[Review] TRIA PRIMA - ‘Three Primes of Alchemy’ EP

[Review] TRIA PRIMA - ‘Three Primes of Alchemy’ EP

The lost arts of alchemy foretold the ability to meld metal, matter, elements and more in a carefully-prepared concoction. We can say much the same of Ukraine’s Tria Prima, whose Three Primes of Alchemy EP is combed over by fellow ISC staffer and honestly-probably-a-wizard-IRL, Dean. Check out the review, with further artist/album links available as well! Slava Ukraini.

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[Review] Drudkh - ‘Shadow Play’ LP.
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[Review] Drudkh - ‘Shadow Play’ LP.

Ukrainian atmospheric black metal veterans Drudkh offer their latest musical outing to the world, Shadow Play, released on March 21st via label Season of Mist. Check out ISC staffer Dean’s comprehensive review of this sojourn into their latest darkly aesthetic offering, as well as full-album and single streams, artist/label/album order links and more.

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[Heavy News] Avant-garde Death/Black Band FELGRAVE Premiere New Song at No Clean Singing.
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[Heavy News] Avant-garde Death/Black Band FELGRAVE Premiere New Song at No Clean Singing.

M.J Lupe, otherwise known in this auspice as Felgrave, has unleashed an absolute monster of dizzying, crushing avant-garde death/black metal with release of the 18-minute beast that is title track from upcoming LP Otherlike Darkness, out April 25th. A crushing sample of extreme metal’s exploratory periphery, you can check full details of the album, preorder link, artist links and more alongside the music video in this post!

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[Heavy News] Jazzgrind band BYONOISEGENERATOR come up with hugely-awaited new album ‘SUBNORMAL DIVES’!
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[Heavy News] Jazzgrind band BYONOISEGENERATOR come up with hugely-awaited new album ‘SUBNORMAL DIVES’!

[Heavy News] Transcending Obscurity Records reinforce the diversity of their extreme metal roster with this fantastically-bizarre (conceptually, visually and musically!) release in Subnormal Dives by jazz/math-death-grinders BYONOISEGENERATOR. With some stellar artwork by Dmitry Rogatnev, you can also find links to new singles, album preorder, artist links, album into and more right here!

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[Heavy News] ESCHATON: Tech-Death Feat. current/former members of OBSCURA, NECROPHAGIST, RETROMORPHOSIS, INANIMATE EXISTENCE
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[Heavy News] ESCHATON: Tech-Death Feat. current/former members of OBSCURA, NECROPHAGIST, RETROMORPHOSIS, INANIMATE EXISTENCE

One of many Heavy News greats for your Music Monday and beyond here at ISC - technical death metal all-star supergroup Eschaton, who have a new LP releasing May via Transcending Obscurity Records! Featuring members of Necrophagist, Inanimate Existence, Obscura and Retromorphosis, this skilled troupe have album info, preorder link, tracklist, merch, music videos for singles ‘Blood of The People’ and ‘Antimatter’ via the link!

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[Riff] #BSAS2024 - Brady's Top 20 Albums of, Part I + Honourable Mentions
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[Riff] #BSAS2024 - Brady's Top 20 Albums of, Part I + Honourable Mentions

Originally posted on our now-defunct website on 27.12.24, with the site going down a few days later (RIP). Check out, as part of the Behind Screen and Speaker series, Part 1 of my Top 20 Albums Of The Year list, plus some Honourable Mentions, plenty of artist and album links and more from a wide spread of bands and genres! Part 2 coming soon. - Brady

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[Review] Abduction - ‘Existentialismus’ LP.
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[Review] Abduction - ‘Existentialismus’ LP.

The UK has been gaining increasing notoriety of late when it comes to black metal, and albums such as Abduction’s Existentialismus provide solid examples of why attention should be paid. Follow ISC staffer Dean through a philosophical and comprehensive review of this equally heady and mind-bending 6-track LP via the link. Also included are artist links, music videos and more! Courtesy of Candlelight Records.

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[Heavy News] GRAVE INFESTATION Stream New Track - ‘Living Inhumation’ From ‘Carnage Gathers’ LP.
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[Heavy News] GRAVE INFESTATION Stream New Track - ‘Living Inhumation’ From ‘Carnage Gathers’ LP.

Quebecois death-metallers Grave Infestation have hurled a gnarly, nasty slice of rotten death metal at us from the cool regions of Canada. With upcoming LP Carnage Gathers dropping 28th Feb, they’ve provided a gore-soaked link to latest single ‘Living Inhumation’. You can check the link for album preorder links, streaming links, album/artist bio, tracklist etc. Bloodstained, filthy death-metal, old-school style.

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[Heavy News] New York Supergroup FLESHsPOIL Announce Latest LP ‘THE BEGINNING OF THE END’ For 28.03.25.
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[Heavy News] New York Supergroup FLESHsPOIL Announce Latest LP ‘THE BEGINNING OF THE END’ For 28.03.25.

Comprising membership of several mainstream and underground heroes in the US death metal scene, Troy (NY)-based trio Fleshpoil have announced a fierce blackened death metal debut in The Beginning And The End. The album features guests and contributions ranging from Arsis, Rwake and many more! Link contains details, as well as album preorder, Bandcamp profile etc.

