We tend to focus on the Indy scene here at the Vault because it’s the one we know best, but that doesn’t mean that there aren’t killer bands from other parts of the state as well. One of those bands is Desekryptor, [...]
Blackened death metal. War metal. Bestial black metal. Whatever your preferred name for the subgenre, there’s certainly a lot of it out there these days. Unfortunately, a lot of it isn’t very good. Don’t get me wrong [...]
Gothenburg’s Ensnared have been around in one iteration or another since 2005, when they formed under the name Gravehammer, but Dysangelium will be the band’s first proper full-length, and their first new music of any [...]
Ascended Dead hail from sunny San Diego, but they sound more like they were vomited forth from the Hellmouth in Sunnydale. On their debut full-length Abhorrent Manifestation, the band offer up ten tracks of gnarly [...]
Metal is a culture that tends to reflect back on itself and never lose sight of previously popular elements. This is immediately apparent in the large number of bands releasing music today that still feature the [...]
Death metal can be a difficult genre to take on musically; There are endless possibilities for innovation and experimentation, and yet many bands can’t seem to avoid the pitfall of sounding generic and [...]
Maybe it’s just me, but it really seems like death metal has been enjoying something of a resurgence in the last couple of years. I’m not sure why that is—perhaps it’s a natural sort of course correction after the [...]
