Sex Dwarf- Påhittad Värld (Album Review) Jan. 2, 2026

Påhittad Värld
by Sex Dwarf

When it comes to noisy punk and hardcore, Sweden has just as many noteworthy bands as the likes of Japan and other parts of Europe. Around the early 2010s there was a surge of newcomers that each added their own take on things, whether it was the D-beat and heavy metal slant of 偏執症者Paranoid or the s...

Nemorous- What Remains When Hope Has Failed (Album Review) Dec. 31, 2025

What Remains When Hope Has Failed
by Nemorous

Nemorous debut full-length has been a long time coming, and that anticipation has been built off both the success of their 2021 EP and legacy from Wodensthrone, which many of their members played in prior to its 2016 disbandment. Where Wodensthrone had a noticeable aggressive and pagan slant, Nemoro...

Cult Member- Gore (Album Review) Dec. 26, 2025

Gore (2025)
by Cult Member

We already have a band called Cult Leader, so why not Cult Member? The latter is a fairly new addition to the world of crossover thrash, having formed in 2020, but they already have an EP and two full lengths under their belt. The most recent is Gore, a nine track, twenty-minute onslaught that spend...

Struck A Nerve- Struck A Nerve (Album Review) Dec. 24, 2025

Struck A Nerve
by Struck A Nerve

Struck A Nerve may be a new band in the UK thrash scene but considering that three of their four members have been involved with Shrapnel at different points it makes sense that the material that makes up their self-titled debut is more potent and fully formed than most newcomers. Where Shrapnel vee...

Occult Kenji- Of Gods and Ancestors (Album Review) Dec. 17, 2025

Of Gods and Ancestors
by Occult Kenji

Occult Kenji is the solo project of Cyprus based musician/vocalist Marios "Kenji" Michaelides, who has been a part of bands such as Daggr and MethysOs. Where MethysOs went for more of a folk/symphonic metal approach, Kenjis solo project explores a wide range of metal and rock styles that span everyt...

Nexion- Sundrung (Album Review) Dec. 16, 2025

Sundrung
by Nexion

Nexion emerged in the mid-2010s as one of the newer faces in the Icelandic black metal scenes, but they quickly made it clear that they had a sound of their own. 2017s self-titled EP and 2020s Seven Oracles showcased a band that took just as many elements of death metal as they did dissonant black m...

Summoning Hellgates- Spear of Conquest (EP Review) Dec. 15, 2025

Spear of Conquest
by Summoning Hellgates

Summoning Hellgates was formed back in 2021 by the duo of S. Augusto and A. Garcia, two musicians that have been involved in a variety of different bands in the Spanish underground. Their debut EP Spear of Conquest shows that both the band and EP name reflect the type of intensity and bludgeoning na...

Munt- The World Is Not Yours (Album Review) Dec. 9, 2025

The World Is Not Yours
by Munt

Australias Munt has been around for just under a decade now, originally forming in 2016 by guitarist Spud Robertson alongside several guests before expanding to a full lineup in 2018. Over that span of time the band has put out three EPs and a split, with each one refining their blistering take on b...

Omegavortex- Diabolic Messiah of the New World Order (Album Review) Dec. 5, 2025

Diabolic Messiah of the New World Order
by Omegavortex

Omegavortexs 2020 full-length Black Abomination Spawn was a chaotic and dense listen that captured a similar vibe as some of the earlier and most unhinged death metal out there while also injecting some hints of black metal into the mix. It showcased a band that had some precision to their attack an...

The Ominous Circle- Cloven Tongues of Fire (Album Review) Nov. 25, 2025

Cloven Tongues of Fire
by The Ominous Circle

The Ominous Circle made a strong impression with their 2017 debut Appalling Ascension, which offered dense and murky death metal alongside some slower methodical doom. Considering the group was made up of members from a slew of different bands in the Portuguese metal scene, it wasnt surprising that ...

Modern Life Is War- Life On The Moon (Album Review) Nov. 24, 2025

Life On The Moon
by Modern Life Is War

Modern Life Is War ended up as one of the more influential bands in the melodic hardcore and hardcore punk spaces in the early to mid-2000s, with their original six-year run producing memorable efforts like Witness and Midnight in America. Despite disbanding only a year or so after Midnight in Ameri...

Tauthr- Krybl (Album Review) Nov. 20, 2025

Krybl
by Tauthr

You may not have come across German black metal band Tauthr before but given how spread out their releases have been thats not surprising. Formed back in 1991, the group released two demos (neither of which seem to be uploaded online anywhere) before disappearing for over a decade. Tauthrs primary m...

Drowned in Silver- Mothers (Album Review) Nov. 18, 2025

Mothers
by Drowned in Silver

Poland has some of the more experimental and interesting metal and rock out there but dig a little deeper and youll find a lot of shared musicians between some of these projects. This makes the discovery of each new band exciting, and that was the case with Drowned in Silver. While the group has cho...

The Sound of Animals Fighting- The Maiden (Album Review) Nov. 17, 2025

The Maiden
by The Sound of Animals Fighting

The Sound of Animals Fighting emerged as a supergroup of sorts in the early to mid-2000s, bringing together musicians from well-known bands in the post hardcore, punk, and other alternative adjacent genres. But where other supergroups have sometimes sounded very close to one or multiple projects its...

Qrixkuor- The Womb of the World (Album Review) Nov. 14, 2025

The Womb of the World
by Qrixkuor

Qrixkuors progression over the last four years has been incredible to watch, as while the UK based death metal band started off as your typical cavernous sounding band with lots of dense layers, over time they have evolved into something that pushed the boundaries of the genre outwards. 2021s Poison...

Armor For Sleep- There Is No Memory (Album Review) Nov. 14, 2025

There Is No Memory
by Armor for Sleep

During their original eight-year run, Armor For Sleep stood out amongst the hundreds of emo and alternative rock adjacent bands in the 2000s thanks to their incorporate of dream pop and other musical elements as well as an emphasis on cohesive lyrical concepts. Dream to Make Believe and What to Do W...

Inhuman- Gloriæ (Album Review) Nov. 12, 2025

GLORIÆ
by Inhuman

They may have formed in the same year as Moonspell, but I cant say Ive heard Portuguese gothic metal band Inhuman mentioned nearly as often. One of the reasons they might have eluded some of the booming popularity of their fellow countrymen is extended periods of inactivity, as their original run wa...

Mausoleum Gate- Space, Rituals and Magick (Album Review) Nov. 10, 2025

Space, Rituals and Magick
by Mausoleum Gate

Mausoleum Gate has occupied an interesting space since their formation, capturing that period in the 70s/80s when the divide between hard rock and the newer heavy metal sound was harder to differentiate. Over time theyve moved further into prog and some of the keyboard heavy exploration from those d...

Volahn- Popol Vuh (Album Review) Nov. 7, 2025

Popol Vuh
by Volahn

Out of all the Black Twilight Circle bands that emerged in the early to mid-2000s, Volahn has been one of the most prominent due to founder Eduardo Ramirezs incredible guitar work and incorporation of Mayan musical influences. 2014s Aq'Ab'Al pushed the group to new heights following its earlier work...

Sunn O)))- Eternity's Pillars b/w Raise the Chalice & Reverential (Review) Nov. 5, 2025

Eternity's Pillars b/w Raise the Chalice & Reverential
by Sunn O)))

Sunn O))) is one of those bands that either clicks with people right from the get-go or has them immediately turning it off. Over the past twenty-seven years the core duo has taken their drone and drone metal foundation and explored a wide range of textures and tones, bringing in a wide range of col...
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