Cruel Bloom - Death Culture 'Ep

Genre: Crust/Sludge/Hardcore
Country: Canada
Year: 2018


1. Gloom
2. Graves
3. Church Of The Glass Pipe
4. No Hope
5. Return To Ash
6. Death Eternal

The 6-song 'Ep was sent to us by the band itself. The group delivers 6 mid-tempo songs of sludgy, blackened hardcore. Raw and rough production with nice, screaming vocal delivery and some noise elements here and there.

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Regnvm Animale & Norn - Brinna/Brenna split 'Ep

Genre: Black/Crust
Country: Sweden/Iceland
Year: 2018

Regnvm Animale
1. Förhoppning
2. Människan är Människans Varg
3. Våga Se Mig I ögonen
4. Brinna
5. I Döden
Norn
6. Andartak
7. Hvítar Kjúkur
8. Þúsund Rauð Ljós
9. Af Svörtum álfum Og öpum þeirra
10. Ábreiða

Killer split 'Ep by Regnvm Animale and Norn. Both bands are offering 5 new songs of blackened crust, with lyrics in their native languages. Melodic yet aggressive tracks, with Norn flirting more with punk/crust and Regnvm Animale infusing some folk elements into their music. A great opportunity to get to know these interesting and promising groups. 

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Dream Troll - The Knight Of Rebellion

Genre: Heavy/Power
Country: England
Year: 2017



1. Time For Vengeance
2. Velvet Drawbridge
3. Mons Ominosus
4. Lost In The Pages
5. A Fairy's Tale
6. Unwanted By The Gods
7. (The) Earthbound Betrayal

Debut album by Dream Troll. A promising and very entertaining debut album. The group delivers high quality melodic heavy metal mixed with some power metal elements. Ignore the goofy cover artwork and let yourself have a trip in fantasy places, accompanied by great and melodic guitarwork and ethereal vocals.

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Afgrund - The Dystopian

Genre: Grindcore/Crust
Country: Sweden/Finland
Year: 2018

1. Limitless Source Of Power
2. Ruttna
3. Re-Exordium
4. Callous
5. Royalty Of Crust
6. Crossfire Agent
7. (Yet) Another Way To Kill
8. The Great Rift
9. Archaic Plague
10. Smasher Of Skulls
11. Demise Strategy

4th album by Afgrund. The group is back 6 years after the highly acclaimed 'The Age Of Dumb'. Crusty grindcore influenced by early Nasum. It’s 23 minute run absolutely flies by in a hail of brutal riffs & beats. Short songs, fast tempos without any filler moments.

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Dying Fetus - Wrong One To Fuck With

Genre: Death/Grindcore
Country: U.S.A.
Year: 2017

1. Fixated On Devastation
2. Panic Amongst The Herd
3. Die With Integrity
4. Reveling In The Abyss
5. Seething With Disdain
6. Ideological Subjugation
7. Weaken The Structure
8. Fallacy
9. Unmitigated Detestation
10. Wrong One To Fuck With
11. Induce Terror

8th album by Dying Fetus. The band picks up from where they left off with 'Reign Supreme', but actually give it a few more shots of adrenaline. The songs on here are angrier, faster, more technical and just flat out more fun to listen to. While the preceding two releases put focus into rhythm, this one on a vicious, speedy attack. 

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Dr. Living Dead! - Cosmic Conqueror

Genre: Thrash/Crossover
Country: Sweden
Year: 2017

1. Coffin Crusher
2. Can't Kill The Dead
3. The Summoning
4. Terror Vision
5. Cosmic Conqueror
6. Disease To Exist
7. Into The Eye
8. Survival Denied
9. Moment Of Clarity
10. Infiltrator/Exterminator
11. Cyber Crime

4th album by Dr. Living Dead!. I cannot say that it is at the same level of their first albums but is better that its predecessor. There are tracks-dynamites and others where the band sounds more mature than ever. Production is almost the same as in their whole discography and artwork in the same philosophy, no place for changes here. 

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Last Rites - Last Rites

Genre: D-Beat/Hardcore/Punk
Country: Greece
Year: 2018


1. Backstabber
2. Nothing More
3. Our Day Will Come
4. Deadweights
5. Nightmare
6. No Life To Live
7. Back In Line
8. Bloodthirsty
9. A Dose Of Reality
10. Last Rites

Debut album by Last Rites. 10 songs clocking around 30 minutes of aggressive, metal infused D-Beat/punk. A fresh group full of energy and anger that delivers a very entertaining album. Nice melodic riffing with angry vocals!

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Under The Church - Supernatural Punishment

Genre: Death
Country: Sweden/Iceland
Year: 2017


1. The Stygian Horror
2. Supernatural Punishment
3. Ancient Ritual
4. Staircase To Hell
5. Vitalizing Funeral
6. The Death Of Innocence
7. Crypt Of Pelvises
8. Wretched Disfigurement
9. Silence Of The Shadows

2nd album by Under The Church. With a revamped line-up consisting of members Erik Wahlin (Merciless), Marcus Klack (ex-Morbid) and Erik Sahlström (General Surgery, Crucifyre, etc), the group delivers a solid death metal album. Their compositions are based on punkish riffing, merciless banging of the drum set and really inspired solos that complete a concrete rythmic part.

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