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...

Stillbirth- Survival Protocol (Album Review) Nov. 4, 2025

Survival Protocol
by Stillbirth

Stillbirth has been offering up their own blend of brutal death metal/slam for the better part of two decades, and chances are good that even if you havent spent as much time with their music youve seen some of their distinct album artwork. Theres always been a fun/tongue in cheek aspect to their mu...

One of Nine- Dawn of the Iron Shadow (Album Review) Nov. 4, 2025

Dawn of the Iron Shadow
by One of Nine

The works of J.R.R. Tolkien have been an inspiration for many metal bands over the decades, with some even using it as their entire focus for both lyrics and imagery. US black metal band One of Nine emerged as another great example of how to bring Tolkiens work over to the icier and aggressive style...

Mammoth- The End (Album Review) Oct. 31, 2025

The End (2025)
by Mammoth

The growth that Wolfgang Van Halen has seen as an artist over the past five years has been incredible, as each of his albums has refined and remolded his approach to everything rock. Under the name Mammoth WVH, the first two releases paid tribute to Wolfgangs fathers work through the band name as we...

Cultic- Lore (Album Review) Oct. 28, 2025

Lore
by Cultic

Cultics progression over the past nine years has been interesting to follow, as the Pennsylvania based band started off on the more primitive end of the spectrum writing very heavy death/doom that pulled from the likes of Celtic Frost and Winter. Their full-length debut High Command was pretty strai...

Terzij de Horde- Our Breath Is Not Ours Alone (Album Review) Oct. 27, 2025

Our Breath Is Not Ours Alone
by Terzij de Horde

Terzij de Horde emerged in 2022 after almost eight years of silence with a lot more fury. Where their prior effort Self had plenty of roaring black metal in 2015, their exploration of slower sludge/post metal and even post hardcore resulted in some somber, introspective moments in between the blasti...

The Munsens- Degradation in the Hyperreal (Album Review) Oct. 24, 2025

Degradation in the Hyperreal
by The Munsens

The Munsens caught my attention back in 2019 with their full length Unbounded, which showcased the trios ability to pull in other elements of extreme metal into their atmospheric and sometimes psychedelic take on sludge and doom. Sometimes youd start to be lulled into a trance by a lengthier build-u...

High On Wheels- The Monkey (Album Review) Oct. 23, 2025

The Monkey
by High On Wheels

Over the past two decades of reviewing music Ive concluded that France seems to have more stoner/desert rock bands than most other countries. For as many artists as there are in different parts of the US offering their own take on the crunchy tonality and grooves associated with these genres, Ive ha...

Dog Lips- Danger Forward (Album Review) Oct. 22, 2025

Danger Forward
by Dog Lips

Dog Lips is certainly one of those band names that grabs your attention before you even know what the music sounds like, but once you hit play on the groups sophomore effort Danger Forward it becomes clear their songs are just as unexpected as their band name. At the core of the sound is classic roc...

Wolvennest- Procession (Album Review) Oct. 22, 2025

Procession
by Wolvennest

Over the past decadeWolvennest has offered some genuinely entrancing music out there that spanned a wide range of rock and metal influences. Early on their emphasis on repetition and sprawling arrangements took on more of a doom and psychedelic rock approach, but there were already some rougher edge...

Atomic Witch- Death Etiquette (Album Review) Oct. 17, 2025

Death Etiquette
by Atomic Witch

When it comes to metal bands from Cleveland, there are no shortage of artists that capture that old-school death and thrash metal sound while also wrapping things up in an appropriately gory and horror laden aesthetic. Atomic Witch is no exception, as theyve been offering up fast paced and intense m...

Shiner- BELIEVEYOUME (Album Review) Oct. 16, 2025

BELIEVEYOUME
by Shiner

Kansas Citys Shiner made a name for themselves in the 90s and early 2000s through a mixture of post hardcore and alternative rock that explored similar ground as bands like Quicksand, Hum, and Failure but had plenty of unique flairs. Earlier efforts had a bit more of that post hardcore and noise roc...

Incinerated- The Epitome of Transgression (Album Review) Sept. 19, 2025

The Epitome of Transgression
by Incinerated

Indonesia has made itself known as another country filled with noteworthy death metal bands over the last decade and a half, with some skewing towards the brutal end of the spectrum and others like Exhumation opting for more of a death/thrash sound with some atmospheric layers. Incinerated joined th...

Arrows- Yearning Arrows; Cloven Suns (Album Review) Sept. 18, 2025

Yearning Arrows; Cloven Suns
by Arrows

A few months ago I was covering one of the many bands within the Jnger Tumilon collective, as Arkhaiik had returned with an album that explored hunting in the Bronze Age through slow burning death/doom and death/black metal with tribal elements woven in. Like many of the others in the collective, th...
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