Celluloid Dissonance

Fatal’s Return From Exile doesn’t waste time dressing itself up as something grander than it is. This is death/thrash with dirt under its nails, built on speed, bite, and the kind of riff-first aggression that feels  ...

Most brutal death metal albums are built for impact. They hit hard, keep hitting harder, and dare you to survive the ride. The Dark Ascension Of The Supreme Prometheus Gods has all of that, but Drain of Impurity  ...

Solvorn hasn't released a debut—they've detonated the fucking thing. Echoes of Godless Light crashes in like a meteor, dragging melodic death metal through broken glass before setting the whole damn genre ...

Seven years is a long damn time to disappear in technical death metal. Bands either fade into irrelevance or return sounding like a sterile version of themselves, obsessed with proving how many notes they  ...

A low hum emerges from the void—distant, mechanical, almost celestial. It swells into a vast orchestral surge, as if some unseen force is breathing life into the cosmos itself. Flickers of melody spiral like  ...

A low hum emerges from the void—distant, mechanical, almost celestial. It swells into a vast orchestral surge, as if some unseen force is breathing life into the cosmos itself. Flickers of melody spiral like  ...

I knew I was in trouble about two minutes into Old Gods Awaken. That stupid grin hit my face—the same one I had as a thirteen-year-old sneaking downstairs after my parents went to bed to watch Deathstalker. The ...

Colorado has turned into a goddamn monster factory. Denver has been cranking out some of the most adventurous extreme metal on the planet over the past decade. Blood Incantation tore through death metal and imbued  ...

Seven years after Obscene Majesty, I expected Devourment to return eventually. What I didn't expect was a three-song EP that sounds this vicious. Pious Impiety isn't some nostalgic victory lap from one of Slam's  ...

I've always thought Venom's biggest strength was that they never seemed to care what anyone expected from them. Plenty of bands from their era either mellowed out, cleaned themselves up, or turned into museum  ...