Cannibal Corpse – Chaos Horrific (Metal Blade Records)
One of the premiere acts in the death metal genre, Cannibal Corpse didn’t neglect the time away from the stage when locked away working on their previous record Violence Unimagined from 2021. Instead, they...
Terra Builder – Solar Temple (Transcending Obscurity)
Who doesn’t love unfiltered aural onslaughts that overwhelm and leave complete annihilation in their wake? Swifties, perhaps? Pay no mind to that nonsense; what we have here may make their eardrums collapse like a...
Blackbriar – A Dark Euphony (Nuclear Blast)
Of all the acts that weren't getting signed over the last decade, Blackbriar certainly stood up as one of the most consistently headscratching. A beautiful, gothic-drenched symphony that dreamt up whimsical and haunting fairy...
ProgPower USA XXII – Day 1 – September 6, 2023 – Center Stage Theater, Atlanta, GA
If somehow you are unfamiliar with ProgPower USA, let me give you a quick rundown of this amazing festival. The United States is not really known for our metal festivals, but we do have...
Song Premiere: Terra Builder’s ‘Solar Temple’
Excitement abound with another exclusive song premier here on Dead Rhetoric! This time, we’ve got a fresh track from the debuting death/grind powerhouse Terra Builder titled “Solar Temple,” which is part of their soon...
Broken By the Scream – Whitewater Park (Tokuma Japan Communications)
One of the most intriguing oddities from the Japanese metal scene in the last decade, Broken by the Scream launched in 2016 and have three full-length albums to their credit, not to mention a...
Kerrigan – Bloodmoon (High Roller Records)
It’s always interesting to look at the origins of new bands, as they sprout up in so many different ways. In the case of German act Kerrigan, the duo behind the instruments/vocals already had...
Mercenary – Soundtrack for the End Times (NoiseArt Records)
Sometimes it takes a lot of patience to be a metal fan. Some bands may dole out new songs on the regular, but sometimes you might just have wait...and wait...and wait some more. Such...
Song Premiere: Dyssebeia’s ‘Sacrificed on the Threshold’
We’ve got a big song premiere that’ll take a lot of you fine folks pleasantly by surprise. Debuting exclusively at Dead Rhetoric is the latest song by the brand new Swiss progressive blackened melodic...
Farscape – Purged and Forgotten (Dying Victims Productions)
Ten years beyond this Brazilian quartet’s last studio outing, Farscape returns with the appropriately titled Purged and Forgotten as they probably seem like an outside, looking in underground act when it comes to the...