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El Colosso – Forgotten Ancestors

Markus Saastamoinen – Puzzle Pieces

Malcura – Malcura II

Plini – Impulse Voices

AC/DC – Power Up

Depravity – Grand Malevolence

Eternum – Alone But For The Breath Of Beasts

Chaos Divine – Legacies

Absent Hearts – The Peak and the Valley

Vanishing Point – Dead Elysium

Hammers – Kicking Goals

Diamond Construct – DCX2

Figures – Operating in Unsafe Mode

Abramelin – Never Enough Snuff

Warnings – Event Horizon

Wardaemonic – Acts of Repentance

Xenobiotic – Mordrake

I Built the Sky – The Zenith Rise

The Molotov – Resistentia

Code Atlantic – Eclipses

9 Foot Super Soldier – Party Violence

LORD – Fallen Idols

Envenomed – The Walking Shred

All is Violent – Cartographers of Human Purpose

Northlane – Alien

Disentomb – The Decaying Light

Tempest Rising – Alter Ego

Drown this City – Alpha // Survivor

Avandra – Descender

Stardrifter – Volume 0

Illimitable Dolor – Leaden Light

Superheist – Sidewinder

The Omnific – The Mind’s Eye

Stephen Taranto – Permanence

Trancestate – Planetary Awakening

Orpheus Omega – Wear Your Sins

Hybrid Nightmares – Obelisk

Myoora – Moon Grotto

M0DAL1TY – Synthes1s

Audio Reign – Audio Reign

Circles – The Last One

Psycroptic – As The Kingdom Drowns

Triple Kill – Age Of Rebellion

High Tension – Purge

The Eternal – Waiting For The Endless Dawn

Hadal Maw – Charlatan

Naberus – Hollow

Plini – Sunhead

Dead City Ruins – Never Say Die

Parkway Drive – Reverence

9 Foot Super Solider – Cheap Beer and $2 Thongs

Espionage – Digital Dystopia

Artemis Blade – As Above…So Below

Among Them – Coming and Going

Hidden Intent – Fear, Prey, Demise

Zeolite – Sermon Mortis

Deadspace – The Liquid Sky

Thornhill – Butterfly

Depravity – Evil Upheaval

Direblaze – Smelted, Reformed and Doomed EP

Lord – Live at Progpower USA

Deströyer 666 – Call Of The Wild

Scoredatura – Honest Oblivion

Rise of Avernus – Eigengrau

Mental Cavity – Aneurysm

Meliorist – ii

Ne Obliviscaris – Urn

Kettlespider – Kettlespider

Earth Rot – Renascentia

King Parrot – Ulgy Produce

Motherslug – The Electric Dunes of Titan

Mason – Impervious

Cursed Earth – Cycles of Grief: The Complete Collection

Shadowqueen – Living Madness

Toehider – Good

Claim The Throne – On Desolate Plains

Balloons Kill Babies – Prodromal

Thy Art Is Murder – Dear Desolation

Scaphis – Rituals of Torture and Death

Make Them Suffer – Worlds Apart

Nucleust – Terra Cerebral

Battlegrave – To Hell With War

Solum – Enthrall

Figures – Chronos

Dead Letter Circus – The Endless Mile

In Hearts Wake – Ark

Voyager – Ghost Mile

El Colosso – Pathways

Branch Arterial – Beyond the Border

The Furor – Cavalries of the Occult

Depravity – Reign Of The Depraved

Taberah – Sinner’s Lament

Damnations Day – A World Awakens

Harlott – Extinction

Northlane – Mesmer

Desecrator – To The Gallows

Vanishing Point – Tangled in a Dream (Reissue)

