All Pigs Must Die - God is War

Full Length, 2011, Southern Lord

1. Death Dealer

2. Pulverization

3. Sacrosanct

4. God is War

5. The Blessed Void

6. Third World Genocide

7. Extinction is Ours

8. Sadistic Vindicator

APMD may be a hardcore super-group, of sorts, but any preconceptions based on its members bands (Converge, The Hope Conspiracy, Bloodhorse) should be avoided. What we have here is crusty D-beat hardcore meets Entombed's buzz saw death metal. The lyrics deal with war and religion as a cause thereof whilst the music attempts to pummel the listener into submission. Throw in some suitably offensive artwork and you have an album that is well worth checking out. Play Loud.

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Rotten Sound - Exit

Album, 2005, Spinefarm

1. Exit

2. Burden

3. Sell Your Soul

4. V.S.A.

5. Follow

6. Maggots

7. Slave

8. Mass Suicide

9. Soil

10. Fail to Fall

11. Greed

12. Slay

13. Western Cancer

14. Nation

15. Havoc

16.Traitor

17. XXI

18. The Weak

As the album cover suggests, this is the aural equivalent of taking a shotgun blast to the face. Clocking in at just under half an hour, the tracks are typically short (about 1 to 2 minutes each) and intense slabs of grind core. Catchy riffs, relentless drumming and an excellent vocal performance result in this being an essential album in any grind collection, or any extreme metal collection for that matter.

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Hail of Bullets - On Divine Winds

Album, 2010, Metal Blade

1. The Eve of Battle

2. Operation Z

3. The Mukuden Incident

4. Strategy of Attrition

5. Full Scale War

6. Guadalcanal

7. On Choral Shores

8. Unsung Heroes

9. Tokyo Napalm Holocaust

10. Kamikaze

11. To Bear The Unbearable

War themed death metal with awesome meaty riffs? Yes please.

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Wodensthrone - Loss

Album, 2009, Bindrune

1. Fyrgenstream

2. Leodum On Lande

3. Heofungtid

4. Those That Crush the Roots of Blood

5. Black Moss

6. Upon These Stones

7. Pillar of the Sun

8. That Which is Now Forgotten

Along with Winterfylleth, Wodensthrone have been spearheading a resurgence in Brtitsh black metal over the last couple of years, proving that we are capable of quality black metal here in Blighty. Epic and expansive, this is an album of sweeping soundscapes, created by tremelo picking and atmospheric keys, conjuring images of the lost pre-christian, pagan England that the title refers to.

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Wormed - Quasineutrality

Single, 2010

1. Uncoloured Plasma Orifices Transported

2. Undeciphering the Inquantificability

A short slab of high quality brutal death metal to start you all off. Unlike most brutal death metal bands,the gore based themes are dropped in favour of atsro-physics and quantam mechanics. Highly reccomend this, even if brutal death metal isn't your usual cup o' tea, purely because it's just damn good. Download it Here