Faithxtractor

Shed the Skin – The Carnage Cast Shadows Review

By Mark Z. on May 20, 2025 in Reviews, Death Metal, 18 comments

“I don’t know how some people can keep creating art for so long. Somehow fucking Clint Eastwood is still making movies, and that guy looked ancient when Gran Torino came out in 2008. Shed the Skin aren’t as old as Clint, but they’ve got a wealth of experience nonetheless. Formed in 2011 as a tribute to the long-defunct Ohio death metal group Blood of Christ, this sort-of-supergroup are comprised of several extreme metal veterans, On their previous four albums, the group offered up fun, no-nonsense death metal characterized by a sense of frenetic melody.” The sharpest tool in the skin shed?

Record(s) o’ the Month – January 2025

By Angry Metal Guy on March 8, 2025 in Blog Posts, Record o' the Month, 130 comments

The tradition at Angry Metal Guy has been the strong start to the year where, like so many people with New Year’s Resolutions, you stick with ’em for a while, and then they taper off, sliding later and later as the year goes on. But this year, even the dopamine kick of listing everything in some kind of ranking order and getting lots of positive feedback from readers didn’t help me shake my funk. Yet, I have dragged myself out of funk in order to make a minimal effort for the greater good. APPRECIATE ME!

Faithxtractor – Loathing and the Noose Review

By Maddog on January 10, 2025 in Reviews, Blackened Death Metal, Death Doom, Death Metal, 78 comments

“Faithxtractor’s second biggest musical contribution was the comment section from their last album. With a Farmers Only joke, a thread about metalcore album names, and a story that must be read to be believed, the birdbrain community’s mockery of Faithxtractor’s name has left me giggling for two years. Of course, the band’s biggest contribution was 2023’s Contempt for a Failed Dimension itself. Perhaps my favorite frill-free death metal record in recent memory, Faithxtractor’s fourth full-length dealt in riffs and also riffs.” Tractor pulling may cause injury.

Thus Spoke and Maddog’s Top Ten(ish) of 2023

By Thus Spoke on December 27, 2023 in Blog Posts, Lists, 85 comments

Listurnalia23 rolls on with Thus Spoke and Maddog’s Top 10(ish) Records o’ the Year.

Faithxtractor – Contempt for a Failed Dimension Review

By Maddog on January 23, 2023 in Reviews, Death Metal, 64 comments

“Death metal was my first love. It began with a steamy night with Morbid Angel’s Domination during my freshman year of high school. Lust blossomed into torrid love, as I violently consumed everything the first decade of death metal had to offer. In recent years, something changed. The fire of my passion flickered as I watched the wrinkles form on old-school death metal’s face.” Death and rebirth of the fanboy.

Mark Z.’s and L. Saunders’ Top Ten of 2018

By Mark Z. on December 22, 2018 in 2018, Blog Posts, Lists, 126 comments

More lists for the list machine! The men who unwisely go by their real names, Mark Z. and L. Saunders boldly proclaim their best albums of 2018.

Shed the Skin – We of Scorn Review

By Roquentin on August 8, 2018 in 2018, American Metal, Death Metal, Hells Headbangers Records, Melodic Death Metal, Reviews, Death Metal, Melodic Death Metal, 77 comments

“The music on the sophomore release by Cleveland’s death metal quintet Shed the Skin is deceptively simple. In its core, the band’s possessed, groove-laden death metal is propelled steadily forward at medium pace and with a certain brutality characteristic for Hells Headbangers’ roster. Around these straightforward and conventional structures, floating somewhere between thrash, old school, and modern death metal, the group cultivates an abundance of flair and an aura of tight frolic.” Frolic through the grave park.