Copia – Epoch

Hadal Maw – Olm

Ocean Grove – The Rhapsody Tapes

Dyssidia – Of Delight And Despair

Boris the Blade – Warpath

Stormtide – Wrath Of An Empire

Ice on Mercury – Blind Leading the Lifeless EP

Figures – Figures EP

Airbourne – Breakin’ Outta Hell

Intercranial Tremors – Rebirth

Figures – Figures EP

Limb From Limb – Emet

Nucleust – Resistivity

KING – Reclaim the Darkness

Toxicon – Purge

Espionage – Wings Of Thunder

Be’lakor – Vessels

Oligarch – Hypocrisy Oath

Chronolyth – Atrophy

Subterranean Disposition – Contagiuum and the Landscapes of Failure

Taberah – Welcome To The Crypt

Greytomb – A Perpetual Descent

Daemon Foetal Harvest – Beasts of Tribulation

Remission – Genocide

Omnipresence – Thanatophobia

The Levitation Hex – Cohesion

Earth Rot – Chthonian Virtues

Catacombs – Sin

The Loom of Time – NihilReich

Cursed Earth – Enslaved by the Insignificant

The Arbitrary Method – Augmentation

Order of the Oblique – Layers

Vipassi – Śūnyatā

Envenomed – Reckoning

Lagerstein – All For Rum & Rum For All

Cryptic Abyss – Feed ‘Em To The Sea

Polaris – The Guilt and the Grief

Roundtable – Dread Marches Under Blood Regalia

Annihilist – Vol. 1

Decryptus – The Necrotic Design

In Malice’s Wake – Light Upon The Wicked

Dead River Runs Dry – Hierophants of the Storm

Horizons Edge – Heavenly Realms

Serious Beak – Ankaa

Parkway Drive – Ire

Whoretopsy – Never Tear Us Apart

Silent Knight – Conquer & Command

Teramaze – Her Halo

Exposed – Exposed

Caligula’s Horse – Bloom

Fuck The Fitzroy Doom Scene – Facing The Ruin

Voros – Diseased Deity

Demonhead – Bring on the Doom

Harlott – Proliferation

Buried In Verona – Vultures Above, Lions Below

Nemesium – Sentient Cognizance

Stories – The Youth To Become

Storm Messenger – Brace for the Storm

Northlane – Node

Majora – Iridescent

Hybrid Nightmares – The Third Age

Dumbsaint – Panorama, in ten pieces

Grimalkin – Grimalkin

Orpheus Omega – Partum Vita Mortem

In Hearts Wake – Skydancer

Arcane – Known/Learned

Hybrid Nightmares – The Second Age

King Parrot – Dead Set

As Paradise Falls – Save Yourself

Dire Wolf – Tooth & Nail

Space Bong – In Doom We Crust

Sewercide – Severing the Mortal Coil

Myridian – We, The Forlon

Sanzu – Painless

Rise of Avernus – Dramatis Personæ

Chaos Divine – Colliding Skies

Feed Her To The Sharks – Fortitude

Hybrid Nightmares – The First Age

Psycroptic – Psycroptic

Shellfin – Cities Without Names

Decimatus – Catalyst For Rage

Tempest Rising – Transmutation

Daemon Pyre – Daemon Pyre

Divine Ascension – Liberator

Colossvs – Unholy

Mark Kelson – Resurgence

Apparitions of Null – Kaleidoscopes

Silent Knight – Power Metal Supreme

Aversions Crown – Tyrant

Ne Obliviscaris – Citadel

Alkira – Juggernaut

Earth Rot – Follow The Black Smoke

Defamer – Monolith of Filth

Fat Guy Wears Mystic Wolf Shirt / Jxckxlz – Split EP

Dot The Eyes – Eden’s Brigade EP

The Matador – Destroyer

Hadal Maw – Senium

Troldhaugen – Obzkure Anekdotez For Maniakal Massez

MetalStorm – I: Saeculum Obscurum

Abraxxas – Bitter Harvest

Dejan Toracki – Atmospheric Disturbance

Hemina – Nebulae

Toehider – What Kind Of Creature Am I?

