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...

Slow Crush- Thirst (Album Review) Sept. 17, 2025

Thirst
by Slow Crush

Between new bands and old ones coming back after decades of inactivity, theres more shoegaze out there now than ever before. With plenty of artists pulling from similar influences it can sometimes be hard to tell them apart, but one thats stood out over the past few years is Belgiums Slow Crush. The...

Bask- The Turning (Album Review) Sept. 9, 2025

The Turning
by Bask

North Carolina based Bask has been on my radar since the release of their first album American Hollow back in 2014. Even at this early stage it was clear that the band was doing something a bit different than some of their peers, as while they had some of that familiar stoner rock/metal foundation t...

King Yosef- Spire Of Fear (Album Review) Aug. 19, 2025

Spire Of Fear
by King Yosef

Hearing King Yosefs music evolve over the past few years has been exciting, as the Portland based artist has covered a lot of ground with each new release. Early on he explored hip-hop and trap, producing material for Soundcloud rappers and other underground artists, and the music bearing the King Y...

Braince- Braince (Album Review) Aug. 19, 2025

Braince
by Braince

Chicago duo Braince released their self-titled debut at the end of July and it caught my attention while doing some rounds on Bandcamp. What initially drew me in was the striking cover art, which had me unsure of whether I was about to hear some weird rock/punk or something more abstract and droning...

Hammer- Trapped (Album Review) Aug. 14, 2025

Trapped
by Hammer

There have been several bands in the rock/metal space that have used the name Hammer over the years, which is not surprising considering that when you think of the tool words like force come to mind. The group that bears the name Hammer for this review hails from Edinburgh, Scotland and released the...

Cemetery- Thoughts on Life... and Death (Album Review) Aug. 11, 2025

Thoughts on Life... and Death
by Cemetery

German death metal band Cemetery has roots that go back close to forty years, as they originally formed in 1986 and had two releases before morphing into a different band around 1993. Both those releases saw them exploring a similar mix of intense death metal aggression and a more progressive orient...

Electric Chair/Physique- Split (Review) Aug. 7, 2025

Split (EC/PH)
by Electric Chair/Physique

Electric Chair and Physique have both been very active bands within the punk scene in Olympia, Washington as well as regulars on Iron Lung Records, so it makes sense that they would come together for a split. In just under fifteen minutes each group contributes five tracks that capture a different s...

Verdalack- Force from the Grave (Album Review) Aug. 4, 2025

Force from the Grave
by Verdalack

You can always count on Japan when it comes to heavy metal that has the same fire and spirit as the classics from the 80s, and this remains true for Tokyo based Verdalack. While they may have only formed under that name a few years back, Verdalacks roots go back to 2008 with the group Assault Attack...

Arkhaaik- Uihtis (Album Review) July 31, 2025

Uihtis
by Arkhaaik

The Jnger Tumilon collective of bands has produced some of the most interesting metal to come out of Switzerland in recent years, both in lyrical concept and songwriting. Whether its the dense blackened death metal of Dakhma that explores Zoroastrian traditions or Greek mythology centered Lykhaeon, ...

Bootblacks- Paradise (Album Review) July 25, 2025

Paradise
by Bootblacks

Bootblacks has been offering up dark and brooding post punk for the better part of fifteen years, and each of their albums has emphasized a different aspect of the genre while pulling in additional influences. Sometimes this brought in more new wave and electronic elements, while others emphasized t...

Mortual- Altar of Brutality (Album Review) July 23, 2025

Altar of Brutality
by Mortual

Costa Rica may not be the first country you think of when it comes to death metal, but there have been plenty of great bands that have come from there over the past decade or so. Much like black metal from Iceland, if you stumbled across any death or death/doom from Costa Rica in recent years chance...

Drawn and Quartered- Lord of Two Horns (Album Review) July 14, 2025

Lord of Two Horns
by Drawn and Quartered

Drawn and Quartered has arguably been one of the most consistent bands in US death metal over their thirty plus years of history, as their knack for fusing sheer force and more nuanced writing has resulted in a discography with some real staying power. 2018s The One Who Lurks was my jumping point an...

Onirik- Curling Serpents Under Stone (Album Review) July 8, 2025

Curling Serpents Under Stone
by Onirik

Onirik has been one of the Portuguese black metal bands Ive followed most closely over the past decade or so, as founder Gonius Rex has had a way of taking the mystery and power of early black metal and adding his own touches to it. Where his material in the early 2000s took on a more raw and straig...

Slung- In Ways (Album Review) July 2, 2025

In Ways
by Slung

Bands like Slung are a reminder that even though certain musical styles originate from specific regions, anyone can build upon that foundation from anywhere in the world. The UK based group released their debut full-length In Ways at the beginning of May, and it finds them fusing together a wide ran...
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