Reviews 0 Review: Swallow The Sun Brings Catchiness to Crushing Depression with Shining October 15th, 2024 at 3:00pm Max Heilman In this way, Shining brings a profound melodic instinct to the nucleus of sorrowful doom metal that is Swallow The Sun.
Reviews 0 Review: Chat Pile Diversifies Their Aural Anguish with Cool World October 10th, 2024 at 12:21pm Max Heilman Chat Pile flexes more of their songwriting chops within the mental spiraling of ‘Cool World.’
Reviews 0 Review: Unto Others Deepen Their Goth Metal Greatness with Never, Neverland September 19th, 2024 at 12:00pm Max Heilman Stay catchy, friends.
Reviews 0 Review: Uniform Finds Ambition and Vulnerability on American Standard August 20th, 2024 at 12:25pm Max Heilman Pain becomes art in this new album.
Revisit Reviews 0 How Slipknot Set the Stage for a Modern Metal Juggernaut with Their Self-Titled June 29th, 2024 at 10:07am Max Heilman The sheer raw intensity Slipknot generated on their first full-length remains nigh unfathomably to this day.
Revisit Reviews 0 Twenty-Five Years Ago, Limp Bizkit Pioneered Nu Metal Post-Irony with Significant Other June 22nd, 2024 at 11:06am Max Heilman Limp Bizkit could not have created an album like Significant Other without a genius for bonafide buffoonery.
Reviews 0 Review: Alcest’s Les Chants de l’Aurore Reflects Their Bright New Dawn June 17th, 2024 at 3:09pm Max Heilman It’s still clear that Neige’s approach can never be replicated.
Reviews 0 Review: Pallbearer Hones the Art of Doom Metal Balladry with Mind Burns Alive May 17th, 2024 at 11:28am Max Heilman The thing that really makes Mind Burns Alive a worthy listen is the way Pallbearer commands emotion not through extremity, but through tact.
Revisit Reviews 0 Twenty Years Ago, Killswitch Engage Perfected Melodic Metalcore with End of Heartache May 11th, 2024 at 1:00pm Max Heilman We look back on landmark albums like this one to see how Killswitch Engage perfected melodic metalcore.
Reviews 0 Review: Full of Hell Throws Curveballs on Coagulated Bliss April 29th, 2024 at 12:25pm Max Heilman ‘Coagulated Bliss’ gives a lot of bang for its buck. Full of Hell packs an impressive amount of unique experiences in a compact, lethal dose.
Reviews 0 Review: Thief Refines and Expands ‘Dungeon Pop’ with Bleed, Memory April 16th, 2024 at 11:12am Max Heilman Thief has grown from essentially answering the question “what if someone used traditional church music to make music goth kids could dance to?” to a great addition to the industrial rock and metal landscape.
Reviews 0 Review: Iron Monkey Favors Bash Over Flash on Spleen and Goad April 1st, 2024 at 4:28pm Max Heilman “This album will certainly repel all but true sludge heads.”
Reviews 0 Review: O Zorn! Takes Long Beach Sludge to More Pleasant Places with Vermilion Haze March 11th, 2024 at 11:37am Max Heilman Hooky and heavy, ‘Vermilion Haze’ finds O Zorn! earning their keep as one of Southern California’s most exciting bands within heavy rock.
Reviews 0 Review: Infant Island Augments Blackened Screamo with Obsidian Wreath January 11th, 2024 at 11:36am Max Heilman It’s about time a band like Infant Island broke through the pretensions of scramz, black metal to create something cathartic and thoughtful.
Reviews 0 Review: Project 86 Deliver Us Into a Technocratic Nightmare on Farewell Album Omni Pt. 2 January 10th, 2024 at 11:22am Max Heilman There’s plenty to enjoy on Omni Pt. 2, but Project 86 leaves more room for electronic embellishments.
Revisit Reviews 0 25 Years Ago, Refused Made The Shape of Punk to Come… Literally October 27th, 2023 at 12:40pm Max Heilman Even after so many years later, this album is still as poignant as it was in 1998.
Reviews 0 Review: Gravesend Buries the Mean Streets of NYC with Gowanus Death Stomp October 25th, 2023 at 10:48am Max Heilman With Gowanus Death Stomp, Gravesend provides various sonic hues to paint a picture of a tweaker getting curb-stomped in a filthy alleyway.
Reviews 0 Review: End Makes Metalcore Deeper and Darker with The Sin of Human Frailty October 23rd, 2023 at 10:16am Max Heilman ‘The Sin of Human Frailty’ finds End continuing to plunge deeper into an open wound of dark hardcore.
Reviews 0 Review: Code Orange Elaborates on Art-House Hardcore and ’90s Grit with The Above September 28th, 2023 at 10:31am Max Heilman The Above finds metallic hardcore deviants Code Orange flourishing in a musical story of their own imagining.
Reviews 0 Review: Necrotted Creates Uncompromising Deathcore with Imperium September 19th, 2023 at 1:17pm Max Heilman Imperium will be available this Friday, September 22.