Super Fun Happy Slide – Drop Your Pants & Grind

Diamond Noir – Monsters

The Autumn League – Concept of Irony

Athenas Wake – Contemplation

Voros – The Sky Burial EP’s

Conscious Control – Feed the Machine

Darker Half – Never Surrender

Dead City Ruins – Dead City Ruins

Bateman – SMUT

Love Cream – First Taste

Cryptic Abyss – Into the Abyss

Crimsonfire – Arise To Chaos

Adamus Exul – Arsenic Idols

Dr. Colossus – IV

Amelus – Amelus (Demo)

The Arbiter – Cult

The Kremlings – Whole Earth Cleansing

The Amity Affliction – Let the Ocean Take Me

Envenomed – Evil Unseen

Copia – Eleven : Eleven

Hybrid Nightmares – Hybrid Nightmares

Eye of the Enemy – The Vengeance Paradox

Boris The Blade – The Human Hive

Arcadia – In Ruins

Teramaze – Esoteric Symbolism

Dead Kelly – Sons of the Southern Cross

Bane of Bedlam – Monument of Horror

Vanishing Point – Distant Is The Sun

Truth Corroded – The Saviours Slain

SteelSwarm – The Ultimate Offering

Abramelin – Transgressing the Afterlife (The Complete Recordings)

Trigger – Machina

Aeon of Horus – Existence

Scar the Surface – From the Shadows to the Fire

The Ophidian Ascension – Ire

Fenrir – Fenrir

Taberah – Necromancer

Desecrator – Down to Hell

James Norbert Ivanyi – Aphasia

Mason – Warhead

Ayreon – The Theory of Everything

Circles – Infinitas

Harlott – Origin

Malakyte – Human Resonance

Mystery – 2013

Eritherium – Ephemeral

Bane of Winterstorm – The Last Sons of Perilyn

Rise of Avernus – L’appel du vide

Caligula’s Horse – The Tide, The Thief & River’s End

Septerrus – Tacit

Naberus – Reveries

House of Thumbs – Home

Flaming Wrekage – Catharsis

The Eternal – When The Circle of Light Begins to Fade

Perseverance – Silence, Forever; Endless

Quiet Child – The Coming Storm

DeathFuckingCunt – Ungodly Violation

I Am Duckeye – Husband

Sanctium – Sanctium

Red Bee – Ictus

Dream On, Dreamer – Loveless

SEIMS – SEIMS

Silent Knight – Masterplan

Fat Guy Wears Mystic Wolf Shirt – Dys/Closure

Metal – Proving Our Mettle

Riff Fist – Fistful of Riffs

The Boy Who Spoke Clouds – Secret Corridors Lay Outside The Walls

A Breach Of Silence – Dead Or Alive

Whisky Smile – The Eagle Has Landed

Airbourne – Black Dog Barking

Rainshadow – Cold Years

Feed Her To The Sharks – Savage Seas

Cauldron Black Ram – The Poisoner

Atra Vetosus – Voices From The Eternal Night

Lord – Digital Lies

Advent Sorrow – Before The Dimming Light

Orpheus Omega – ResIllusion

Vessel – Introspective

Witchgrinder – The Demon Calling

Lomera – Lomera II

Frankenbok – Cheers, Beers & Beards!

Fuck I’m Dead – Another Gory Mess

Portal – Vexovoid

Myridian – Under The Fading Light

The Levitation Hex – The Levitation Hex

Yanomamo – Maggot

Myraeth – In Glorious Death

The Amenta – Flesh Is Heir

Kunvuk – Consume Rapture

Agave Maize – Thrones of Isolation

The Kill – Make ‘Em Suffer

Encircling Sea – A Forgotten Land

Fear The Setting Sun – Of Slumber Woods Once Spoke

DEAD – Idiots

Internal Nightmare – Chaos Reborn

Not Like Horse – Not Like Horse

Ruins – Place of No Pity

Whoretopsy – Isn’t She Lovely

Internal Harvest – Ethereal Struggle

Battle Pope vs Jesus Christ Posse (split)

