Kingdom of Noise

Adam Bartlett and his company, Gilead Media have been unearthing some of underground metal's best bands and bringing them to the...

Few albums released in 2012 were as sonically crushing as Black Sheep Wall's No Matter Where It Ends . Downright filthy tone and v...

Paroxsihzem's self-titled debut tops the list of Grade "A" releases from Dark Descent in 2012. This heavily blackened de...

Gaza's No Absolutes in Human Suffering is like a two-fisted slam to the sternum. It will take your breath away by force and bring...

I don't expect to take any heat for putting Pilgrim's Misery Wizard so high on my list but, I don't recall seeing it on an...

Everyone's favourite party thrashers Municipal Waste brought the fun to 2012 with The Fatal Feast . A (loose) concept album about a...

Yet another debut full length makes the list in the form of Empyrean from Mutilation Rites. This is one seriously vicious album of de...

Amenra's Mass V is a dark and atmospheric piece of music. The haunting vocals will rip your heart out of your chest. To really un...

 2012 saw not one, but two releases from Italy's psychedelic doomsters Ufomammut. Opus Primum and Opus Alter make up ORO, a spraw...

Like Horisont, this was another one of those releases in which I had heard some trusted sources raving about it and gave it a shot. I ...

I listen to a lot of music. Not enough, but a lot. But inevitably there is going to be a huge number of albums that for one reason or anot...

It's Cannibal fucking Corpse. Justification done. Fine, I'll write more. No one reading this can deny that Cannibal Corpse are...

I told you Witchcraft weren't my highest ranking Swedish retro-rockers this year! Horisont are a band I was unaware of prior to th...

My relationship with Meshuggah is on again, off again.  I loved Chaosphere , but couldn't even make it through obZen . Other album...

I don't think anyone was more surprised that I liked Helvetios more than me. Let alone that it would end up in my Top 25. In gene...

Two tracks. Too good. Reverence to Stone from doomsters Samothrace is an incredibly powerful and transformative album. It's hea...

Deftones can be considered the survivalists of the nu-metal age. Not only because they are one of the few bands in and around that sty...

I can't say I've been a lifelong Napalm Death fan. Solely because I had never heard them prior to Enemy of the Music Business....

I must admit I am a sucker for tone. If you have the right tone, I will get on my knees and kiss your feet. I'll have to do just t...

I don't believe I have as of yet been able to fully appreciate all that is Evoken, but Atra Mors may be the (anti-)stimulus needed...

Few releases of 2012 pack as much atmospheric punch as Vessels of Light and Decay . Just as the hooded figure on the cover invites ...

Liberteer is the singular vision and execution of Matthew Widener.  BTDOYFTLOYN  is a politically charged grind album the likes of ...

I don't feel like Aeon get enough credit in the greater death metal scheme of things. Hopefully  Aeons Black  can change that. Ae...

This would be the point where I paste a link to the review I already wrote, but it hasn't been published yet. In that case, I...

I'm gonna be lazy on this one and just link to the review I already wrote. And I will do the same for subsequent entries on the co...

I was first introduced to Testament in a friend's car back in 2001 outside the bar where the staff Christmas party was happening. ...

I've been a fan of Witchcraft for years. However, I must admit that Legend didn't wow me the way I hoped it would. The five y...

What's not to like? Edmonton's Begrime Exemious rupture eardrums and speakers alike with Visions of the Scourge . Insanely rel...

   Being the first death metal album to grace my Top 40 this year, Reign Supreme from Dying Fetus proves that I'm more interested...

Few bands are as appropriately named as D.I.S. See, that acronym stands for Destroyed In Seconds and that is exactly what Becoming Wrath...