"Ihsahn transformed a simple and safe double album idea into an incredible soundtrack full of emotions and darkness!" -Phil 2Vitesses from Whispers From The Void Podcast
They say good things come to those that wait. In the case of the new music from Denver’s death doom champions Spectral Voice, it has been nearly 7 years since their debut full length Eroded Corridors of Unbeing was released upon the masses. Th…
I don’t know who ever thought death metal ever needed to be more brutal than it already was, but that man was a genius and an innovator. Imagine listening to Tomb of the Mutilated in 1991 and thinking “shit, I can go way ha…
It has been a hot minute since I have sat down and pounded out a review for the masses, but a new year brings new music and boy do I have a banger for you all to check out. This band that I will be featuring today is one of the hottest new bands in …
One of the most difficult metal bands to discuss is Full of Hell. The best simile I’ve found to describe them is “a shapeshifting beast.” They don’t have “a sound” to properly speak of. Full of Hell has …
"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…
“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…
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…
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…
It is always a big risk for bands to take chances on their sound early on their careers. Change too much and fans will label you a sellout and if you don’t change enough, people will say everything sounds the same. On the Fort Worth, TX quinte…
It’s hard to approach a new album from a band like Cattle Decapitation, who have become one of the defining bands in contemporary extreme metal. Personally, I found the last album left me a little cold. This is partly because on the previous t…
Crossover has become a hot genre again in the metal world. Bands like Power Trip, High Command, and Spiritworld have rose the ranks in the metal world to become house hold names. Another band who has garnered a lot of love in this genre is Richmond,…
I try to use the formula “album of the year” as little as I can, but sometimes it just applies. We’re still early in 2023, but we’re going to talk about Chained to the Bottom of the Ocean’s new record Obsession Des…