The Reverend Jesse Custer – Perpetual Victim

Create|Destroy – Organic Perception

Breaking Orbit – The Time Traveller

No Anchor – Golden Bridge

Octanic – Aeternus Imperium

We Lost the Sea – The Quietest Place on Earth

Golden Bats – Golden Bats III

King Parrot – Bite Your Head Off

Arcadia/Bury The Fallen – Worlds Collide

Subterranean Disposition – Subterranean Disposition

Drowning Horse – Drowning Horse

Gods of Eden – Gods of Eden

Dining In Tuscany – 1556

thedowngoing – ATHOUSANDYEARSOFDARKNESS

Anubis – A Tower Of Silence

Whoretopsy – They Did Unspeakable Things

Psychonaut – Shock ’em Dead

Vanity Riots – Vanity Riots

Blackened – The Sense In Violence

A Million Dead Birds Laughing – Xen

Adrift For Days – Come Midnight…

Our Last Enemy – Wolves of Perigord

Black Trillium – The Locked Woods

ISAW – The Identity

Beyond Terror Beyond Grace – Nadir

The Veil – Ghosts of Memory

Ne Obliviscaris – Portal Of I

Okera – A Beautiful Dystopia

Dumbsaint – Something That You Feel Will Find Its Own Form

My Dynamite – My Dynamite

Party Vibez – Legends of Gnarlia

Her Tortured Embrace – A Car Crash Fascination

Noûs – Eobiont

Aversions Crown – Servitude

Rainshadow – Waters Imperium

The Mung – Showering in Shit

Level Seven – Let It Out

Ashes of December – Dying Is For Fools

Paradigm – Mind Is Key

Randomorder – The Forbidden Knowledge

Katabasis – Katabasis

Taberah – The Light of Which I Dream

Serious Beak – Huxwhukw

DEAD – THUNDAAAAAH!

Alarum – Natural Causes

Chaos Divine – The Human Connection

Boris The Blade – Tides of Damnation

pointbreakdown – Utah

Caprycon – Dark Earth

Desecrator – Live Til Death

4arm – Submission for Liberty

No Anchor – Real Pain Supernova

Vespers Descent – Fragments of the Forgotten

Hazmat – Hazmat

When Day Descends – When Day Descends

Halfmast – Death of Ignorance

Reaper’s Riddle – A Touch of Death

Hemina – Synthetic

Electrik Dynamite – Hair.Denim.Sex.Metal

Red Descending – Kingdoms

Verses All – Embrace the Upgrade

Ouroboros – Glorification of a Myth

Night Hag – Gilded Age

In Malice’s Wake – The Thrashening

Avarin – Requiem

Synthetic Breed – Perpetual Motion Machine

Orpheus – Bleed The Way

Ignite the Ibex – Ignite the Ibex

Tomb of Doom – Digust

Make Them Suffer – Lord of Woe

Widow the Sea – Novella of the Ocean

The Eternal – Under a New Sun

Signal The Firing Squad – Earth Harvest

Shellfin – Secondhand Family

Thy Art Is Murder – The Adversary

Shihad – Ignite

Anubis – 230503

Claim the Throne – Triumph and Beyond

Contrive – The Internal Dialogue

Anythium – The Awakening

Adrift For Days – The Lunar Maria

The Eternal – Under a New Sun (single)

Born From the Ashes- Born From the Ashes

The Red Shore – The Avarice of Man

The Mung – The Splatter Sessions

Elysian – Self-Titled EP

Internal Nightmare – Segregation

BerserkerfoX – History.Altar.Ashes

Myraeth – Retribution

Nekrofeist – Nekrofeist EP

Quandary – Ready to Fail

Vendetta of the Fallen – The 13th Day

Hemina – As We Know It

Eye of the Enemy – Weight of Redemption

Bleakwood – Blood & Faith 7"

Buried in Verona – Saturday Night Sever

Wardom – When Darkness Reigns

Dead Letter Opener – Lumen

Maniacal – Buried In Hell

Satoria – Where Loyalties Lie

Nyvosus – The Rebirth EP

Anno Domini – Atrocities

Spire – Spire EP

Mhorgl – Antinomian

Dawn of Retribution – The Plan To End Humanity

Sobrusion – Maieutics

Black Majesty – In Your Honour

Stonecutters – Ritualistic

Demonhead – Demonology 101

Shrapnel – Hellbound

Terra Australis – Anthem for a Dying Angel

Dyscord – Tirades

Beyond Terror Beyond Grace – Our Ashes Built Mountains

Disentomb – Promo 2009

Demonium – Horrid Engorgement

Scar the Surface – Take Your Fight To The Sun

4arm – The Empires of Death

Taberah – Live…ish!