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[Heavy News] GHOST BATH Announce New Album ROSE THORN NECKLACE Out On May 9TH May + Release Music Video For Title Track
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[Heavy News] GHOST BATH Announce New Album ROSE THORN NECKLACE Out On May 9TH May + Release Music Video For Title Track

One-man wanderer above the sea of depressive/atmospheric black metal, solo artist Dennis Mikula (Nameless) of Ghost Bath has returned with news of a new LP in Rose Thorn Necklace, which drops 9th May 2025, via Nuclear Blast. You can check out the full details, track-list, latest single/music clip premiere, album order links and much more via our Heavy News article, for #MusicMondays at ISC.

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[Archive Review] Nest - ‘Metempsychosis’ LP.
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[Archive Review] Nest - ‘Metempsychosis’ LP.

This post has been through the wringer! Originally posted to Overdrive Music Magazine in 2019 (many thanks to Sebastian for permission to repost) in my time as Senior Contributor, it then made it onto our old blog in December ‘24 - right as our previous website met its’ demise. This is one well worth revisiting, however, as Nest’s bludgeoning LP Metempsychosis is an abrasive, expansive sludge/death metal bruiser that clearly stood the test of time.

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[Heavy News] XOTH Announces U.S. West Coast Tour, Launching April 4th!
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[Heavy News] XOTH Announces U.S. West Coast Tour, Launching April 4th!

Seattle (WA) - Death/thrash/black metal futurists, XOTH, are thrilled to announce their U.S. West Coast Tour, beginning on Friday, April 4th in Tacoma, WA, where the band will share the stage with the legendary 3 Inches of Blood. Along the way, XOTH will join forces with a host of killer bands, including Starcourt, Street Cleaner, and Upon Stone. Check the link for you lucky-ducks in the US - full tour dates and much more!

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[Heavy News] BEHEMOTH Unveils Video For Title Track Of New Album ‘THE SHIT OV GOD’
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[Heavy News] BEHEMOTH Unveils Video For Title Track Of New Album ‘THE SHIT OV GOD’

Extreme metal giants BEHEMOTH have revealed the title, cover art and release date of their upcoming new opus, The Shit Ov God, which is due to be released on May 9th via Nuclear Blast Records. Alongside the title track, which is streaming now, an opulent music video. Check the link for the clip, relevant artist links, additional album details and more! Horns = raised.

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[Archive] ISC Podcast Ep. 32 - Feral ‘To USurp The Thrones’ & RVVKVS ‘Antithesis Of Prosperity’ LP REVIEWS.
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[Archive] ISC Podcast Ep. 32 - Feral ‘To USurp The Thrones’ & RVVKVS ‘Antithesis Of Prosperity’ LP REVIEWS.

Exhumed from the back-end of our old, dead website, which carked it suddenly on NYE 2024 (RIP), here’s a double-hitter - two full album reviews, in both blog and podcast formats! That’s right, it’s a stacked two-fer with a heavy analysis of both Swedish death-metallers Feral and their 2024 LP To Usurp The The Thrones, as well as New Zealands’ finest grinders Rvvkvs with their LP, Antithesis of Prosperity.

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[Heavy News] Turkish blackened death metal band SHRINE OF DENIAL unveil debut full length.
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[Heavy News] Turkish blackened death metal band SHRINE OF DENIAL unveil debut full length.

Quoting label Transcending Obscurity: “Shrine of Denial are Turkey's best kept secret. They're blending styles to create beautifully structured songs that are both intense and memorable. After releasing albums by Serpent of Old and Carnophage from Turkey, we're pleased to work with newcomers Shrine of Denial for their debut release.” Check the link for album preorder, singles, cool merch and much more! Keeping it #heavynews for #musicmonday at ISC.

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[Archive] Review of Februus’ 2024 LP, ‘Surveillance Orgy’.
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[Archive] Review of Februus’ 2024 LP, ‘Surveillance Orgy’.

Another archival review painfully extracted from the carcass of our old website (RIP). In this review, Hamza tackles something a little more on the heavier end of his metal-listening wheelhouse in progressive death metallers Februus and their 2024 album, Surveillance Orgy. The album is out now on Transcending Obscurity Records; check link for album stream, Bandcamp links and more!

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[Review:] Nadir - Extinction Rituals LP (03.05.23)
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[Review:] Nadir - Extinction Rituals LP (03.05.23)

And another in the line-up of our archival posts, extracted from the data retrieved from our sadly now-defunct corpse of an old site (RIP isc.com NYE 2024). This represents one of the earliest album reviews conducted by site owner Brady in Nadir’s excellent black-thrash/metallic-hardcore bruiser of an LP, Extinction Rituals. Links to artist profiles to grab the now-released album within. Check it out!

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Gig Review, Pt. 2: – The New Dead Festival XII, 15.04.23 @ Lion Arts, Adelaide.
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Gig Review, Pt. 2: – The New Dead Festival XII, 15.04.23 @ Lion Arts, Adelaide.

Originally posted on our sadly as-of-NYE-2024-dead-AF previous website. RIP. This is Part 2 of the also-sadly-defunct New Dead Festival in Adelaide, Australia on the 15th of April in 2023. Check our site for Pt. 1. Bands reviewed here: Disentomb, Butcher ABC, Misery, Denouncement Pyre, Hexis, Altars, Alarum, KILAT, Remission and Flaming Wreckage.

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