Tag Archives: technical death metal

Artist: Replicant Album Title: Infinite Mortality Label: Transcending Obscurity Date of Release: 12 April 2024 2024 definitely feels like it’s the year that my tastes get even heavier and more extreme. I tend to think of myself as a progressive metal fan first and foremost, but so far, there have only been precious few releases  Continue Reading »

Artist: Protosequence Album Title: Bestiary Label: Lacerated Enemy Records Date of Release: 5 April 2024 I’m not sure what’s going on in Canada at the moment, but alongside encouraging pedestrians to use fake bricks in Vancouver in an effort to get cars to stop at crossings, there seems to be one hell of a steady  Continue Reading »

Artist: Hour Of Penance Album Title: Devotion Label: Agonia Records Date of Release: 5 April 2024 Yeck, yuck, and thrice yuck. The AI debate will rage on and on for months, years, maybe decades. Who knows where the subject will end. But, in 2024, I am one of the music fans in the camp that  Continue Reading »

Artist: Apogean Album Title: Cyberstrictive Label: The Artisan Era Date of Release: 8 March 2024 If you’d said to me even as recently as two years ago, that technical death metal would become one of my absolute favourite genres of heavy metal, I’d have likely laughed in your face. ‘Classic’ progressive metal? Yes. Raw, groovy,  Continue Reading »

Artist: Vitriol Album Title: Suffer & Become Label: Century Media Records Date of Release: 26 January 2024 There’s a time and a place to have your face, ears, and every other appendage ripped off by some extreme music and, for me, that time is now, courtesy of this beast of an album, ‘Suffer & Become’  Continue Reading »

Artist: Cognizance Album Title: Phantazein Label: Willowtip Records Date of Release: 26 January 2024 I come to this review with little knowledge of Cognizance, other than they are a UK-based band that fits somewhere within the technical death metal spectrum, with more than a hint or two of deathcore. And it was the latter that  Continue Reading »

Artist: Exocrine Album Title: Legend Label: Season Of Mist Date of Release: 26 January 2024 It was only eighteen months ago that I was sitting open-mouthed, experiencing my first taste of Exocrine via their fifth full-length release, ‘The Hybrid Suns’. The quartet from Bordeaux, France had eluded me despite being in existence since 2015, but  Continue Reading »

Despite going AWOL for large chunks of the year and not reviewing all of the albums I wanted to, I never stopped listening to new music at any time. And so, by (not so) popular demand, I thought I’d still put together a post detailing my favourite albums of 2023. My usual Top 30 daily  Continue Reading »

Artist: Chronicle Album Title: Where Chaos Thrives Label: Mighty Music Date of Release: 19 May 2023 ‘Hmm…that looks like an interesting, strangely alluring cover’, I thought whilst flicking through the mountain of promos sent my way of late. ‘For fans of The Black Dahlia Murder, Carcass, Children Of Bodom, Revocation’, I then read. ‘Consider my  Continue Reading »

Artist: Ne Obliviscaris Album Title: Exul Label: Season Of Mist Date of Release: 24 March 2023 How do you follow an album of the outstanding quality of ‘Urn’? An album about which I am on record as stating: “…Ne Obliviscaris have put together a near-flawless masterpiece with ‘Urn’. It is the sound of the progressive  Continue Reading »