Ever since Gorguts spawned its unorthodox soul crushing "Obscura" onto the world in 1998 there has been an arms race of sort by adventurous tech death metal bands to take such otherworldly atonal entanglements of sonic terror ever further down a rabbit hole so riddled with avant-garde aggressiveness and tortuous labyrinthine nihilism that in comparison to established scenes of extreme metal, these new cutting edge wizards of convoluted complexity sounded like invading alien forces more than anything within the established metal universe…

Named after The Dark Tower series by Stephen King, Oklahoma City-based trio Dischordia have been quietly evolving their music over the last ten years. The early djent(ish) deathcore formula has gradually morphed into a hybrid output, more progressive and dissonant…

With Leiden, AETHEREUS brings to the table another dose of their unique and abstract approach to technical/progressive death metal. Beginning with a more conventionally melodic approach, this monster of an album descends deeper into a more dissonant soundand is a must listen for metal fans across the board…