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.
Reviews 0 Review: Alluvial Start Strong But Don’t Quite Stick the Landing with Death Is But a Door January 8th, 2024 at 2:42pm C.C. DeLorean Death is but a core
Reviews 0 Review: Escuela Grind Hit the Nail on the Head with Latest EP DDEEAATTHHMMEETTAALL January 8th, 2024 at 11:50am Mandy Scythe They do the genre justice.
Reviews 0 Book Review: Dayal Patterson’s Black Metal: Evolution of the Cult (The Restored Expanded & Definitive Edition) January 5th, 2024 at 2:30pm Bree Halmstad Pick up this must-have book!
Reviews 0 Review: Panopticon’s The Rime Of Memory is an Epic Reminder of Austin Lunn’s Excellence December 4th, 2023 at 3:40pm Mandy Scythe Is it cold enough for this record yet?
Editorials 0 Paradise Lost Keep it Nostalgic yet Fresh with Icon 30 December 3rd, 2023 at 3:00pm Mandy Scythe This is one for the ages.
Reviews 0 Review: Helfró Tap Into the Spirit of the Frozen North with Tálgröf November 21st, 2023 at 11:23am C.C. DeLorean Ferocious black metal with swagger and a tech death sensibility
Reviews 0 Review: Cruciamentum Run a Clinic on Pacing and Atmosphere with Obsidian Refractions November 14th, 2023 at 2:32pm C.C. DeLorean A masterful display of songwriting prowess guaranteed to get the pit moving.
Reviews 0 Review: Vastum Give Us what We’ve Been Craving on Inward To Gethsemane November 7th, 2023 at 10:00am Mandy Scythe This one’s a crusher.
Reviews 0 Review: Suffocation Continue Their Legacy on Hymns from the Apocrypha November 6th, 2023 at 3:27pm Mandy Scythe This new one from Suffocation stands the test of time and lineup changes.
Reviews 0 Review: Mortuary Drape’s Black Mirror is a Bewitching Journey November 2nd, 2023 at 1:30pm Bree Halmstad The legends have returned and continue to slay: “Die upon your grave!”
Reviews 0 Review: Carnation’s Cursed Mortality Finds Balance in the Carnage October 31st, 2023 at 2:41pm C.C. DeLorean Cursed Mortality will leave a smoldering crater in its wake when it drops this Friday.
Reviews 0 Review: Year of the Knife Hold Nothing Back on No Love Lost October 26th, 2023 at 4:18pm Mandy Scythe All proceeds will benefit the band’s recovery.
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: Krieg’s Ruiner is an Appropriately Named Destroyer of Worlds October 11th, 2023 at 12:47pm Mandy Scythe Krieg’s latest offering is absolutely unrelenting.
Reviews 0 Review: Capra Push Their Sound Further on Errors October 9th, 2023 at 9:38am Mandy Scythe It’s loud; it’s angry, and it’s the perfect soundtrack to 2023.
Reviews 0 Review: Wolves in the Throne Room Defy Expectations with Crypt of Ancestral Knowledge October 3rd, 2023 at 3:54pm Mandy Scythe They really pack the epicness into this short EP.
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.