(Today our contributor Zoltar brings us reviews of five recently released or reissued OSDM albums, and you’ll find them all below.)

FRIGHTFUL – WHAT LIES AHEAD

Being smart doesn’t hurt does it? Especially in this highly competitive world… So kudos to Gdansk’s Frightful for realizing soon enough that the grind/death direction they were initially stirring their band to could well be a dead end, at least based on their lacklustre 2018 EP Cannibalistic Rites. Their second full-length What Lies Ahead takes what made their debut album Spectral Creator so great back in 2021 and just runs with it at full speed. At its very core, their music is pure death/thrash mayhem with that kind of inimitable sense of urgency, somewhere in between Schizophrenia-era Sepultura and mid-period Sodom. Continue reading »