Sleep- Hempispheres (Album Review) Sept. 4, 2026

Hempispheres
by Sleep

Sleeps eight year run in the 1990s resulted in some of the most influential doom and stoner metal/rock of that decade, with Sleeps Holy Mountain and Jerusalem/Dopesmoker remaining albums that have stood the test of time. After their initial split the groups members spawned bands that were arguably j...

Agonanist- The Spirit of Gravity (Album Review) Sept. 2, 2026

The Spirit of Gravity
by Agonanist

Agonanist made a strong statement with its 2020 full length The Cynicism of Solitude, which followed up a split with Voidcraeft from three years earlier. Formed as a solo effort by California based Tyler Henthorn, Agonanist focused on microtonal arrangements and dissonant black metal that at times t...

Fen- ELEMENTAL Part One: MOURNING EARTH (Album Review) Aug. 31, 2026

ELEMENTAL Part One: MOURNING EARTH
by Fen

Fen has been incredibly consistent over the past twenty years, and while some of their earlier work may have drawn a lot of parallels to bands like Agalloch, as theyve progressed the group has really found their own unique elements. Each of their albums has emphasized something a bit different while...

Erdve- Epigrama (Album Review) Aug. 21, 2026

Epigrama
by Erdve

Erdve has made a name for themselves over the past decade by offering some of the bleakest hardcore and metal around, blending elements of sludge, hardcore, and black metal together in ways that were atmospheric and chaotic in equal capacity. At times their first two albums felt like they captured a...

Black Marble- Life in Small Spaces (Album Review) Aug. 20, 2026

Life in Small Spaces
by Black Marble

The past two decades have seen a vast amount of synthpop, coldwave, and adjacent artists emerge, and for a time it seemed like the indie scene was overflowing with different takes on the genres. Chris Stewart formed Black Marble in 2012, and his early work under this name followed explored a noticea...

Reserver- Reverser (Album Review) Aug. 18, 2026

Reverser
by Reserver

Chicago based Reserver began as the solo work of The Laureate member Chad Preston, serving as a way for him to process a difficult period caring for his wife until her passing from cancer in 2022. What may have started as a way to navigate sadness and grief transformed over time as the band moved fr...

Converge- Hum of Hurt (Album Review) Aug. 12, 2026

Hum of Hurt
by Converge

Converge may release music at a less frequent pace these days, but its clear that when they do write and hit the studio there is a wealth of material to choose from. Sometimes this has resulted in splits or EPs released around the same time as one of their full lengths (such as Beautiful Ruin coming...

Evil Island- Terraform the Afterlife (Album Review) Aug. 11, 2026

Terraform the Afterlife
by Evil Island

The Blood Brothers played a pivotal role in my discovery of post hardcore and everything adjacent to it, as their barely controlled chaos and wide range of influences that were melded in gave them a sound that had a lot of unique elements. Their ten-year run was a whirlwind of activity with an EP an...

Cancer Bats- Give Me Dirt (Album Review) Aug. 10, 2026

Give Me Dirt
by Cancer Bats

Cancer Bats has been a regular face in the Canadian hardcore/punk scene for more than two decades, and while theyve shaken up their formula a bit from album-to-album listeners know they can expect some Southern metal-tinged grooves and metalcore heaviness. For their eighth album Give Me Dirt, the gr...

Wealthy Women- Children (Album Review) Aug. 5, 2026

Children
by Wealthy Women

Wealthy Women is a noise rock trio based out of San Francisco, and while they may have only been together for about two years now their debut full-length Children showcases a sense of cohesion and urgency that is not always common this early on. Noise rock is one of those genres that can take many d...

TodoMal- Graveyards of Joy (Album Review) Aug. 5, 2026

Graveyards of Joy
by TodoMal

TodoMal was formed in 2020 by two veteran musicians from the Spanish metal scene, and while their other bands had spanned a wide range of metal styles the goal here was to write a more expansive and atmospheric type of doom that took influence from progressive and space rock. The groups debut full l...

Torpor- Dungeon Descent (Album Review) Aug. 3, 2026

Dungeon Descent
by Torpor (Poland)

Poland has such a wide range of metal talent that one could easily spend weeks listening to artists from the country and always hear something a bit different. Sometimes this comes in more experimental forms, while other times youll hear bands that are reframing classic sounds and finding their own ...

Emptiness- Nowhere Speaks (Album Review) July 30, 2026

Nowhere Speaks
by Emptiness

Emptiness transformation has been fascinating to follow over the years, as while the group started off with a black/death metal foundation their work already showed a flair for the experimental early on. By 2014s Nothing But the Whole the approach had shifted significantly towards something that was...

Desecresy- The Secret of Death (Album Review) July 29, 2026

The Secret of Death
by Desecresy

Desecresy may not be as well known as some of the other Finnish death metal bands out there, but theres something to be said for the consistency and pace that sole member Tommi Grnqvist has maintained over the past sixteen years. Originally founded following the break-up of Slugathor, Grnqvist was j...

Devourment- Pious Impiety (EP Review) July 27, 2026

Pious Impiety
by Devourment

Devourment may not release music quite as often as some of the other long-running brutal death metal bands out there, but the Dallas based group has made it clear over their career that they value quality over quantity. Whether youre jumping on with early highlight Molesting the Decapitated or later...

REZN- Cycles in the Infinite Dream (Album Review) July 24, 2026

Cycles in the Infinite Dream
by REZN

REZNs work ethic is admirable, as in their ten years of existence the band has released six full-length albums and other collaborative works. But where some artists churn out material that follows similar formulas every few years, whats noticeable when digging into the Chicago groups discography is ...

Joudy- Permanent Maintenance (Album Review) July 23, 2026

Permanent Maintenance
by Joudy

Joudy may be a new name to many, but the bands history stretches back over fifteen plus years and a change in continents. Originally called Joudy Ju and based out of Venezuela, guitarist/vocalist Diego Ramrez would eventually flee his home country due to the continued instability and political tensi...

Black Sites- For Eternity (Album Review) July 22, 2026

For Eternity
by Black Sites

Black Sites emerged in 2017 with In Monochrome, showcasing founder Mark Sugars knack for bridging old and modern takes on heavy/progressive metal. Even early on the band was hard to pin down, as it encompassed a wide range of influences from across the metal spectrums. With each successive album Sug...

Funebrarum- Beckoning the Void of Eternal Silence (Album Review) July 15, 2026

Beckoning the Void of Eternal Silence
by Funebrarum

Funebrarum has been around since 1999 but compared to some of the other long-running US death metal bands their output has been a bit more sporadic. Following 2001s Beneath the Columns of Abandoned Gods, it would take another eight years with a few smaller releases in between before The Sleep of Mor...

Parts & Labor- Set of All Sets (Album Review) July 14, 2026

Set of All Sets
by Parts & Labor

Throughout the early and mid-2000s, Parts Labor made a name for themselves in the Brooklyn and wider NYC music scene through material that blurred the lines between noise rock, noise pop, and everything in between. Initially their albums retained more of a punk and hardcore edge to them along with ...
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