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 ...

The Dharma Chain- Some Kind of Pure State (Album Review) July 10, 2026

Some Kind Of Pure State
by The Dharma Chain

The Dharma Chain joined the ever-growing shoegaze and psychedelic rock scene back in 2024 with their debut Nowhere, but even early on their material showcased elements that pushed beyond the usual genre stereotypes. Originally based in Australia before relocating to Berlin, Germany, two years after ...

Devin Townsend- The Moth (Album Review) July 1, 2026

The Moth
by Devin Townsend

Over the years Devin Townsend has remained one of the true experimenters within the worlds of progressive metal and rock, and each time he releases something listeners are never quite sure what theyre going to get. If youve explored a significant amount of his back catalog there are key elements tha...

Junius- Sotera (Album Review) June 30, 2026

Sotera
by Junius

Junius is one of those bands that has always been hard to pin down into specific boxes, as even early on their sound encompassed so many different elements. Originally formed in 2000 as Dedspace before changing over to Junius in 2003, their earliest works had this intriguing sound that felt like alt...

100 Demons- Embrace The Black Light (Album Review) June 25, 2026

Embrace the Black Light
by 100 Demons

One thing that has become clear throughout the 2020s is that as long as a good portion of a bands lineup is still alive, a reunion is never truly off the table. So many artists in a wide range of genres have returned in this decade after twenty or more years of inactivity, and this has been especial...

Nargaroth- Apocalyptic Steel (Album Review) June 24, 2026

Apocalyptic Steel
by Nargaroth

Nargaroth celebrates its thirtieth anniversary this year, and while the German black metal bands output has been few and far between compared to in the early days founder Ash has kept busy with live performances throughout South/Central America and other parts of the world. While the groups earlier ...
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