Death Metal Album Reviews
Every Death Metal record the editors have reviewed, scored out of ten.
42 reviews
7.0
Napalm Death
Words from the Exit Wound
Three rooms worth saving in a house the band was already leaving.
Gareth Llewellyn
Oct 26, 2026
7.5
Unleashed
The Hunt for White Christ
Thirteenth crossing, same oars, and eight songs still draw blood.
Rafael Quintero
Oct 26, 2026
6.5
Napalm Death
Leaders Not Followers
Six borrowed songs, and half of them come back sharper.
Gareth Llewellyn
Oct 25, 2026
7.5
Sepultura
The Mediator Between Head and Hands Must Be the Heart
A young drummer smashes the clock; the middle of the record keeps punching it.
Saint Sylveszter
Oct 25, 2026
8.5
Iotunn
Kinship
One voice carries the whole cycle; only the coda forgets to begin.
Julien Vasseur
Oct 25, 2026
7.5
Behemoth
XXX Years ov Blasphemy
Thirty years painted in three panels, for cameras and empty fields.
Eirik Solvang
Oct 25, 2026
8.0
Hypocrisy
A Taste of Extreme Divinity
A career's bones, exhumed and shelved in order, without a single new one.
Andrzej Sawicki
Oct 23, 2026
8.0
Dark Tranquillity
Where Death Is Most Alive
A wake for a doomed club, played loud enough to rouse its dead.
Rafael Quintero
Oct 23, 2026
8.0
Cradle of Filth
Existence Is Futile
The old score, played louder, in an opera house on fire.
Andrzej Sawicki
Oct 22, 2026
8.0
Deicide
Serpents of the Light
Thirty minutes of Tampa death metal with the hooks left in.
Rafael Quintero
Oct 19, 2026
7.5
God Dethroned
The Toxic Touch
The blasts were traded for songs, and the songs won.
Andrzej Sawicki
Oct 19, 2026
7.0
Darkthrone
Dark Thrones and Black Flags
Rough by choice, sharper than it pretends, and still half punk.
Eirik Solvang
Oct 19, 2026
7.5
Soilwork
Sworn to a Great Divide
A great voice inside a machine built to repeat itself.
Andrzej Sawicki
Oct 17, 2026
7.5
Soulfly
Ritual
Familiar groove, no surprises, and the pit still goes down.
Jonah Pike
Oct 17, 2026
7.5
Internal Bleeding
Settle All Scores
The old Long Island machine still flattens a room, just never surprises it.
Rafael Quintero
Oct 16, 2026
8.5
Epitaphe
III
Fifty four minutes cut from one block, the surface left rough
Andrzej Sawicki
Sep 15, 2026
8.5
Archgoat
Nightbringer, Lightbringer
The citadel breached from within, the relics kept, one song in the wrong place.
Andrzej Sawicki
Sep 14, 2026
7.5
Echoes of a Dying World
Revelations
A singer worth wading out for, on a wreck still settling into sand
Rafael Quintero
Sep 14, 2026
7.5
Vulgar Mephitis
From Dust
Extraordinary drumming, eight tight songs, and one experiment arriving far too late
Rafael Quintero
Sep 13, 2026
8.5
Green Carnation
A Dark Poem, Part III: The Messiah Complex
A final cadence worth the year of waiting, if you waited.
Julien Vasseur
Sep 12, 2026
7.5
Behemoth
I, Scvlptor
The new stone is good; there is simply not enough of it
Andrzej Sawicki
Sep 6, 2026
8.0
Gorod
The Ember Gone
Slower clockwork, sharper blades, and one long song too many.
Rafael Quintero
Sep 1, 2026
9.0
Death
Symbolic
The cleanest stone Chuck Schuldiner ever cut, and nearly every facet burns.
Rafael Quintero
Aug 28, 2026
9.0
Carcass
Heartwork
Goregrind's pathologists turned surgeons, and every incision still holds thirty years on
Andrzej Sawicki
Aug 21, 2026