The Body- The Crying Out Of Things (Album Review) Nov. 14, 2024

The Crying Out of Things
by The Body

For the better part of two decades, The Body has been putting out a steady stream of material that blurred the lines between metal, industrial, and other electronic genres while keeping an appropriately apocalyptic tone. Their earliest material skewed much closer to sludge, doom, and drone with plen...

Codespeaker- Scavenger (Album Review) Nov. 11, 2024

Scavenger
by Codespeaker

Post metal and sludge may not be talked about as often amongst the more mainstream facing side of metal as they were throughout the mid-2000s and early 2010s, but there are still plenty of new bands worth keeping track that inject their own flavor into the genres. One of these newcomers is Edinburgh...

VOLA- Friend of a Phantom (Album Review) Nov. 6, 2024

Friend of a Phantom
by VOLA

Like a lot of other bands in the progressive metal and rock spaces, VOLA has transformed significantly from their earlier days. Each of their albums has explored different elements, with more recent material like Witness incorporating a bit more rock and electronic elements and trying to find that s...

Devin Townsend- PowerNerd (Album Review) Nov. 4, 2024

PowerNerd
by Devin Townsend

Devin Townsend is easily one of the most productive musicians in the prog and metal spaces, as not only around the does he release material frequently but there are often multiple projects in the works at any given time. With such an expansive discography and regular shifts in musical styles, theres...

Black Pus- Terrestrial Seethings (Album Review) Oct. 30, 2024

Terrestrial Seethings
by Black Pus

Chances are good that you may have come across Lightning Bolt at some point in their thirty-year history if you like noisy or experimental rock, but you may not be as familiar with the solo work drummer/vocalist Brian Chippendale has done under the name Black Pus. Chippendale has regularly put out m...

Touché Amoré- Spiral In A Straight Line (Album Review) Oct. 14, 2024

Spiral In A Straight Line
by Touché Amoré

Like a lot of the other bands that formed around the same time in the screamo and post hardcore genres, Touch Amor earlier days were marked by short, punchier songs that crammed a lot of riffs and emotional vocals into a short span of time. Albums like To the Beat of a Dead Horse and Parting the Sea...

Envy- Eunoia (Album Review) Oct. 9, 2024

Eunoia
by Envy

Envy has been a significant part of the Japanese post hardcore and screamo scenes for the better part of thirty years, initially starting off in a similar vein to some of the bands in the genre on the other side of the world before adapting post rock and other sweeping instrumentation into their son...

Pharmakon- Maggot Mass (Album Review) Oct. 8, 2024

Maggot Mass
by Pharmakon

Around ten years or so ago, Pharmakon was generating a significant amount of buzz on the recorded and live performance front. Where most artists that fall somewhere within the death industrial, noise, and power electronics space appeal to a very specific and smaller audience, Pharmakons first two fu...

A Place To Bury Strangers- Synthesizer (Album Review) Oct. 7, 2024

Synthesizer
by A Place To Bury Strangers

A Place To Bury Strangers formed in the early 2000s, but it wasnt until later in the decade that the group would gain significant traction. Following the release of their self-titled debut in 2007 and follow-up Exploding Head in 2009, it seemed like the band was regularly mentioned amongst shoegaze ...

Crows- Reason Enough (Album Review) Oct. 4, 2024

Reason Enough
by Crows

London based Crows has been a regular face in the garage rock and post punk scenes since 2012, bringing a noisier and more aggressive take on the styles on their earlier material. Each release has seen them make some tweaks to their approach, and this years Reason Enough has some of the biggest chan...

Trash Boat- Heaven Can Wait (Album Review) Oct. 2, 2024

Heaven Can Wait
by Trash Boat

Trash Boat has had an interesting trajectory since their formation a decade ago. The British groups earlier efforts fell somewhere between pop punk and melodic hardcore, treading similar ground as bigger names like The Wonder Years, A Day To Remember, and A Wilhelm Scream. But over time their sound ...

Siderean- Spilling the Astral Chalice (Album Review) Oct. 1, 2024

Spilling the Astral Chalice
by Siderean

Slovenian progressive death metal band Siderean first emerged back in 2020 as a rebranding of sorts for Teleport, who had spent the past decade exploring technical and progressive thrash before pivoting to more of a death metal sound on the appropriately titled Ascendance and The Expansion EPs. With...

Adorior- Bleed On My Teeth (Album Review) Sept. 30, 2024

Bleed On My Teeth
by Adorior

Adoriors output has been infrequent, but each of their albums has left a lasting impact on those that gravitated towards the most extreme ends of black, death, and thrash. Formed back in 1994, their 1998 full length Like Cutting the Sleeping offered a whirlwind of riffs and unhinged vocals courtesy ...

Seether- The Surface Seems So Far (Album Review) Sept. 27, 2024

The Surface Seems So Far
by Seether

Where many of the hard rock bands that dominated airwaves in the late 90s and early 2000s have either disbanded, fallen into re-release only mode, or failed to live up to their past glory on recent albums, Seether has remained consistent. First coming into mainstream awareness with Disclaimer back i...

Kanonenfieber- Die Urkatastrophe (Album Review) Sept. 19, 2024

Die Urkatastrophe
by Kanonenfieber

Despite only being around four years old, German based Kanonenfieber has taken the metal world by storm since the release of the Menschenmhle full-length in 2021. Written and performed entirely by masked musician Noise, the material on Menschenmhle fell somewhere between melodic black/death metal an...

Void Commander- Alien Queen (Album Review) Sept. 18, 2024

Alien Queen
by Void Commander

Swedens become one of the major hubs for blues/stoner rock and doom over the past two decades or so, with quite a few bands from the country sounding like they couldve come from the swampy regions of the United States. Void Commander is the perfect example of this on their latest album Alien Queen, ...

Crobot- Obsidian (Album Review) Sept. 17, 2024

Obsidian (2024)
by Crobot

Pennsylvania based Crobot has been a regular face in the hard/stoner rock scenes for the better part of thirteen years, and while theyve never gained quite as much traction as the likes of Clutch or CKY the group has maintained a dedicated fanbase over the course of their career. Each of their full ...

WE ARE WINTER’S BLUE AND RADIANT CHILDREN- "NO MORE APOCALYPSE FATHER" (Album Review) Sept. 12, 2024

"NO MORE APOCALYPSE FATHER"
by WE ARE WINTER’S BLUE AND RADIANT CHILDREN

WE ARE WINTERS BLUE AND RADIANT CHILDREN brings together Mat Ball (Big Brave) and Efrim Manuel Menuck (Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Thee Silver Mt. Zion) along with members from defunct post rock band Ada. Within their respective bands these musicians have explored sprawling and spacious songwriting...

Deadletter- Hysterical Strength (Album Review) Sept. 11, 2024

Hysterical Strength
by Deadletter

The UK and Ireland have had a slew of new post punk and art rock/punk adjacent bands emerge over the last decade, many of whom have found international success thanks to their somber melodies with a bit of a bite. One of the latest to join the fray is Deadletter, who hail from London by way of North...

40 Watt Sun- Little Weight (Album Review) Sept. 6, 2024

Little Weight
by 40 Watt Sun

When 40 Watt Sun first emerged in 2011 with The Inside Room, it served as a vehicle for Patrick Walker to take some of the ideas that he had explored with Warning and push them into different territory. Warning had captivated a lot of people with their second and final full-length Watching From a Di...
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