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...

Fen- ELEMENTAL Part One: MOURNING EARTH (Album Review) Aug. 31, 2026

ELEMENTAL Part One: MOURNING EARTH
by Fen

Fen has been incredibly consistent over the past twenty years, and while some of their earlier work may have drawn a lot of parallels to bands like Agalloch, as theyve progressed the group has really found their own unique elements. Each of their albums has emphasized something a bit different while...

Erdve- Epigrama (Album Review) Aug. 21, 2026

Epigrama
by Erdve

Erdve has made a name for themselves over the past decade by offering some of the bleakest hardcore and metal around, blending elements of sludge, hardcore, and black metal together in ways that were atmospheric and chaotic in equal capacity. At times their first two albums felt like they captured a...

Black Marble- Life in Small Spaces (Album Review) Aug. 20, 2026

Life in Small Spaces
by Black Marble

The past two decades have seen a vast amount of synthpop, coldwave, and adjacent artists emerge, and for a time it seemed like the indie scene was overflowing with different takes on the genres. Chris Stewart formed Black Marble in 2012, and his early work under this name followed explored a noticea...

Reserver- Reverser (Album Review) Aug. 18, 2026

Reverser
by Reserver

Chicago based Reserver began as the solo work of The Laureate member Chad Preston, serving as a way for him to process a difficult period caring for his wife until her passing from cancer in 2022. What may have started as a way to navigate sadness and grief transformed over time as the band moved fr...

Converge- Hum of Hurt (Album Review) Aug. 12, 2026

Hum of Hurt
by Converge

Converge may release music at a less frequent pace these days, but its clear that when they do write and hit the studio there is a wealth of material to choose from. Sometimes this has resulted in splits or EPs released around the same time as one of their full lengths (such as Beautiful Ruin coming...

Evil Island- Terraform the Afterlife (Album Review) Aug. 11, 2026

Terraform the Afterlife
by Evil Island

The Blood Brothers played a pivotal role in my discovery of post hardcore and everything adjacent to it, as their barely controlled chaos and wide range of influences that were melded in gave them a sound that had a lot of unique elements. Their ten-year run was a whirlwind of activity with an EP an...

Cancer Bats- Give Me Dirt (Album Review) Aug. 10, 2026

Give Me Dirt
by Cancer Bats

Cancer Bats has been a regular face in the Canadian hardcore/punk scene for more than two decades, and while theyve shaken up their formula a bit from album-to-album listeners know they can expect some Southern metal-tinged grooves and metalcore heaviness. For their eighth album Give Me Dirt, the gr...

Wealthy Women- Children (Album Review) Aug. 5, 2026

Children
by Wealthy Women

Wealthy Women is a noise rock trio based out of San Francisco, and while they may have only been together for about two years now their debut full-length Children showcases a sense of cohesion and urgency that is not always common this early on. Noise rock is one of those genres that can take many d...

TodoMal- Graveyards of Joy (Album Review) Aug. 5, 2026

Graveyards of Joy
by TodoMal

TodoMal was formed in 2020 by two veteran musicians from the Spanish metal scene, and while their other bands had spanned a wide range of metal styles the goal here was to write a more expansive and atmospheric type of doom that took influence from progressive and space rock. The groups debut full l...

Torpor- Dungeon Descent (Album Review) Aug. 3, 2026

Dungeon Descent
by Torpor (Poland)

Poland has such a wide range of metal talent that one could easily spend weeks listening to artists from the country and always hear something a bit different. Sometimes this comes in more experimental forms, while other times youll hear bands that are reframing classic sounds and finding their own ...
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