Dark Death Metal

• Dead Congregation “Purifying Consecrated Ground”

  A few months back fellow reviewer Necro-tron wrote about a Greek dark death metal act named Dead Congregation’s latest full length offering, Graves Of The Archangels. In the review he mentioned the band fused the sounds of Immolation, Incantation and Drawn And Quartered. This caught my attention as I’m a huge fan of [...]
  http://www.teufelstomb.com/reviews/deadcongregation-putrifyingconsecratedground/

• Thornafire “Exacerbated Gnostic Manifestation”

  Oftentimes you can tell exactly what a CD is going to sound like just by looking at which label released it. Razorback Records releases old school death metal and goregrind. Willowtip Records releases technical death metal and grindcore. No Escape Records is nothing but goregrind. Ibex Moon Records, which is the [...]
  http://www.teufelstomb.com/reviews/thornafire-exacerbatedgnosticmanifestation/

• Impureza “Inquisition Demos”

  In 2007 France’s Nihilistic Holocaust released a 10 song demo compilation by French death metallers Impureza entitled Inquisition Demos. Contained on the release is material from the band’s three demo recordings and kicks off with the most recent material from 2007’s El En Desierto De La Creencia. The opening track, "El Gitano Maldito", starts off [...]
  http://www.teufelstomb.com/reviews/impureza-inquisitiondemos/

• Incantation “Blasphemous Cremation”

  In 1992 Incantation released one of the most crushing dark death metal albums of all time in the form of their debut full length offering Onward To Golgotha. The album was a perfect blend of technical death metal riffs with crazy tremolo picking, brutal death metal shredding and blasting and a dark doom metal atmosphere. [...]
  http://www.teufelstomb.com/reviews/incantation-blasphemouscremation/

• Dead Congregation “Graves of the Archangels”

  You know what’s the best kind of death metal? That brooding kind of death metal that instills a sense of fear and ominous foreboding in the listener, as if his last hours will come with the dawn and his worthless corpse will be reduced to dust and ash in the early morning rays as they [...]
  http://www.teufelstomb.com/reviews/deadcongregation-gravesofthearchangels/

• Immolation “Close To A World Below”

  I had to wait four long years after the release of Here In After to hear new material from Immolation, which came in the form of Failures For Gods, an amazingly technical and intense slab of pure hatred. After hearing the greatness of the release I was worried that I may, once again, have [...]
  http://www.teufelstomb.com/reviews/immolation-closetoaworldbelow_2/

• Immolation “Close To A World Below”

  Immolation have created a true masterpiece. This is perhaps the greatest pure death metal album ever to emerge. Rawness, technical perfection, pure darkness, uncompromising and true hatred - that is the deafening ichor which seeps from this vile disc. Immolation utilizes very non-traditional beats and riffing structures here. The drumming is [...]
  http://www.teufelstomb.com/reviews/immolation-closetoaworldbelow_3/

• Vrykolakas “Spawned From Hellfire And Brimstones”

  Hailing from the land of WTN, Impiety, Demisor and brutal canings come Singapore’s Vrykolakas. I have to admit I’d never heard of this group before receiving the promo for Spawned From Hellfire And Brimstones in the mail, but the band was actually formed in 1992 and have released three demos and several split releases. [...]
  http://www.teufelstomb.com/reviews/vrykolakas-spawnedfromhellfireandbrimstones/

• Ravager “Naxzgul Rising”

  From the ashes of Domain comes Mexico’s Ravager with their second full length effort Naxzgul Rising. Their stint in the realm of the living was brief, however, splitting shortly before the release of this full length album. The group consists of bassist Sergio Alvarez, former Disgorge (mex) front man Antimo Buonnano, as well [...]
  http://www.teufelstomb.com/reviews/ravager-naxzgulrising/

• 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/

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