Gun Boat- But The Machine Demands Blood (Album Review) Dec. 19, 2024

But The Machine Demands Blood
by Gun Boat

There isnt a lot of information out there about Brooklyn based Gun Boat, as while their Bandcamp page may list the names of their members and their Instagram profile has a few scattered photos, thats about all listeners who may stumble upon their music have to go on. But letting your music do the ta...

Mirzam Antidotum ov Marazm- .​.​.​There Is No Emptiness​.​.​. (Album Review) Dec. 16, 2024

.​.​.​There Is No Emptiness​.​.​.
by Mirzam Antidotum ov Marazm

Poland continues to deliver a broad range of bands within black and death metal, as while there are plenty that skew towards more orthodox interpretations of the genre there are also just as many going for something a little different. Mirzam Antidotum ov Marazm skews towards the latter end of the s...

Deinonychus- Fatalist (Album Review) Dec. 11, 2024

Fatalist
by Deinonychus

Deinonychus was one of the early trailblazers when it came to fusing the raw, abrasive qualities of black metal and crushing weight and atmosphere of doom. Throughout their initial fifteen year run the group shifted from album to album, sometimes bringing in more of a depressive black metal sound wh...

Lord Goblin- Lord Goblin (Album Review) Dec. 9, 2024

Lord Goblin
by Lord Goblin

Lord Goblins debut full-length passed me by when it first came out digitally in March, but thanks to No Remorse Records picking it up for a CD/vinyl release in November I had the opportunity to spend time with a band thats doing some very cool things within the heavy metal genre. While theyre based ...

Atomic Prey- Atomic Prey (Album Review) Dec. 4, 2024

Atomic Prey
by Atomic Prey

When it comes to D-beat and noisier punk, Iron Lung Records continues to be one of the go-to labels when you want music thats going to bludgeon you repeatedly in a short period of time but have elements that stand out from the crowd. Portlands Atomic Prey fits this description perfectly, as their se...

Jager Henry- Heart of Thorns (EP Review) Dec. 3, 2024

Heart of Thorns
by Jager Henry

In the music industry its not uncommon to see children of prominent musicians pursuing their own careers, but in recent years Ive come across quite a few that have gone in very differing stylistic directions from their parents. Sometimes there is overlap and the output is rooted in the genre their p...

Abhorration- Demonolatry (Album Review) Dec. 2, 2024

Demonolatry
by Abhorration

Abhorration may be a fairly new band, but its members have been a part of a slew of other acts spanning just about every genre of metal. With this in mind, its not that surprising that their take on death metals faster and more rabid origins had a bit more polish and precision from the very start. 2...

Deus Mortem- Thanatos (Album Review) Nov. 26, 2024

Thanatos
by Deus Mortem

Over the past sixteen years, Deus Mortem has become another noteworthy face within Polish black metal thanks to their ability to balance rawer, traditional black metal with more subtle melodies and transitions. Like many in the genre who have been around for a decade or longer, as time has gone on t...

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...
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