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Obituary – Dying of Everything (Album Review)
Relapse Records - 2023 - United States Obituary has been a long time and here they are with a brand new release. Singer John Tardy still ha…
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Chris Forbes has been covering the underground metal scene since the late 80s and runs the Metal Reviews column at Extreminal.
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Blood Of The Wolf – IV: The Declaration Of War Eternal (Album Review)
Horror Pain Gore Death Productions - 2022 - United States A sick, pounding display of death metal played the right way. The band mix in the…
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In Pain – The Thing From the Grave (Album Review)
Southcoast Productions/ To The Death Records - 2022 - Sweden Yes, yes. Prime time Swedish style death metal my fellow metalheads and I don’…
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Morbus Grave – Lurking Into Absurdity
Morbus Grave – Lurking Into Absurdity Album Review Chaos Records - 2022 - Italy Pretty cool death metal band here. A weird, sort of differe…
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Sathanas - Psalm Satani
Sathanas - Psalm Satani Album Review Vidar Records - 2022 - United States Damn, I remember writing to Paul Tucker back in the 80s, and look…
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Lucifericion – The Warlock of Da’ath
Lucifericion – The Warlock of Da’ath Invictus Productions - 2022 - The Netherlands Another crushing classic from this label. This band comb…
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Negative Vortex – Tomb Absolute
Negative Vortex – Tomb Absolute (CVLT Nation) Sentient Ruin Laboratories - 2023 - United States F*ckin this is a band not to be messed arou…
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Chris Forbes’s Metal Reviews #13
Spent more time doing interviews over the past couple of months than reviews and I hope you have enjoyed my interviews on here as I try to …
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Chris Forbes's Metal Reviews #10
GENOCIDE PACT/Same (Relapse Records) Some decent hard-hitting death metal with a mix of slow crushing parts and then they break out into su…
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Chris Forbes’s Metal Reviews #9
TRIUMPH/Rock N Roll Machine (Revolver Films) This is a movie on the rock n roll career of the rock band Triumph, which I was a major fan of…
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Xenos - Filthgrinder
Club Inferno Entertainment Finally some thrash that is no bullshit and no nu metal, groove shit. This is hard hitting, speedy thrash metal …
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Necrodemon - Reclamation of the Stygian Throne/Black Art Revenge
Necrotic Records This band sees a re-release of this release (from 2010) and as a bonus you get the band’s EP called “Black Art Revenge” (2…