The new wave of American death metal showed no sign of plateauing out this year, with a clutch of formidable debuts appearing in 2022. But the UK scene showed ... Read More...
Live Burial – Curse Of The Forlorn (Transcending Obscurity Records)
Live Burial’s long-awaited sophomore album, Unending Futility, arrived in 2020... as we ... Read More...
Live Burial, Tyrannus and Rancid Cadaver @The Little Buildings, Newcastle, May 27, 2022
How times change.
Two years ago, the thought of dozens of people ... Read More...
A host of veterans returned to the death metal scene in 2021. And they came to conquer.
But just like last year, the output from the genre’s emerging playe... Read More...
With Our Kingdom Undone, Beyond Grace have taken a leap forward – and given us even more evidence that UK death metal is alive, kicking and ready to take on it... Read More...
Live Burial/Vacivus @Trillians, Newcastle, September 30, 2021
A flashback to March, 2020…
Live Burial were all set to mark the release of Unending Futili... Read More...
Cryptic Shift/Plague Rider @Trillians, Newcastle, September 8, 2021
If you want to take a health check of the UK death metal scene, just look at Cryptic Shi... Read More...
Arguably the biggest UK death metal to emerge since Carcass hacked their way into the world’s consciousness, Venom Prison have never looked back since their de... Read More...
Carcass and Benediction are back with a vengeance, while Venom Prison are (quite rightly) grabbing the headlines as the standard bearers of 21st century UKDM. ... Read More...