like Old Ashes. The two-piece band consists of Desolate (Mitchell Keepin) on guitar/bass and Sorrow (Tim Yatras) on d…