Riff Score: 8.5/10

Album: …Grey Heaven Fall
Label: Grailight Productions

Riff Score: 7.5/10

Album: When All Life Ends
Label: Cyclone Empire

Riff Score: 9.0/10

Album: The Barghest O’ Whitby
Label: Peaceville Records

Riff Score: 7.5/10

Album: Carbon-Based Anatomy
Label: Season Of Mist

Riff Score: 9.5/10

Album: Paragon of Dissonance
Label: Season Of Mist

Riff Score: 7.5/10

Album: Overcoming Anger
Label: Self-released

Riff Score: 8.5/10

Album: One For Sorrow
Label: Century Media

Riff Score: 3.0/10

Album: Burn This World
Label: Earache Records

Riff Score: 9.0/10

Album: Until Fear No Longer Defines Us
Label: Season Of Mist

Riff Score: 8.0/10

Album: Five Serpent’s Teeth
Label: Earache Records

Riff Score: 7.5/10

Album: Problems To The Answer
Label: Earache Records

Riff Score: 2.0/10

Album: Illud Divinum Insanus
Label: Season Of Mist

Album: In The Flesh Label: Season Of Mist Tracks: 9 Release Date: May 16th Lenght: 29′ 56″   Riff Score: 7.5/10   Nader Sadek is a visual artist that’s known for his collaboration with Mayhem and Sunn O))) that now ventures off into the music world even deeper with his album, In The Flesh. His demented mind provides for the concept and names like Flo Mounier, Rune Eriksen and Steve Tucker provide for the aural assault. Interested? This is a strange project from a strange man. Nader Sadek is known for his twisted mind and the way he brings nightmares into physical form. Now this same guy wanted to make a death metal album so you can just imagine how that should sound. Surrounding himself by such talented musicians makes his task seem much easier, but as we all know talent isn’t everything as you need to put some soul and thought on songwriting. First let’s talk about the concept of this album. Using the extraction of petroleum as an analogy for humanity’s greed and self-destructive patterns, Nader sets the stage for a conceptual album that centres on those same thoughts. How far can we go and how much can we destroy in the name of money? The cover art surely impresses as one would expect and the mix of organic and inorganic, alien and human, plant and animal makes for a great album cover. H. R. Giger is the name that comes to mind. Now onto the music itself, this album is actually pretty short, clocking under thirty minutes and having one intro and two interludes which makes for only six actual songs. And what better place to start than “Petrophilia” with its blackened riff bursting open accompanied by Flo’s brutal drumming. The...

Riff Score: 8.0/10

Album: Infektion 1813
Label: Season Of Mist

Riff Score: 6.0/10

Album: Isolated
Label: Earache Records

Riff Score: 4.0/10

Album: Khaos Legions
Label: Century Media