Review by Michael on December 23, 2025.

Blood Court show us a typical German backyard with some grim normies charring their neighbors who didn't cut the hedge the last fall and didn't put the garden gnomes into their well-deserved hibernation on a grey Sunday afternoon on the front cover. And with this cover you can almost anticipate what kind of music the duo is offering to us.

Backyard Babies you say? Em, no, not really. On their second full-length with the matching title "The Burial" we can find some really fast and grim death metal songs that are highly inspired by Cannibal Corpse.

But let's hear what the band itself says: "Two men, one tribunal – the verdict is death. […] Armed with pure fury, they unleash an apocalyptic strom of aggression, blood and decay. Their songs are not mere tracks – they are executions in sonic form, rituals of extinction forged from pain, wrath and utter darkness. […] A rising storm, blood-drenched and inescapable."
Alright, this sounds quite promising but often the press info tell more than we can find in reality. But on "The Burial" you can truly hear a lot of aggression and fury.

And the guys aren't just pressing the Cannibal Corpse "copy" and "paste" button but have some own ideas in the songs also. First of all sometimes the guitar soli are even faster than what their role models are performing and also the vocals by Mike (also active in Dark Horizon and Reanimated) are pretty sick, sometimes sicker than Corpsegrinders' performance. And here and there you can find some cool catchy grind-riffing like Napalm Death did in the early 90s-, too.

What is striking is the penchant of Blood Court for speed and blast beats. Not a single song is done in a slower pace, nope, there is only full-speed during the 31 minutes total running time.
Of course you can complain that this is a little bit too monotonous and unimaginative but hey, who cares, if you get a permanent punch into your face? I don't, to be honest.

With "I Cum Blood" we can find a cover song you can guess who on the album and "The Crippler" which is probably one of the most brutal songs from "Tapping The Vain" by Sodom has a nice guest appearance by Sabina Classen (Holy Moses). Apropos Classen – Andy Classen did the very powerful recording, mixing and mastering at Stage One Studio.

If you like Cannibal Corpse and co and don't look for any crazy new obscure shit but just for some old-school entertainment you will love this album for sure. This is some good friendly violent fun to listen to and nothing more. But also nothing less.

Rating: 8 out of 10