death metal
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Three decades into their career, Cannibal Corpse’s classic sound mostly remains intact and high impact.
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Undeath’s full-length debut is a solid death metal album whose greatest sin is sometimes succumbing to the genre’s basic tropes.
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As a Converge-affiliated deathcore supergroup, Umbra Vitae is maybe more exciting on paper than in execution.
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Black Curse displays great foundational elements on its debut album, but also runs short on ideas.
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Breakdowns galore on Knocked Loose’s death metal-infused sophomore album, though it’s sometimes hard to tell one from the next.
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Planetary Clairvoyance features more compositional versatility than its predecessor, but unfortunately a less impressive mix as well.
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Horrendous takes a mighty step forward with the visceral and multi-faceted compositions that make up Idol.
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I Loved You at Your Darkest is a solid blackened death metal album that’s occasionally marred by Behemoth overextending itself, or treading the water it waded with The Satanist.
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Plague Transmissions Vol. 1 is one of the ugliest and most standout death metal projects I’ve heard in a while.
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Horrifying! Portal’s Ion is one of the most dystopian and sound-rich technical death metal records of the decade.
