Old School Death Metal
Riket - Avarter (Scarecrow Records)
Blimey, this is a swift flowing EP consisting of four tracks of old school death metal courtesy of Sweden's Riket.
Eternal Oblivion - Human Fields (Horror Pain Gore Death Productions)
I'm not going to draw this review out. Eternal Oblivion do a mighty fine job with their eight track Human Fields album.
Corpsessed- Abysmal Threshold (Dark Descent)
When one hears of a new band playing old-school death metal these days it's almost impossible not to think of that band aping the Sunlight Studios/Stockholm sound.
Death Karma – A Life not Worth Living (Iron Bonehead Productions)
It’s said that this band contains members of Cult of Fire but it’s, of course, unclear.
Tormented – Death Awaits (Listenable Records)
Tormented started out in 2008 with a record called Rotten Death which was praised in underground magazines as they state in their press release.
Deathronation – Exorchrism (Metalhit.com)
Deathronation is a Death Metal act from Nuremberg, who released two demos, and this release is a compilation of both of them.
Macabra - Blood-Nurtured Nature (Metalhit.com)
The old-schoolers are back to stay, there’s no way to deny it, and Mark Riddick (Grave Wax, Moonroot, The Soil Bleeds Black, Unburied, Equimanthorn – a