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Dushkriti - Dushkriti
Bulldozer - The Day of Wrath
Bestial Summoning - The Dark War Has Begun

[Naraka]

Their Last Stop - s/t

[Cailleach]

Killer album.

Yes.


 It has been years since i listened to this band. I must go back and listen to Zyklon's debut too.

[Thorn]

Accept - Metal Heart 9/10
Hauled out after Pentagrime's midnight moving issues the other week. Strange band name Accept.
Right so what do we call ourselves?
I was thinking maybe...Angel Witch?
Oh that's pretty cool
Deathrow?
Not bad!
What about HELLoween?
Oh I see what you did there!
Accept?
Eh what..no..no...you've lost me now.

Deathstorm - Cascophonies 8.5/10
It seems we're awash with bands playing this style of uber aggressive thrash with gruff/growled vocals of late but I for one am feasting on 'em. These Austrians waste no time flaying flesh from bone (much like early Sadus) on this, their fifth one out on Dying Victims this year.

Atomic Aggressor - The Occult Forces 8/10
New one from the resurrected Chilean gods of deth and it's a ripper, honed to precision and tight as a gnat's chuff. If Altars of Madness is your poison ,check this out.

Vader Necropolis 8/10
Album number nine from 2009 incorporating more straight up HM influences into their meat and mash Death Metal, a lot of this is surprisingly mid tempo but they know how to write a hook and many of these tracks remain barbed in the brain days after spinning.

Teutonic Slaughter - Cheap Food 8/10
Funny thing how 'laughter' is only ever one little 's' away from 'slaughter'. No laughing matter here though as these boys absolutely do not fuck around when it comes to their belligerent Speed/Thrash. I'm sure that's the Polar Bear of Heavy Load's second album on the cover too. He gets around.

Iron Flame - World's To Conquer 8/10
I could never quite get with Hammerfall, the tunes were there but lacked any sort of gravitas and, well...it was all a bit twee ,mostly down to the irksome voice of Joachim Cans. Iron Flame address both these issues for me, very nice of them, and this new one is as good as any Trad. Metal I've heard this year, up there with the likes of Battleroar, Ravenspell and Triumpher.