Reviews
"Servant of the Mind has a lot of memorable songs ... with catchy hard rock singles augmented by some metal moments.
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"Between You, God, the Devil and the Dead is surely one of Avatarium's finest LPs due to its consistent songwriting and familiar yet wide-ranging...
"Simply calling this black metal, or even post-black metal, risks overlooking the ways this band has grown past labels, pursuing catharsis instead of acceptance."
"Servant of the Mind has a lot of memorable songs ... with catchy hard rock singles augmented by some metal moments.
"Doom Crew Inc. is not a bad record, but it occupies a lower spot in BLS's overall ranking."
"It's raw, yet unabashedly refined at the same time. Frankly, this might be Lock Up's best recorded work in their twenty plus years of...
"Moonflowers is less expansive and unpredictable than its predecessor, yes, but it's also more focused and selective. In other words, it feels more poised...
"More violent than a Walmart opening on Black Friday, Persona Non Grata is, frankly, a lot more than I expected."
"Spinning the record reveals harrowing atmospherics, a sense of grandiosity, devastating emotional weight and wrenching mood swings all woven around a diverse stanchion of...
"This is Obscura standing more unencumbered and iconoclastically as they push the quality of their own work."
"Noktvrn is not your traditional black metal record, but fans of the genre will find so much in it to satisfy them."
"In an era of singles and playlists, Deceiver is an outlier, a cohesive collection of songs whose collective impact is stronger than any individual...
"This gears Live in North America more towards completionists and those who are really, really going to miss Mullen."
"This is death metal drenched in gore and brutality. The artwork and song titles say it all."
"On Diorama the band have pushed themselves further, and answered a question I didn't even know I had: can black metal be hopeful? Can...
"Adventurousness comes in the form of an expanded exploration of their melodic side, making it at once the band's 'least' death metal but most...
"If this isn't metal, then the term has lost any meaning it ever had."
"At the end of the day, Still Sucks feels like a precursor of something better to come."
"Coherence is an outstanding melodic death metal album and is highly recommended to metal fans of all persuasions."
"Cryptopsy, Beneath The Massacre, Beyond Creation and Gorguts have all left their mark, but Archspire seem to be the new leaders of the pack."
"Moss Grew On The Swords And Plowshares Alike epitomizes why Kayo Dot remains a laudable one-of-a-kind project."
"Hushed and Grim is the most mature, demanding, and emotionally resonant journey of Mastodon's career."
"Mixing and mastering qualms aside, Lutharo have arrived with one of the most thrilling metal records of 2021."
"The new Swedish death metal band Grand Cadaver brings together veterans of the scene for their old school debut Into the Maw of Death."
"Cradle Of Filth's 13th album might not recreate the torture rack, to put it in Cradle Of Filth terms, but it hits the target."
"The album is a grandiose, 70s revival that would make our metal ancestors proud."
