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The dictionary defines "Execration" as “an angry denouncement or curse”, and the music is indeed both furious and cursed — but it’s also a completely wild and head-spinning ride.

Andy Synn puts the final nail in 2024's coffin with ten of the most infectious songs - ft. Ripped to Shreds, Peer Pressure, Resin Tomb, No Cure, Griffon, Aseethe, Caelestra, Lifesick, Phenocryst, and Tempestarii - which you might have missed!

"The overall message can be summed up as... be wary about things you read online that are designed to make you angry.” Wise words. Especially since DRUGS OF FAITH are already more than angry enough!

"Sure enough, this song is a big groove monster, anchored by a big rocking beat and a big throbbing bass. But it’s a vicious piece of work too, thanks to the gnashing beastliness of the vocals and the cold, feral, slashing pulse of the guitars."

Doom metal is what they have rendered, to be sure, but oh, the colors they have made… they remind us that not even the coldest sky is truly featureless and that beneath every sea is a turbulent power that won’t be still for long.

Though still drawing from the likes of Autopsy, Incantation, and Cianide, ACT OF IMPALEMENT‘s third album is a finely honed assault of bestial death metal, drawing more inspiration from the likes of Belgium’s Possession, Finland’s Belial, and Archgoat.

The end of another month means it's time for another edition of THE SYNN REPORT, which this time around dives into the deepest, darkest depth of Belarusian brutalisers RELICS OF HUMANITY. Recommended for fans of: Devourment, Disentomb, Disgorge

"It's almost impossible not to get swept up in the band's mesmerising sonic storytelling as they follow every twist and turn of Randolph Carter's journey through the dream-lands."

If you see people like these, your first impulse (a sensible one) would be to run first, ask questions later. And you absolutely should run, as fast as you can, but toward their music, not away from it.

The only review where you can find an indictment of modern pop music, an exploration of Billy Ocean's biggest hits, a small jab at life in suburbia, musings upon chain restaurants... only to finally discuss the music somewhat in the last two paragraphs.

Andy Synn's first "Best of British" of 2025 includes one of the most respected names in the UK Black Metal scene, one of the heaviest Metallic Hardcore albums you're going to hear all year, and a band tipped as "the next big thing" in Death Metal.

Andy Synn catches up with the latest release from a project we've been following for a while now, in the form of the new album from dynamic Doom-gaze chanteuse @shedfromthebody.

"True to the punk roots of their music, SPOILED (@GruesomeRecords) don’t waste time in “Zombie Hunters.” They turn the ignition, rev the engine, and then stomp on the gas, marauding through this track in little more than a minute of time."

"...[a] chaotically unpredictable, yet cleverly compelling, blend of moody, ambient minimalism and bombastic, metallic maximalism... which defies easy categorisation." FFO: Imperial Triumphant, Ingurgitating Oblivion, Oranssi Pazuzu, etc

"The album delves deep into the contrasts between the architects of faith and the consumed followers, revealing the dark interplay between belief, manipulation, and desperation."

"A world of sound characterized by both raw violence and intense rage... a reflection of human existence, full of contradictions, abysses, and an irrepressible longing for redemption."

"In all its phases, both soft and loud, gentle and hard, 'Desprins' is emotionally powerful, a wrestling with life’s unforgiving plagues that’s gripping, and I think won’t soon be forgotten."

From underground underdogs like SANZU and British bruisers like EMPLOYED TO SERVE and RANNOCH to living legends like GORGUTS, Andy Synn reveals some (but not all) of his most anticipated new albums to come in 2025.