Grave Miasma belongs to the group of bands that put quality over time. Starting in 2006, after having operated under the name of Goat Molestör for four years, the trio unleashed a fist EP called ‘Exalted Emanation’ in 2009. The full-length debut though took a bit longer. ‘Odori Sepulcrorum’ escaped the darkness in 2013 and... Continue Reading →
TEMPLE OF DREAD announce a new album
The first two longplayers, created by Temple Of Dread, received very positive feedback, which has been motivation enough for the band to start work on a powerful third strike. 'Hades Unleashed' will bring nine new songs to surface. Release date for this new longplayer will be July 23rd via Testimony Records. The tracklist has been... Continue Reading →
Review LUNA’S CALL ‘Void’
Luna's Call offer with their new work 'Void' a perfect basis for analysts and friends of the sophisticated detail. What the guys from Lincoln, UK deliver is music, that is made of beautiful acoustic melodic arcs, which lead to extreme death metal excesses. The whole music is embedded in multilayered and complex song structures that... Continue Reading →
Review GOJIRA ‘Fortitude’
The quartet started in 2001 when they successfully completed a renaming from Godzilla to Gojira. The debut 'Terra Incognita' was released in the same year and since then the band has become essential.Gojira slowly and steadily built up a fanbase that is constantly growing. This can be recognized among other things by the chart entries,... Continue Reading →
Review MORBID BREATH ‘In the Hands of the Reaper’ – EP
There isn't that much information available when it comes to Morbid Breath. Also the omniscient internet doesn't provide a lot of insights when it comes to the band of Marcus Eriksson(b/v), Stefan Carrillo (g), Felix Klaesson (g) and David Gustafsson (d). What we can conclude is, that Morbid Breath is a Swedish band and what's... Continue Reading →
CD review CANNIBAL CORPSE ‘Violence Unimagined’
Gore-iented lyrics and a splatter artwork, that belongs to Cannibal Corpse as well as the controversy discussions resulting of it. If a band can release 14 album though until now, it seems like the discussions never added any harm to Cannibal Corpse's rise in the fields of extreme metal and also the new longplayer 'Violence... Continue Reading →
DISEMBODIMENT will release ‘Mutated Chaos’ in May
'Mutated Chaos', that almost sounds like a virus that is more than a disturbance of our daily life since a year. In this case, it's different. 'Mutated Chaos' is the title of a new EP, penned by Disembodiment. The quartet hail from the greater Montreal area in Canada and will release with 'Mutated Chaos' an... Continue Reading →
CD review ENDSEEKER ‘Mount Carcass’
It's not that 2021 lacks good death metal releases, thinking about the newest The Crown album and the latest longplayer of UK death metal machine Memoriam. Here comes a next candidate for your shopping list, this time from the beautiful city of Hamburg. It feels like Endseeker being in business already since a long time... Continue Reading →
ENDSEEKER’s Ben Liepelt talks about ‘Mount Carcass’, Pablo EskoBear, a streaming event and many more interesting things
Hamburg's death metal powerhouse Endseeker worked on a new album that is in the starting blocks. 'Mount Carcass' will be unleashed on April 16th and Markus' Heavy Music Blog got the opportunity to talk to Endseeker guitarist Ben Liepelt. Enjoy reading what Ben has to tell about the new album and more. Markus' Heavy Music... Continue Reading →
CD review CRYPTOSIS ‘Bionic Swarm’
Raider became Twix and now it’s Dutch thrash metal trio Distillator that undergoes such a change too and become Cryptosis. After two longplayer, an EP and a split release with Space Chaser, Distillator called it an end while the guys moved on a created with Cryptosis a new power outlet for their electrifying thrash metal.... Continue Reading →
CD review MEMORIAM ‘To the End’
'To the End' is the title of Memoriam's new album and we can all hope that it's just the title of this longplayer since this band is so good that we don't even want to think about an end. Memoriam started in 2016 when former Bolt Thrower frontman Karl Willetts and Benediction bassist Frank Healy... Continue Reading →
CD review PARANORM ‘Empyrean’
Paranorm is based in Uppsala, Sweden and was formed in 2007. A first EP called ‘Pandemonium’s Rise’ has been released in 2011 and it was the ‘The Edge of Existence’ release that followed in 2014. What's missing until now is a full-length album, forged by the Swedish quartet. The band started this adventure a while... Continue Reading →
PARADISE LOST’s ‘Gothic – Live at Roadburn 2016’ out now
Paradise Lost performed a show, being part of the 2016 edition of the legendary Roadburn festival in Tilburg, The Netherlands. The band released the recording of this show today via their Bandcamp site. The entire show is a 45:11 minutes audio file, not cut into different songs. As with a concert, you listen to it... Continue Reading →
CD review THE CROWN ‘Royal Destroyer’
The Crown belongs to the veterans of Swedish death metal with a foundation date in 1998 after having been around as Crown Of Thorns for a few years. In a way the guys belong to the group of bands, being the forerunner of Swedish death metal. The Crown premiered in 1998 with ‘Hell is Here’... Continue Reading →
OBITUARY announce live stream series
Death Metal Legends Obituary announce their new two part Spring livestream series. Obituary will perform the band’s favorite songs on March 27th and then witness The End Complete in its entirety on April 3rd! Tickets, t-shirts and bundles are available this Friday, March 5th at 1pm EST / 7pm in Europe at www.obituarylive.com.









