Hailing from the ever-rising Montreal death metal scene, SERPENT CORPSE are at once foreign and familiar. Blood Sabbath, their full-length debut following a demo in 2021, on first glance feels resolutely old school: straightforward songwriting, analog production, little flash but full fire. And indeed, SERPENT CORPSE do show noble influence from the very early '90s - foremost among them, the world-eating enormity of classic Bolt Thrower and vigorous D-beating of early Entombed - but along with another set of tweaked influences and [read more...]