Reviews Posts

"Brutal AF with a lot of soul and disgusting repugnancy. One of the best slam album of the year!" - Whispers From The Void Podcast

Italian metal is different.   I don’t know how else to explain it, but whatever is going on over there isn’t happening anywhere else in the world. It’s not better or worse. Italian metal just has different aesthetic concerns…

The first name that comes to anyone’s mind when discussing old school death metal is undoubtedly Cannibal Corpse. Others will think of Death, Morbid Angel, Suffocation, Cryptopsy (duh!), Incantation, the scene in the early nineties featured so…

Cosmic Eye Brewing's "STAGE DIVING GRANDMA" is a 3.8% Sour Berliner Weiss. "STAGE DIVING GRANDMA" is dedicated to Dave Witte's mother who last year during a Municipal Waste show jumped into the pit. "STAGE DIVING GRANDMA" was brewed as a part of M…

My first taste of Harm’s Way came at Heavy MTL 2019. They had the shitty task of going first on Saturday at 1:30 PM under scalding hot July weather. I had no idea what to expect then and walked on their set because I had nothing else to do…

I am usually not a compromise kind of guy.    If I’m in the mood for death metal, I’m going to play Cattle Decapitation, 200 Stab Wounds or something like that. If I want to listen to doom metal, I’ll go balls out for C…

It has been quite some time since Montreal’s Cryptopsy has offered up a new full-length album to the masses. Since 2012’s self-titled album, Cryptopsy has released only two EP’s: The Book of Suffering – Tome I and II in 2015 …

Lo! are a band that don’t easily lend themselves to being categorised, and if I refer to other bands in this review it’s only as points of reference, because Lo! very much have a style all of their own. There’s always a risk in com…

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…

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…