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Teutonic Slaughter – Cheap Food Review

By Andy-War-Hall on February 13, 2026 in Reviews, Thrash Metal, 13 comments

“Becoming a fully-fledged metalhead is when you stop associating German metal with Rammstein and start with Teutonic thrash. There’s something about Germany that just makes thrash metal meaner, dirtier, and nastier than anywhere else, and without Teutonic thrash, extreme metal would likely look very different from where it is today. Knowing and loving this heritage, Germany’s own Teutonic Slaughter throws their feather-capped hat into the ring with their third album, Cheap Food, brandishing both a ridiculous album cover and a conviction to maintain the glory of old school Teutonic thrash metal.” Eat, prey, leave.

Burning Death – Burning Death Review

By Spicie Forrest on December 5, 2025 in Reviews, Thrash Metal, 21 comments

“In the prehistoric era known in academic circles as “the 80s,” metal had not yet splintered into the myriad microgenres we know today. Even our ten-ish main subgenres, while beginning to differentiate themselves, were still fairly grey. Within this primordial soup floated the building blocks that would one day give rise to modern black metal, including, among others, the early works of Slayer, Kreator, and Vulcano. This evil-sounding, satanic/anti-Christian thrash metal is also the inspiration for Nashville newcomers, Burning Death.” Die in Fi-YAA!

Sepulchral – Beneath the Shroud Review

By Steel Druhm on December 3, 2025 in Reviews, Black Metal, Death Metal, 22 comments

“I’m not at all well-versed on the Spanish death metal scene, but the descriptions for Sepulchral’s sophomore opus Beneath the Shroud intrigued me sufficiently to take a cautious flyer on them for a December review. End-of-year promo offerings are always a mötley stew of rejects, wannabes, never-weres, tricksy re-releases, and lo-fi basement black metal albums set to release on Christmas day, so I didn’t expect much. What I got was something interesting indeed. Sepulchral rock a very old school death metal approach with a prominent blackened streak that sometimes takes center stage.” Shroud and proud.

Mezzrow – Embrace the Awakening Review

By Dr. A.N. Grier on November 17, 2025 in Reviews, Thrash Metal, 29 comments

“With age and wisdom, it appears this quintet is looking to make an impact decades after the heydays of this unique flavor of thrash came and went. The energy, since the release of Summon Thy Demons, must continue to surge in their veins because I’m back to deliver a review of this year’s Embrace the Awakening. While none of their albums are terrible by any means, will the ‘third-times-the-charm’ bring Mezzrow the breakout success they seek?” Makin’ a Mezz.

Biolence – Violent Obliteration Review

By Spicie Forrest on September 28, 2025 in Reviews, Death Metal, Thrash Metal, 26 comments

“Prior to my initiation ritual and early in my tenure as a volunteer whipping post, one of my jailers here at AMG saw fit to offer encouragement. “It gets better,” Dolphin Whisperer said. “Okay, but have you looked around recently?” I asked. He shrugged and replied, “not really. I’ve got a newborn. The Dolphlet takes up a lot of effort.” My cell door clanged shut as he left. Alone in the dark, I would wait nearly two months for the affirmation I sought in that moment. It would come in the form of Violent Obliteration, the third full-length from Biolence, a death/thrash four-piece from Vila Nova de Gaia, Portugal.” Violence, wiolence…Biolence!

Desaster – Kill All Idols Review

By Steel Druhm on August 22, 2025 in Reviews, Black Metal, Thrash Metal, 38 comments

“Every 4 years or so, Germany’s rabid blackened thrash slime eaters Desaster drop a new album on the revolted masses. Their berserk take on speed borrows greatly from the original Destruction EP, Sentence of Death, and they festoon the unhinged recklessness with blackened blisters and classic heavy metal influences for a sound that slaps, slices, and shits on your floor. It’s not subtle, nor is it “thinking man’s music.” Instead, it murders the thinking part of your brain and activates the most base and perverse instincts.” Death by disaster.

No Shelter. – Remission/Resolve Review

By Lavender Larcenist on August 20, 2025 in Reviews, Blackened Death Metal, Hardcore, 26 comments

“No Shelter. is a five-piece from Münster that peddles in D-beat brutalization with a heaping helping of Boss HM-2 pedal worship. Its latest, Remission/Resolve, is a bass-driven freight train of Swedish-coded blackened death metal, crust punk, and hardcore, conjuring direct comparisons to genre stalwarts like Nails, Rotten Sound, and Trap Them. Can No Shelter. stand in the spotlight with some of the most vicious rippers around, or is it flying too close to the sun, wax wings ready to send it to hell with the rest of the copycats?” Entombing the unsheltered masses.

Sodom – The Arsonist Review

By Steel Druhm on June 25, 2025 in Reviews, Thrash Metal, 78 comments

“Sodom forged a lengthy career for themselves as the bestial goon of the “Big Three” of Germanic thrash, and you could always count on them to scuzz the joint up with caveman shock trooper ugliness. I’ve regularly used them as an example of a band that refused to evolve or embrace trends, but they have grown modestly since their thuggish beginnings.” March of the Sodomites.

Warfield – With the Old Breed Review

By Steel Druhm on April 3, 2025 in Reviews, Black Metal, Thrash Metal, 46 comments

“German thrashers Warfield created a bit of buzz for themselves with their 2018 debut Wrecking Command, borrowing extensively from famous forefathers like Sodom and Kreator and infusing the speed with traces of black metal fury. It was a spirited and venomous slab of reckless haste with enough modern-day appeal to escape the sucking vortex of niche re-thrash. After 4-plus years, we get With the Old Breed and Warfield are older, wiser, and a bit less rough and raw.” Bred for olde wars.