Atlas- Sunder (Album Review) Feb. 19, 2026

Sunder
by Atlas

Self-dubbed as Northcore, Finlands Atlas started off with their own take on the metalcore, djent, and adjacent styles but over time their sound has evolved to incorporate a much wider range. By 2021s Ukko they had begun incorporating elements of folk music from their homeland and expanded some of th...

ZAHN- Purpur (Album Review) Feb. 18, 2026

Purpur
by ZAHN

ZAHN emerged in 2021 as an instrumental rock band that was a bit different from some of the others out there. Rather than going purely for a cinematic film score or soaring post rock type of sound, the trio emphasized a lot of 90s noise rock and psychedelic layers that gave them a different sound. W...

Misotheist- De Pinte (Album Review) Feb. 16, 2026

De Pinte
by Misotheist

Out of the bands that have emerged from Trondheim over the past decade or so, Misotheist has been one of the most consistent. Each of their releases has emphasized lengthy arrangements that brought traditional Norwegian black metal with some dissonant elements, and by the time For the Glory Of Your ...

Worm- Necropalace (Album Review) Feb. 13, 2026

Necropalace
by Worm

Worms transformation over the past decade has been fascinating to follow, as the bands sound has shifted with each album. Early on there was more of an emphasis on black metal and death/doom, but by 2021s Foreverglade things had moved towards more of a death/doom and funeral doom forward sound with ...

Converge- Love Is Not Enough (Album Review) Feb. 12, 2026

Love Is Not Enough
by Converge

Converges thirty-six-year career has been one of the most consistent in the metalcore and hardcore spaces, and while their earliest efforts may pale in comparison to some of the later work the number of influential and groundbreaking albums in their discography is unmatched. Over the years the wait ...

Angel Du$t- COLD 2 THE TOUCH (Album Review) Feb. 12, 2026

COLD 2 THE TOUCH
by Angel Du$t

Angel Du$t began in 2013 as a side project of Trapped Under Ices Justice Tripp that explored musical styles far beyond the usual hardcore elements of his main band, but over the years it has taken a life of its own and experienced a similar popularity surge as fellow Baltimore artists Turnstile. Whe...

Karnivool- In Verses (Album Review) Feb. 6, 2026

In Verses
by Karnivool

Karnivool emerged as one of the bigger names in the progressive rock/metal space in the mid-2000s, as they were successfully able to merge some of the complexities of prog with sweeping choruses and memorable hooks. Their earlier days leaned a bit more nu-metal, but by 2009s Sound Awake the band had...

Nightmarer- Hell Interface (EP Review) Feb. 2, 2026

Hell Interface
by Nightmarer

Nightmarer has been one of the more interesting bands in the dissonant death metal realm, as each of their releases has taken the core approach of dense and ever-shifting instrumentation and taken it into different territory. Sometimes they went for a bit more blasting and complex rhythms, while oth...

RONKER- Respect The Hustle, I Won't Be Your Dog Forever (Album Review) Jan. 27, 2026

Respect The Hustle, I Won't Be Your Dog Forever
by RONKER

Belgiums RONKER have dubbed themselves speednoise, a categorization that reflects some of their emphasis on faster tempos and riffs that often blur the line between noise rock, hardcore, and even post punk. Their 2024 debut Fear Is A Funny Thing, Now Smile Like A Big Boy changed gears often, moving ...

Poppy- Empty Hands (Album Review) Jan. 26, 2026

Empty Hands
by Poppy

Poppys transformation over the past decade or so has been fascinating to follow. She originally gained notoriety for her YouTube channel where the videos had a more surreal and satirical slant to them, later going on to launch a music career in 2014. That career has seen shifts between a wide range ...

Megadeth- Megadeth (Album Review) Jan. 23, 2026

Megadeth
by Megadeth

Megadeths forty-three-year career has been filled with highs and lows, but theres no denying their influence on thrash and heavy metal. The band has been on an upward trajectory once again in recent years thanks to 2016s Dystopia and 2022s The Sick, the Dying... and the Dead! showing that this era s...

SOEN- Reliance (Album Review) Jan. 14, 2026

Reliance
by SOEN

Swedens SOEN has been a regular face in progressive/alternative metal since releasing their debut full-length Cognitive back in 2012. Early on the group resembled both Tool and the metal side of Opeth while also channeling plenty of progressive rock. The comparisons to the latter made sense given fo...

Lower Definition- The Purpose of the Moon Jan. 12, 2026

The Purpose of the Moon
by Lower Definition

The past four to five years has seen a lot of comebacks from bands that have been disbanded for quite some time, often spurred on by anniversary shows celebrating a particular album or EP from their discography. One of the latest artists to emerge from an extended period of hibernation is San Diego ...

Blood of the Wolf- V:Indomitable (Album Review) Jan. 9, 2026

V:Indomitable
by Blood of the Wolf

Chicagos Blood of the Wolf has been putting out blackened death metal thats capable of steamrolling everything in its path for over a decade now, and theyve been refining and tweaking their approach with each release. On their latest full-length V: Indomitablethe group has retained their blackened e...

Your Inland Empire- Your Inland Empire (Album Review) Jan. 7, 2026

Your Inland Empire
by Your Inland Empire

When Frances CROWN returned in 2021 with The End of All Things after a six-year absence, their sound had transformed significantly. The bands first two efforts had been heavily rooted in sludge and doom with industrial undertones, but this third album moved away from much of the metal in favor of da...

The Ruins of Beverast- Tempelschlaf (Album Review) Jan. 6, 2026

Tempelschlaf
by The Ruins of Beverast

As The Ruins of Beverast enters its twenty-third year of existence, Alexander von Meilenwalds musical outlet continues to evolve. 2021s The Thule Grimoires felt like a dip further into gothic and post punk territory without losing the immense black metal and doom foundation, and while it was an albu...

Burning Death- Burning Death (Album Review) Jan. 5, 2026

Burning Death
by Burning Death

Hailing from the country music capital of Nashville, Tennessee, Burning Death showcases there is just as much room in that city for scorching thrash and other variants of metal that take listeners back a few decades. With members of death metal band Act of Impalement in their ranks, Burning Death tu...

Sex Dwarf- Påhittad Värld (Album Review) Jan. 2, 2026

Påhittad Värld
by Sex Dwarf

When it comes to noisy punk and hardcore, Sweden has just as many noteworthy bands as the likes of Japan and other parts of Europe. Around the early 2010s there was a surge of newcomers that each added their own take on things, whether it was the D-beat and heavy metal slant of 偏執症者Paranoid or the s...

Nemorous- What Remains When Hope Has Failed (Album Review) Dec. 31, 2025

What Remains When Hope Has Failed
by Nemorous

Nemorous debut full-length has been a long time coming, and that anticipation has been built off both the success of their 2021 EP and legacy from Wodensthrone, which many of their members played in prior to its 2016 disbandment. Where Wodensthrone had a noticeable aggressive and pagan slant, Nemoro...

Cult Member- Gore (Album Review) Dec. 26, 2025

Gore (2025)
by Cult Member

We already have a band called Cult Leader, so why not Cult Member? The latter is a fairly new addition to the world of crossover thrash, having formed in 2020, but they already have an EP and two full lengths under their belt. The most recent is Gore, a nine track, twenty-minute onslaught that spend...
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