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Barren Path – Grieving(2025)
Gridlink, one of grindcore’s most revered bands, may be gone, but its legacy lives on through the former members, everyone except vocalist Jon Chang. Barren Path’s debut, Grieving, is not…
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Gridlink – Perfect Amber (2025)
With Coronet Juniper, Gridlink appeared to close their career on an immaculate swansong, an album that functioned as both a farewell from the band and a definitive statement within grindcore…
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Funeral Storm / Celestial Rite – Funeral Rite (2017)
This lavishly designed split 12” EP represents both the promises and failings adherent to the contemporary resurrection of the so-called Hellenic Black Metal style. For the record, I have a…
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Retromorphosis – Psalmus Mortis (2025)
Formed from the ashes of Spawn of Possession, Retromorphosis reunites the Incurso-era lineup. But while Incurso was a relentless push toward hyper-technical extremity, Psalmus Mortis marks a return to their…
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Castrator – Coronation of the Grotesque (2025)
Castrator’s claim to fame has long been their status as an all-woman band with lyrics that invert the sexualized misogyny typical of brutal death metal. However, their 2015 EP No…
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Necromaniac – Sciomancy, Malediction & Rites Abominable (2025)
Having existed for a decade, Necromaniac has been a band of patience and precision, carefully honing their craft before unveiling their debut full-length. Prior to this, they had only released…
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Defeated Sanity – Chronicles of Lunacy (2024)
Defeated Sanity continues to defy expectations within the death metal scene. With their 30th anniversary on the horizon, the band shows no signs of slowing down, and their seventh album,…
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Ulcerate – Cutting the Throat of God (2024)
Continuing the project laid out in the previous few albums, New Zealand’s Ulcerate endeavor to concoct a blend of post-metal in the style of Isis with the dissonant death metal…
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Death Metal from Hellas – Part III: Nightfall – Parade into Centuries (1992)
(suggested track listening: ”Domestication of Wildness”, ”Immaculate / Enslaved by Need”) Nightfall’s debut album Parade into Centuries (1992) was, in many ways, a landmark release. It was arguably the earliest full-length album…
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Iced Earth – Burnt Offerings (1995)
Iced Earth were always an anomaly within USPM, far darker and much more aggressive than their peers and unlike the rest of the bands from that scene, they did not…