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.
Reviews 0 Review: Full of Hell & Primitive Man Team up to Ruin Your Day with Suffocating Hallucination March 3rd, 2023 at 12:26pm Mandy Scythe This collaborative effort is as unrelenting as it is balanced.
Reviews 0 Review: Periphery V: Djent Is Not A Genre Subverts Expectations March 2nd, 2023 at 11:42am Joe Jira Periphery’s latest provides fun and undeniable heaviness throughout.
Reviews 0 Review: Enslaved’s Heimdal is a Nordic Triumph Worthy of Valhalla February 23rd, 2023 at 11:23am Bree Halmstad The kaleidoscopic Heimdal feels a bit like a drug trip in the forest culminating in the revelation of the Norse gods.
Reviews 0 Review: In Flames’ Foregone Sparks a New Fire February 8th, 2023 at 11:22am Jakk Mylde In Flames got their mojo back.
Reviews 0 Review: IX by Host is New Darkwave at Its Apex February 7th, 2023 at 1:06pm Kenny Schticky Let me say that when I first read that two […]
Reviews 0 Review: Insomnium’s Anno 1696 is One of Their Very Best February 7th, 2023 at 11:09am Kenny Schticky I’d argue that this newest LP has some of the band’s best songs they’ve ever written.
Reviews 0 Review: Sanguisugabogg’s Homicidal Ecstasy is Disgustingly Satisfying February 1st, 2023 at 10:07am Mandy Scythe To say that Sanguisugabogg have had a big impact on death metal is a massive understatement, and luckily, the new record does not disappoint.
Editorials 0 Review: …And Oceans’ As In Gardens, So In Tombs is Swimmingly Good January 23rd, 2023 at 12:22pm Kenny Schticky “This a record about struggle, energy, enlightenment and what awaits us in the beyond.”
Reviews 0 Review: Turbid North’s The Decline Sticks Quite Nicely to Past Guns, Thank You Very Much January 18th, 2023 at 12:45pm Spliff Burton Have Turbid North grown on their new album, The Decline?