technical death metal

Cannibal Corpse. It’s the name on everybody’s lips and t-shirt tonight at the Metro.

As a music critic, it’s a rare pleasure indeed when an album you weren’t expecting to like surprises you by being awesome.

Now this is what I needed to hear.

Playing extreme metal can be a very arduous pastime. There's a bloody lot of work involved for sometimes little to no reward.

Flesh of the Earth is a five piece technical death metal band hailing from Melbourne and their debut EP Nature's Reign is an impressive display of instrumen

There’s obviously something in the water in Canada. The amount of ground-breaking progressive bands hailing from the Canuck homeland is staggering.

I usually dislike live albums, but this is an exception and a surprise at same time.

The Faceless

This album should be the best album of 2012. It isn’t, just because I already elected (reviews ago) the last Borknagar album as such.

As a tired and jaded journo (musical and other) to hear something like Xen is akin to spotting a technicolour life raft after drifting in a grey ocean of 'same same'; I fucking love it.