Mortification – 20 Years in the Underground

House of Thumbs – Crossing the Rubicon

Airbourne – No Guts. No Glory

Paradigm – Symmetry (In)Sanity

Aeternitas – Holocaust of Reason

Daysend – Within The Eye Of Chaos

Alice Through The Windshield Glass – Keep Your Eyes On The Road

Lacrymae – The Hallowed Design

Kaamora – Lambs To The Slaughter

Terra Australis – Premonition of Life Defiled

Untruth – Act 1: The Absence of Beacons

Cuntscrape – Papsmear Campaign

Orpheus – So It Begins…

Anarion – Beneath It All

Requiem Of The Damned – Type I

Various Artists – The Euphony Fusion III

Internal Nightmare – Demo 2009

Arcane – Chronicles of the Waking Dream

Ayera – The Chaos Rebellion

Ill Omen – Demo 2009

Astral Winter – Illustrations of Death

Voyager – I am the reVolution

Skintilla – King of Kings

Black Asylum – Anthem Of Order

Sydonia – Given to Destroyers

Templestowe – Cimmerian

Aronora – Aronora

BeserkerfoX – King Kong on Crack EP

Vahrzaw – Defiant

Lord – Set In Stone

Claim The Throne – Aletales

Nazxul – Iconoclast

sleepmakeswaves/Tangled Thoughts of Leaving – Split EP

Nexus – The Paradise Complex

Cuntscrape/Deathfuckingcunt – Splitroast

The Red Shore – Lost Verses

Be'lakor – Stone's Reach

Karnivool – Sound Awake

Darker Half – Duality

Contrive – The Meaning Unseen

The Omen – The Omen

Envenomed – Envenomed EP

Dreadnaught – D->0

Hatchet Dawn – Faith In Chaos

Ink – Black Water Reign

Nemesphyxia – The Calm Before The Carnage

Syko Sapian – Humanity Lost EP

Bane of Isildur – Stormlords

Eyefear – The Unseen

Ironwood – :Fire:Water:Ash:

Rainshadow – End Songs

Toehider – Toehider EP

Black Orchid – Inertia

AC/DC – Black Ice

Vrag – Black Plague of Human Extinction

Synthetic Breed – Catatonic

The Berzerker – The Reawakening

Defamer – Chasm

Gallows for Grace – A Process for the Destruction of Tomorrow (EP)

In Malice's Wake – Eternal Nightfall

Ne Obliviscaris – The Aurora Veil

Empyrean – Quietus

Alarum – Eventuality

The Butterfly Effect – Final Conversations of Kings

Cog – Just Visiting

The Eternal – Kartika

Unclechunk – Join The Dots EP

Paindivision – One Path

Black Asylum – Truths of the Blood

Claim The Throne – Only The Brave Return

Ironwood – Ironwood EP

Monoliyth – Imminent Demise

Buried In Verona – Circle The Dead

Lord – Hear No Evil EP

The Amenta – n0n

Sword Toward Self – Dissolution Mantras EP

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Album Reviews

El Colosso – Forgotten Ancestors
Another heavily underrated local act, this Melbourne band has...
- Posted 3 years ago
Markus Saastamoinen – Puzzle Pieces
A little background on Markus Saastomoinen: he is a...
- Posted 3 years ago
Malcura – Malcura II
Wow, talk about coining a sub-genre. Or at least...
- Posted 3 years ago
Plini – Impulse Voices
The new album from Sydney instrumental guitar prodigy Plini...
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