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Broken Hope – Omen of Disease (Century Media, 2013)
In spite of kicking around the death metal scene since 1988, Chicago’s Broken Hope rarely get their due in underground circles. These wholesome, well-mannered Midwestern boys made good have often...
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Benighted – Carnivore Sublime (Season of Mist, 2014)
There are brutal death metal bands, and then there’s Benighted. The French five-piece do everything they possibly can to shit all over the subgenre’s rule book by crafting catchy songs that you can...
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Oodles of Brutals III: Tech Death and Other Delights
It’s been quite a while since I did one of these (over a year, to be slightly more precise), but frankly there hasn’t been a whole lot of new stuff on the brutality front that’s really tripped my...
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Broken Hope @ Vaudeville Mews, 04/03/2014
Over the past few years, I’ve had the opportunity to finally check a few bands off my old school death metal bucket list. The likes of Cannibal Corpse, Morbid Angel and Grave (I sadly missed Deicide...
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Bandcamp Band Crap #2: Bandcamp Slamcamp
I have a growing obsession with slamming death metal. Yes, I know its visual and lyrical imagery tends to be crude, tactless and in all-around poor taste. Yes, I know much of the metal community...
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Stages of Decomposition – Piles of Rotting Flesh (Gore House Productions, 2014)
In the most recent edition of my Oodles of Brutals series, I proclaimed that Stages of Decomposition’s Piles of Rotting Flesh just might be the slam album to beat in 2014 based on the two teaser...
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Bleedead – Mustma Dorcheme (Gore House Productions, 2014)
Japan is home to some of the best contemporary brutal death metal there is. From the sludgy slams of Gorevent to the visceral precision of Desacravity and beyond, the country has a proven knack for...
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Interview: COLPOLSCOPY
Southern California-based label Gore House Productions recently sent me several of their releases for review, and one of the immediate standouts was Ready for Gore, the debut album from Oxnard’s...
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Twitch of the Death Nerve – A New Code of Morality (Comatose Music, 2014)
Regular readers will have no doubt noticed that the bulk of the coverage here at THKD of late has turned towards brutal death metal in all its guises. There are many reasons for this. One, the style...
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Scrotoctomy – From Torture to Putrefaction (Gore House Productions, 2014)
Opening things up with a sample from Hostel, Mexico’s Scrotoctomy get right to the point with their debut EP, From Torture To Putrefaction. They are the first Mexican slam band I’ve encountered, but...
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Reek of Reviewtrefaction: A Gore House Productions roundup
As I sat at my laptop thinking about what to write about while unthawing THKD from its brief cryogenic slumber, it seemed only appropriate that my first post from California be used to shine the...
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Across the Swarm – s/t (self-released, 2014)
I’ve been covering quite a bit of brutal death metal of late, but Italy’s Across the Swarm stand out even among the standouts I’ve been touching on throughout 2014. What makes the band so special,...
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Extremely Rotten – Zombification of the Masses (Gore House Productions, 2014)
If you’re into brutality, Southern California’s Gore House Productions have been killing it in 2014, putting out a slew of excellent brutal death metal, slam and goregrind releases with no end in...
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Phalloplasty – Systematic Mutilation (Gore House Productions, 2014)
Los Angeles, CA’s Gore House Productions has one of the most insane release schedules of any of the independent labels I regularly work with. Seriously, they pump out such a constant stream of...
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7 H. Target – 0.00 Apocalypse (Sevared Records, 2014)
What the hell is going on over in Russia? Over the past several years, the country has become a hotbed for slam/brutal death metal, as evidenced by the likes of Abominable Putridity, Traumatomy,...
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Swine Overlord – Parables of Umbral Transcendence (Gore House Productions, 2014)
“Mature” probably isn’t the first word that comes to mind when one thinks of brutal death metal, hell it probably isn’t the five-hundredth word one thinks of. But I’ll be damned if Parables of Umbral...
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A word on brutality.
Brutal death metal bands often get accused of promoting misogyny and violence. I was thinking about this the other day while listening to Abusing Dismembered Beauties, the third and most recent album...
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Cannibal Corpse – A Skeletal Domain (Metal Blade Records, 2014)
As much as I’ve championed brutal death metal here at THKD lately, I’d be remiss not to review the latest album from Cannibal Corpse, the proverbial granddaddies of ‘em all. I mean, I think we can all...
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Party Cannon – Partied in Half (Gore House Productions, 2014)
Before I ever heard even a single note from Scotland’s Party Cannon, I loved their shtick. With their Toys ‘R’ Us-esque logo and song titles like “There’s a Reason You’re Single” and “Tyrone, You Put...
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Cuff – Transient Suffering Through the Ergosphere (Gore House Productions, 2014)
Just when I think I have Gore House Productions all figured out, they start throwing wicked curve balls late in the year. First came the oddly progressive debut full length from Swine Overlord, then...
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Bloodscribe – Prologue to the Apocalypse (Gore House Productions, 2015)
It’s been a quiet year so far on the slam/brutal death metal front here at THKD. I get a serious hankering for this shit every so often, and due to the lack of promos I have to admit I’ve been...
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Hideous Rebirth – Completely Devoured (Gore House Productions, 2015)
Gore House Productions is on a mission to brutalize the living hell out of 2015. First they pummeled us to a pulp with Bloodscribe’s Prologue to the Apocalypse, now they’re stomping the bloody remains...
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Oodles of Brutals IV: Brutal-Fu, da Return
Holy shit you guys, I haven’t done one of these brutal/tech/slam death metal roundup features since 2014! Wasn’t this supposed to be a semi-regular feature?! I guess 2014 was also the year that I...
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New Cystic Dysentery tracks!
Back in 2012, Jacksonville’s Cystic Dysentery released Culture of Death, one of my favorite under-the-radar brutal death metal albums of the last five years. Indeed, the band’s debut displays their...
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Serial Butcher – Brute Force Lobotomy (Unique Leader, 2015)
I damn near passed on checking out Serial Butcher. On the surface, everything about the band’s second album Brute Force Lobotomy, from the title to the cover art, screams run-of-the-mill brutal death...
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