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Review: Assimilator – Expelled into Suffering
Review by Sandre the Giant Old school death metal/thrashers Assimilator have got a new EP out this year, following up on their 2022 self titled debut record, and ‘Expelled into Suffering’ has just...
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Review: Barbarie Medieval – En La Oscuridad un Lamento
Review by Sandre the Giant We’re back with La Caverna Records again, and this time they are releasing the first two demo recordings from Barbarie Medieval, another Colombian raw death metal group...
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2024 Anniversary Series 111: Demonic Resurrection – The Demon King
Scribed by Sadnre the Giant For those of you that have been around the Killchain since the beginning, first thanks for somehow never getting bored of my shit, and two you’ll remember my early...
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Review: Brutalism – Solace in Absurdity
Review by Sandre the Giant The debut record from Boise, Idaho’s Brutalism suggests that something decidedly ugly is lurking in the grim, not-quite-Pacific-Northwest. We’re not sure what it is. But if...
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2024 Anniversary Series 112: The Dillinger Escape Plan – Miss Machine
Scribed by Sandre the Giant The Dillinger Escape Plan were, and are to this day, one of the most influential and game changing bands in modern extreme music. Their spasming mathcore chaos has inspired...
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Review: VHS – For a Few Riffs More
Review by Sandre the Giant Only VHS could get away with this. Well, maybe not just them, but only VHS had a chance of making this a good idea! Far from their death metal and thrash roots taking on...
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Review: Orme – No Serpents, No Saviours
Review by Sandre the Giant Originally published: https://www.thesleepingshaman.com/reviews/orme-no-serpents-no-saviours/ The self titled, double album debut from UK sludge/drone/doom trio Orme was...
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2024 Anniversary Series 113: Fallujah – The Flesh Prevails
Scribed by Sandre the Giant One of the stand out names in the newer crop of death metal bands appearing in the late 2000s/early 2010s were Fallujah, a band who began the evolution of those colourful...
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Review: Sanctuarium – Melted and Decomposed
Review by Sandre the Giant That is a hell of an album cover, let’s get that out of the way to start, somehow making even death metal seem even more unpleasant and unsettling. The new record from...
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Review: Combat Noise – To the Heart of the Battle
Review by Sandre the Giant The fourth record from long running Cuban death metallers Combat Noise is ‘To the Heart of the Battle’, and it is out now through Satanath Records. I think this might be the...
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2024 Anniversary Series 114: Turisas – Battle Metal
Scribed by Sandre the Giant As we’ve seen and will see, 2004 was a pivotal year for the evolution and explosion of popularity of folk metal, with tent pole releases by what would really become the...
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Review: Morgue – Close to Complete Darkness
Review by Sandre the Giant French death metallers Morgue are back with another record of death metal goodness, following up their 2022 record ‘Lowest Depths of Misery’. They were a fixture in the...
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2024 Anniversary Series 115: The Wolves of Avalon – Boudicca’s Last Stand
Scribed by Sandre the Giant When I first started this blog, back in the distant past, I spent a lot of time digging around in the British underground to find new and interesting bands to cover, and...
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2024 Anniversary Series 116: Metallica – Ride the Lightning
Scribed by Sandre the Giant Here we go, a big one. A seriously big one. Probably one of thrash’s most influential albums, probably one of METAL’S most influential albums and the one that ‘real’ fans...
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Review: Gråt Strigoi – The Prophetic Silence
Review by Sandre the Giant The fourth full length record from Glaswegian depressive black metallers Gråt Strigoi is out now self released, but they’re getting a nice vinyl release in November through...
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2024 Anniversary Series 117: Incantation – Decimate Christendom
Scribed by Sandre the Giant A monstrous giant of death metal, and a founding father of the New York Death Metal scene that has proven over time to be a hugely influential part of death metal’s...
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2024 Anniversary Series 118: Manowar – Hail to England
Scribed by Sandre the Giant Manowar baby, where to start this time? We covered them back last year on their ‘Into Glory Ride’ record, but I wanted to make another mention of them in the 1984 roundup...
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Review: God Dethroned – The Judas Paradox
Review by Sandre the Giant God Dethroned have built a career upon death metal’s core values of good song writing and big brutal riffs, and these long running Dutchmen have become an institution at...
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2024 Anniversary Series 119: Living Death – Vengeance of Hell
Scribed by Sandre the Giant This is the kind of album that the Killchain’s Anniversary Series is all about; the lost classics that don’t get the love that they deserve in the modern age. German...
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Review: Pyrrhon – Exhaust
Review by Sandre the Giant The surprise release of New York experimental death metallers Pyrrhon’s newest record, ‘Exhaust’, just last week in fact, was just typical of the kind of the band we’re...
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