Sarcasm – Lifeforce Omnibound (2026) – Review

Sarcasm - Lifeforce Omnibound - Album Cover

Here’s to a band with an (alleged) understanding that traditional Swedeath will be a difficult sell to an audience conditioned on too much Rogga Johansson1 and little else. So, Sarcasm gave their offering a little push to move outside of the confines of THAT Swedish brand of metal. To get a breath of fresh air and some room to maneuver, I reckon. And who can blame them? The aforementioned genre itself is sadly overcrowded and is fraught with – norms after all.

So, let Lifeforce Omnibound shine its sickly light unto us measly dwellers of the metalverse and teach … [...] Click to raid more!

Newsflash: Third Storm emerge with Tarîtîya Me!

Third Storm just returned from the cold, vast plains of Hel. To torment us with their new EP Tarîtîya Me. 

The Swedish band sports a very dark and weird mix of Black Metal. With a goodly portion of blackened Funeral Doom Metal thrown in for good measure.

The band formed way back in 1986, in cold, dark Sweden. By a bunch of youngsters wanting to do something different from the mainstream, ending up on the smelly bottom of extreme underground metal. The same vile mainstream that looked at anything blackened with disdain, to say the least. And who could blame … [...] Click to raid more!