Mission Statement
The primary aim of our blog is to provide a place to discover death metal and to talk about, showcase and review releases, bands, and movements within the genre. Here you’ll find everything from retrospectives on bands and their discographies, album reviews, overviews and introductions into various scenes, directions and movements within death metal, deep dives into certain niche sounds or topics within the genre, and generally anything related to death metal and the subculture around it.
While the primary aim of our website is death metal, you’ll find various articles about other metal genres (and music in general) here too. We have a wide cast of authors, each with our own tastes and focuses, and niches of music we’re most familiar with and knowledgeable about. We’d all like to take a short bit to introduce ourselves and a death metal release we’d like more people to hear.
We hope you enjoy our blog and what’s to come!
Hi! You’ll probably see me signing my writings with Inanna, and I'll most likely be writing about something related to Finnish death metal, or anything old-school, savage and thrashy. While traditional heavy metal is what got me into metal (and it still remains my main passion), death metal has been a huge interest of mine for the past few years, and my main intent here is to introduce people to bands and albums I love, and to inspire discussion around some less talked about albums as well. As for a death metal release I'd like if people listened to:
On their 1992 EP Stigmartyr, Armoured Angel unleash 4 songs of rabid, raging death metal madness. The mid-paced riffs and grooves will bring Bolt Thrower to most people’s minds, but Armoured Angel’s approach is far more melodic. The riffing is carried along real well with the evil, brooding guitar tone and, all of this topped off with the raspy, at some moments almost whispered and clearly intelligible vocals, and all the catchy leads and memorable hooks the band throws at you leads to a still unrivaled experience. Releases like this have a kind of mystic, almost esoteric air to them, where the sheer impressiveness and quality of the music elevates the band to a cultic status, something which many current bands attempt to achieve by resorting to thin-veiled mysticism and fragile antics as a cry for attention. In my eyes an EP like this is exactly what death metal should be all about, free of bullshit posturing and the aesthetic wimpiness which infests metal. Eternal hails.
Hello blog viewers, I am The Fnead. You'll see my name pop up here on occasion to write about certain death metal niches I'm interested in. I have an extensive interest in all kinds of extreme music ranging from noise to industrial to hardcore to metal, but in the death metal realm you may find me discussing black/death, avant-garde death metal, or death doom the most.
A release I would recommend is Chasm of Nis - Redolent of Spheres, an EVIL chaotic atonal death metal demo made by Encoffination/Father Befouled member Justin Stubbs. For fans of Portal, Temple Nightside, wonky disjointed atmospheric riffs, and weird layered vocals. Not for wimps; this is real scary business.
Hello! I am cloggers. You will most frequently see my name appear next to brutal death metal, but there are several other niches you may see me discuss as well. While I personally struggle to decide what my favorite music genre is overall (There are so many perfect traditional heavy metal albums), death metal is my favorite type of music to discuss and explore. Aside from death metal, I am interested in war metal, traditional heavy metal, new wave, synthpop, and punk.
One album I would recommend is Infibulated - Diabolical Euphoric Subjugation. Infibulated is an international brutal death metal supergroup with members from Ecuador and the United States. Released in 2023 on New Standard Elite, Infibulated is heavily influenced by Orchidectomy, and this album even includes a cover of Celestial Excruciation.
Hi, you’ll see me appear here under my pen name Crying_Frost, a reference to the Cenotaph song of course! I am obsessed with all kinds of metal, from traditional heavy to thrash to doom, but on this blog you’ll chiefly see me discussing metal of the deathly and old school persuasion. You’ll find me analyzing scenes and labels, ranting about all sorts of obscure and ancient excavated artifacts, and maybe some reviews and year-end-lists. That’s just the way I do things. Deathcult for Eternity!
My first recommendation will be this belching heap of putrid reek that has recently been gaining notoriety with internet death metal nerds. It’s not hard to see why, simply a great helping of Finndeath obviously inspired by Disgrace and the Turku scene, with gurgling, deep goregrind-infused vocals, a fittingly shit-encrusted guitar tone, and that touch of rock in its riffcraft that only the Finns know how to cook up. Truly death metal made with youthful frenzy and fervor for the burgeoning death metal scene of the time. Not for the faint of heart, as the noxious fumes emanated by this demo may conjure unspeakable horrors in the minds of the uninitiated. In other words, go check out this pile of shit:
Hailz, you’ll see me writing under the name Overlord, in reference to the kvlt death metal classic Liers in Wait! I got into metal through bands like Morbid Angel, Runemagick, and Death and then later found my love for all things heavy metal and related. You'll see me writing mostly about primordial necrovorian styled blistering death metal, old school brutal death metal or melodically inclined epic tinged metal of all sorts. I plan on writing scene overviews, deep dives into eras and forgotten sounds and unearthing gems of the oldschool scene.
A release that I think exemplifies everything the original OSDM scene excelled at is Fatal’s masterwork ep “A Somber Evocation of Nihilism”. Fatal began as most early 90s death metal bands, playing a particularly brutalized version of early Slayer/Kreator/Coroner, but it is on this ep their sound turns into something wholly unique and original, blending the unrelenting technicality of a band like Helstar or Coroner with a melodic sense akin to that of the later swedish melodic death metal scene or even more traditional heavy metal bands, reaching similar conclusions to bands like Migauss, Arghoslent, Armoured Angel, and Ares Kingdom much earlier.
Greetings everyone, my name is Emily, generally on the internet I go by the pseudonym Cobra, you can call me either. I’m a huge fan of extreme metal, having discovered funeral doom in my teenage years and roughly branching off from there. I’m generally most into black and death metal in their pure forms, though I also tend to enjoy sludge metal, grindcore, funeral doom, and American-style power metal.
Should you take nothing else away from reading my introduction, please take a single listen of Intestine Baalism’s 1995 demo, “The Energumenus”. This band despite being from Japan plays a sort of amalgamation of the various styles of death metal of 1990s Sweden, ranging from the chainsaw toned driving attacks of Dismember, to the eerie depressive melodies of early At the Gates, to the black metal tinges of Dissection. Do not let the “melodic death metal” label that this band tends to be tagged with fool you into assuming you’re getting a mere power metal band with weak growls and buttrock guitar work, this is truly death metal that carries all the darkness and aggression the term implies.
