Krolok- Hričov - Súľov – Lietava (Album Review) Oct. 16, 2026

Hričov - Súľov - Lietava
by Krolok

Krolok may not be quite as well known as HV/Graf Von K.s other group Malokarpatan, but over the last decade the two have showcased some of the more interesting metal to come out of Slovakia. Where Malokarpatan adopted more of a first wave black metal and heavy metal sound alongside more grandiose el...

Slaughtercult- Devoured by Perversion (Album Review) Oct. 16, 2026

Devoured by Perversion
by Slaughtercult

Australian brutal death metal band Slaughtercult has only been around for about four years, but with several releases under their belt and plenty of touring in their home country theyve started to gain quite a bit of traction. Since 2023s Meat Head full length the group added drummer Matthew Newling...

The Number Twelve Looks Like You- Howls From the Holographic Heart (Album Review) Oct. 15, 2026

Howls From The Holographic Heart
by The Number Twelve Looks Like You

The Number Twelve Looks Like Yous original nine-year run took listeners on a wild ride, and whether it was their earlier days that felt like a chaotic fusion of post hardcore and mathcore with grind or the dips into progressive metal, the band did a lot of things that helped them stand out. But when...

Left to Suffer- Unwelcome Guest (Album Review) Oct. 13, 2026

Unwelcome Guest
by Left to Suffer

Left to Suffer has gained a lot of traction over the last seven years, and while they may have started off on the more standard deathcore end of the spectrum the last few albums have brought in a lot more nu metal and metalcore into the mix. After putting out three full lengths and EPs independently...

Goblin Cock- Traumanaut (Album Review) Oct. 8, 2026

Traumanaut
by Goblin Cock

The number of musical projects Rob Crow has been involved in over the past thirty years is considerable, though most listeners may be most familiar with his work in Thingy, Heavy Vegetable, or Pinback. Pinback in particular gained a lot of traction in the late 90s and early 2000s, channeling a sound...

Sorcery- The Immaculate Sin (Album Review) Oct. 7, 2026

The Immaculate Sin
by Sorcery

Sorcery may not be quite as well known as the bigger names in Swedish death metal, but with roots stretching back to 1986 the original incarnation of the band put out some of the earlier material in the genre as demo The Arrival beat Nihilists and Graves early demos by a year. But like a lot of the ...

Spirit Mother- Thistle (Album Review) Oct. 6, 2026

Thistle
by Spirit Mother

Spirit Mother has brought some unique elements to psychedelic rock over the last six years, as their 2020 debut Cadets seamlessly wove violin and some folkier elements into that hazy and crunchy foundation. Sometimes the album went a bit more rock n roll while other moments leaned into the low and s...

Dead Sea Apes- Psychic Tension (Album Review) Sept. 24, 2026

Psychic Tension
by Dead Sea Apes

Manchester based Dead Sea Apes have released a wealth of material over their seventeen years as a band, and with material that spans everything from psychedelic and space rock to dub and drone theres always something different to experience on each release. The group has expanded and contracted over...

Boy Harsher- Get Mean (Album Review) Sept. 23, 2026

Get Mean
by Boy Harsher

In the mid 2010s Boy Harsher seemed unstoppable, as they had gone from a modest fanbase to a significant amount of popularity thanks to some singles that showed up in a lot of peoples YouTube algorithms. By the time 2019s Careful came out, the groups combination of darkwave, EBM, and synthpop was tr...

tankerlow- SLAGROOM (Album Review) Sept. 23, 2026

SLAGROOM
by tankerlow

Tankerlow has only been around for about four years now, but their sound has shifted significantly between their debut and sophomore effort. 2024s 5301 opted for sprawling post rock and post hardcores bite, capturing the soft to loud approach that bands like Slint pioneered back in the 90s while ret...

Uncle Acid and the deadbeats- Shapes of Midnight (Album Review) Sept. 18, 2026

Shapes of Midnight
by Uncle Acid & the deadbeats

Uncle Acid and the deadbeats made a significant impact in the doom and heavy metal world in the 2010s, with their sophomore effort Blood Lust serving as an album that a lot of people point to as the one that caught their attention. Falling somewhere between classic doom, proto metal, 60s psychedelic...

Maunah- Hjarta (Album Review) Sept. 17, 2026

Hjarta
by Maunah

Sometimes it can take a bit for a bands sound to fully develop, while others come to the table with a natural foundation from that first album. Danish doom band Maunah is a great example of the latter, as its members came together from a wide range of other acts within the rock, folk, and metal spac...

Emma Ruth Rundle- These Killing Times (Album Review) Sept. 16, 2026

These Killing Times
by Emma Ruth Rundle

Emma Ruth Rundles solo material has drawn a wide range of listeners over the past decade or so, as while the core of albums like Marked for Death and On Dark Horses was sparser folk and alternative rock, there has also been a darker and drearier tone that had some metallic and grunge crossovers. I w...

Dreadnought- Wars of Spirit // Wards of Light (Album Review) Sept. 15, 2026

Wars of Spirit // Wards of Light
by Dreadnought

Colorado based Dreadnought has been one of the more interesting bands in the progressive metal space over the last decade, as their ability to seamlessly balance the ethereal and extreme ends of the musical spectrum resulted in a sound that drew you in but was hard to pin down. My jumping on point w...

Family Stereo- The Thread (Album Review) Sept. 10, 2026

The Thread
by Family Stereo

Family Stereo feels like an appropriate name for musician Blake Watt to release music under, considering that both of his parents (Tracey Thorn and Ben Watt) come from musical backgrounds and released material over the past four decades both as solo artists and together as Everything But The Girl. I...

Terrestrial Hospice- Omnicide - Chapter I (Album Review) Sept. 9, 2026

Omnicide - Chapter I
by Terrestrial Hospice

Terrestrial Hospice was formed in 2018 as a collaboration between Azarath/Behemoth drummer Inferno and Tortorum guitarist/drummer Skyggen. Despite how busy the two have been in other projects, Terrestrial Hospice has put out material on a regular basis and over the course of eight years now has thre...

Fluisteraars- Jacht der Mysteriën (Album Review) Sept. 8, 2026

Jacht der Mysteriën
by Fluisteraars

Over the past ten years or so the Dutch black metal scene has exploded in terms of both the number of bands and variety of musical styles on display. While you still had plenty of the old guard from the mid-90s and early 2000s releasing consistent material on a regular basis, a lot of newcomers emer...

Polymoon- Mariposa Magic! (Album Review) Sept. 8, 2026

Mariposa Magic!
by Polymoon

Polymoon has been one of the more interesting bands to emerge from the Finnish psychedelic/progressive rock realms in the last decade, and the way theyve combined such a diverse set of influences has made their material stand out. 2020s Caterpillar of Creation blurred the lines between the psychedel...

Sleep- Hempispheres (Album Review) Sept. 4, 2026

Hempispheres
by Sleep

Sleeps eight year run in the 1990s resulted in some of the most influential doom and stoner metal/rock of that decade, with Sleeps Holy Mountain and Jerusalem/Dopesmoker remaining albums that have stood the test of time. After their initial split the groups members spawned bands that were arguably j...

Agonanist- The Spirit of Gravity (Album Review) Sept. 2, 2026

The Spirit of Gravity
by Agonanist

Agonanist made a strong statement with its 2020 full length The Cynicism of Solitude, which followed up a split with Voidcraeft from three years earlier. Formed as a solo effort by California based Tyler Henthorn, Agonanist focused on microtonal arrangements and dissonant black metal that at times t...
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