Reviews 0 Review: Botanist Pushes Their Dulcimer Black Metal Forward with VIII: Selenotrope May 31st, 2023 at 12:57pm Max Heilman By any stylistic metric, the hammered dulcimer-driven black metal aura of Botanist has reached an impressive precipice this time around.
Reviews 0 Cloak Get Heavier and Return to Their Roots with Black Flame Eternal May 24th, 2023 at 12:53pm Mandy Scythe Cloak are dropping their third full-length studio album ‘Black Flame Eternal’ through Season Of Mist.
Reviews 0 Review: Immortal’s War Against All Obliterates the Haters May 22nd, 2023 at 2:48pm Bree Halmstad Demonaz still conquers with his upcoming record War Against All.
Reviews 0 Review: Khanate Remember the Bad Times on To Be Cruel May 19th, 2023 at 8:00am Em Shadows Khanate return after nearly 15 years away.
Reviews 0 Review: Frozen Soul Bring Crushing Death Metal with Glacial Domination May 18th, 2023 at 1:07pm Mandy Scythe Frozen Soul’s new album, Glacial Domination, is a crushing slab of death metal.
Reviews 0 Review: The Ocean Lands Their Journey Through Natural History with Holocene May 17th, 2023 at 10:12am Max Heilman Though quieter in comparison, The Ocean never compromises the creative drive that has kept them on the vanguard of forward thinking metal.
Reviews 0 Review: Sleep Token Continues to Push Boundaries on Take Me Back To Eden May 16th, 2023 at 9:43am Max Heilman The meteoric rise of Sleep Token may be one of the best success stories in heavy music, and their third LP is poised to spur that momentum.
Reviews 0 Review: Cattle Decapitation’s Terrasite Serves Up Familiar Environmental Fury May 9th, 2023 at 12:34pm Mandy Scythe Cattle Decapitation’s latest offering is a stark warning of how we’re fu*king up the planet.
Reviews 0 Review: The Acacia Strain Mines the Depths of Doom with Failure Will Follow May 4th, 2023 at 10:43am Max Heilman Rather than try the genre on for size, The Acacia Strain uses doom metal to realize new facets of their sound even after two decades.
Reviews 0 Review: The Acacia Strain Brings Unbridled Mayhem with Step Into The Light May 4th, 2023 at 10:42am Max Heilman The Acacia Strain has never sounded more violent and ferocious than they do on this album… even by their standards.
Reviews 0 Review: Bell Witch begins their funeral doom trilogy with a bang on The Clandestine Gate April 21st, 2023 at 9:44am Max Heilman Luckily, Bell Witch does more with The Clandestine Gate than attempt another 84-minute song like Mirror Reaper.
Reviews 0 Review: Cradle of Filth’s Trouble and Their Double Lives is a Must-Have for Any Fan April 19th, 2023 at 1:46pm Kenny Schticky Just the two new songs alone are worth the price of admission.
Reviews 0 Review: Spotlights Dial in Their Metal-Gaze Sound Bath on Alchemy for the Dead April 18th, 2023 at 12:45pm Max Heilman Spotlights reflect the decade they’ve spent honing their craft, while also bringing the freshness of a group excited to deepen their impact.
Reviews 0 Review: Jesus Piece’s …So Unknown is Pure, Ripping, Riff-Fueled Fury April 14th, 2023 at 11:17am Mandy Scythe Jesus Piece’s latest album will make you feel things as it pummels you in the face.
Reviews 0 Review: Metallica’s 72 Seasons is a Testament to the Band’s Past and Future April 13th, 2023 at 3:37pm Hesher Keenan It’s an album from a band that knows how to say what it wants.
Reviews 0 Review: Rotten Sound’s Apocalypse is a Pummeling Fist of Grindcore to the Senses April 10th, 2023 at 1:30pm Mandy Scythe Rotten Sound’s Apocalypse, out now via Season of Mist, is a relentless, unrelenting assault on the senses that I highly recommend.
Reviews 0 Review: MORK’s Dypet Takes You Deep into the Cold Abyss March 23rd, 2023 at 3:20pm Kenny Schticky Dypet is a must have for your black metal collection. Leave no doubt.
Reviews 0 Review: Ne Obliviscaris’ Exul is a Challenging and Satisfying Progressive Journey March 23rd, 2023 at 11:40am Chad Bowar The whole of the album has an even greater impact than the sum of its parts.
Reviews 0 Review: Liturgy grapples with the divine on the vast, grand 93696 March 21st, 2023 at 12:57pm Max Heilman 93696 comprises a cavalcade of everything the transcendental black metal of Liturgy has to offer, and then some.
Reviews 0 Review: Kruelty mines death metal for the best beatdowns with Untopia March 15th, 2023 at 10:37am Max Heilman In line with No Zodiac and Xibalba, Japan’s Kruelty owes their riffage to old school death/doom metal—with beatdowns for icing on the cake.