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Blackened Death Metal

  • Portal & Rites Of Thy Degringolade “Split”

    Both of these bands are/were acts that have unfortunately been criminally overlooked in the world of metal. Australia’s Portal plays an occult breed of harsh, dark death metal that is insanely technical to the point of utter insanity, invoking a strange avant garde version of the "wall o’ sound" effect. It takes several sittings just [...]
    http://www.teufelstomb.com/reviews/portalritesofthydegringolade-split/

  • Portal “Outré”

    To say that Portal’s second album Outr is one of my most anticipated releases of 2007 would be an understatement. After being exposed to their obscure and baffling breed of death metal on Seepia and their split with Rites of Thy Degringolade, then hearing the promising new material on the Lurker at the Threshold demo [...]
    http://www.teufelstomb.com/reviews/portal-outre/

  • Portal “Lurker at the Threshold”

    Portal is without a doubt one of the best death metal bands coming out of Australia currently. They play a form of harsh death metal that possesses the technical weirdness and intensity of Gorguts, yet has the aesthetic feel of the most nihilistic, inhumanly fast black metal acts, and still finds time to mess with [...]
    http://www.teufelstomb.com/reviews/portal-lurkeratthethreshold/

  • Pessimist “Blood For The Gods”

    Pessimist’s second release on Lost Disciple Records is an impressive album showing maturity in song writing and technicality. I was amazed that this is what Pessimist currently sounds like and I could definitely say that it made me forget that their debut album, Cult Of The Initiated, even existed. The Pessimist sound is still [...]
    http://www.teufelstomb.com/reviews/pessimist-bloodforthegods/

  • Mutant “The Aeonic Majesty”

    Formed in 1998 by Theory In Practice guitarist Peter Lake and drummer Henrik Ohlsson as an outlet to unleash a darker and more evil style of music than the confines of their main project would allow, Mutant unleash a unique technicality to the often simplistic and monotonous black metal genre. The music is exactly [...]
    http://www.teufelstomb.com/reviews/mutant-theaeonicmajesty/

  • Moratorium & Beautician “Split”

    The UK is renown for a lot of great things, from Young Ones and Bottom to Bizarre Magazine and Page 3 to Napalm Death and Carcass. Two things the UK is not known for is releasing quality blackened death/thrash (Moratorium) or goregrind (Beautician). They are, however, rather notorious for their bad teeth, hoodlums, [...]
    http://www.teufelstomb.com/reviews/moratoriumbeautician-split/

  • Lunatic Gods “Sitting By The Fire”

    I fucking do not understand. I have just suffered a horrendous attack to my senses . My CD player has been raped!!! Why?? What did I do to deserve this? I mean, sure, I like metal, I put out a ‘zine and it seemed appealing to some people, so I [...]
    http://www.teufelstomb.com/reviews/lunaticgods-sittingbythefire/

  • Hadez “Even If You Die A Thousand Times”

    Hadez, hailing from Peru, is one of the oldest metal bands therein, beginning in the mid 80’s with several demos. In the early 90’s their debut album, Aquelarre, was released by Brutal Records. Almost 10 years later, the advent of the second Hadez attack, Even If You Die A Thousand Times, is upon [...]
    http://www.teufelstomb.com/reviews/hadez-evenifyoudieathousandtimes/

  • Grief Of Emerald “Malformed Seed”

    I admit to still being rather new to the entire black metal genre, however, considering I’ve basically heard the same patterns and riffs they recorded by several other bands in the past, it’s safe to say Grief Of Emerald aren’t exactly the most exciting or original bands around. When I first heard this CD, [...]
    http://www.teufelstomb.com/reviews/griefofemerald-malformedseed/

  • God Dethroned “Bloody Blasphemy”

    Holland’s God Dethroned’s second Metal Blade release is much like their ‘97 album The Grand Grimoire; unimpressive, unoriginal and boring. I won’t even attempt to candy coat the facts here, I honestly don’t think much of this quartet. Their music is grindy death-thrash with guttural black metal vocals. The music is rather [...]
    http://www.teufelstomb.com/reviews/goddethroned-bloodyblasphemy/