Writer Archive: Eric Burnet
Vore – Gravehammer
Let me say this to begin: the combination of the band name “Vore”, the album title Gravehammer and this record’s cover art is the most brutal...
Interview With Nephelium
1. Please give us a short history of Nephelium.
The band was born and initially bred in the United Arab Emirates. We went through several line-up changes...
Interview With Joost Van Der Graaf Of I CHAOS
I CHAOS is a brutal death metal band from the Netherlands. They recently released The Human Repellent, their debut full-length album. After a Twitter...
Hatesphere – The Great Bludgeoning
Hatesphere is a name I have encountered numerous times in the last decade in my frolicking through the metal scene. No wonder, The Great Bludgeoning is...
I Chaos – The Human Repellent
Do we, as death metal fans, need another brutal band that reshuffles our favorite genre, re-ordering the same list of influences, and re-playing similar...
Exhumed – All Guts, No Glory
Exhumed is an American death metal and goregrind band that has been around since the late ’90s. Their sound is a bloody extension of the groundwork...
Slytract – Existing Unreal
Hailing from Hungary, Slytract are a modern death metal trio that, while not inventing anything new, are using many excellent elements from existing metal...
World Under Blood – Tactical
‘Melodic death metal’ doesn’t automatically mean a visit to the In Flames and At The Gates cloning factory anymore. More and more bands...
Decapitated – Carnival Is Forever
The story of Decapitated is highly inspiring to me. Winds Of Creation, the band’s debut album from 2000, was released when the band members were...
Pain – You Only Live Twice
Pain is the industrial/rock/pop metal side project of Hypocrisy main man Peter Tägtgren. I just thought it was worth name dropping him right off the bat...
Cerebral Bore – Maniacal Miscreation
The first track on Cerebral Bore’s Maniacal Miscreation, “Epileptic Strobe Entrapment”, starts off really, really, well. For the the...
Origin – Entity
Death metal is alive and well. The old guard is active and releasing quality new material (see: Deicide, Suffocation), the technical scene has evolved...
Hate Eternal – Phoenix Amongst the Ashes
Those who have not yet heard of Hate Eternal can likely surmise from the band’s name that they play death metal. However, simply plugging that genre...
Graviton – Massless
Graviton’s press materials market them as ambient electronic fusion / shoegaze / melodic metal. This is in part accurate, but the ‘metal’...
Deicide – To Hell With God
Deicide, a band whose story is rife with controversy and surprise, is back. Am I the only one who had heard 2008’s Till Death Do Us Part was their farewell...
Omnium Gatherum – New World Shadows
Omnium Gatherum is a melodic death metal band from Finland. New World Shadows is their fifth full-length release, and their first on Lifeforce Records....
Bane – Chaos, Darkness, and Emptiness
Note: This album is supposedly divided into three “chapters”, so keep that in mind as you read this.
Bane’s Chaos, Darkness, and Emptiness album...
Agalloch – Marrow Of The Spirit
I discovered Agalloch with their 2006 album, Ashes Against The Grain. When I think of the music on that release, the words that come to mind are: sorrowful,...