FFO: Decapitated, Rivers of Nihil, Ulcerate
Listen: Destroy, Erase, Create
The Ex-Decapitated Drummer and Multi-instrumentalist, known
to the world as Krimh, has dropped a shiny new bombshell of technical metal wizardry
in this latest release. Krimhera is a great mix of technicality, brutality and
progression. A must for anyone who likes their metal fast and tight. If I were
Slipknot right now, I’d be kicking myself for not allowing this unfairly
talented man into the band.
White Arms of Athena
FFO: Botch, Thrice, Cave In
Listen: Heavy Sleep
Not content with being the best version of Between The
Buried and Me that doesn't contain Tommy Giles Rogers, White Arms of Athena
have taken a massive leap in a new direction on their sophomore, self-titled,
release. Now sounding more akin to Thrice meets ambient noodling, White Arms…
have released perhaps one of the most off-kilter -core releases of the year.
Whilst it might not make you want to flail around your bedroom filled with only
the purest teen angst, it will make you ponder: “What the hell is going on? And why do I like it so much?”
Centinex
FFO: Entombed, Massacre, Obituary
Listen: Moist Purple Skin
Old School Death Metal is immortal and Centinex are a
testament to that fact. The riffing on this album is pure 90’s Floridian
throwback that is well enough executed to make you yearn for those glory days. It
is however the vocals that really make this album. The tortured, bestial growls
of Alex Hogbom will make even your favourite modern Death Metal vocalists seem
tame in comparison.
Other Releases
Angels & Airwaves - The Dream
Walker (To The Stars Records)
Atomic Aggressor – Sights of Suffering
(Hells Headbangers Records)
Barrier – Eventide (Self-Released)
Bloodlash – Drowning Amidst The Nebulae
(EP) (Inverse)
Cretin – Stranger (Relapse Records)
Cult Of Fire – Čtvrtá Symfonie Ohně
(Iron Bonehead Productions)
Death Wolf – III: Östergötland (Century
Media)
Deathhammer – Evil Power (Hells
Headbangers Records)
Decimation - Reign Of Ungodly Creation (Comatose)
Dimesland – Psychogenic Atrophy
(Self-Released)
Dir En Grey – Arche (Firewall Div.)
Emigrate – Silent So Long (Spinefarm)
Encoffination - III - Hear Me, O' Death
(Selfmadegod Records)
Exercration – Morbid Dimension (Hells
Headbangers Records)
Faith No More – Motherfucker (Single)
(Reclamation)
I Fight Dragons –
The Near Future (Self-Released)
Jucifer – District of Dystopia (Nomadic
Fortress)
Kathaarsys - Describing The Paradox
Vol. 1 (Self-Released)
Lynch Mob – Sun Red Sun (Rat Pak
Records)
Mesmur – Mesmur (code666)
Nervochaos – The Art of Vengeance
(Greyhaze Records)
Pythia – Shadows Of A Broken Past
(Golden Axe)
R.E.M. - 7IN-83-88 (CMG)
RAM/Portrait – Under Command (Split)
(Metal Blade)
Sifisticator – Death By Zapping
(Earthquake Terror Noise)
Taake – Stidens Hus (Dark Essence
Records)
Thaw – Earth Ground (Witching Hour)
The Banner – Greying (Good Fight Music)
The Smashing Pumpkins - Monuments to an
Elegy (Martha's Music/BMG)
These Arms Are Snakes/The Coathangers –
Split 7” (Split) (Suicide Squeeze Records)
Unsacred – False Light (Forcefield
Records)
Varathron – Untrodden Corridors of
Hades (Agonia Records)
Yes - Like It Is: Live at the Bristol
Hippodrome (Frontiers Records)