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Empyrium dives back into metal and produces what may be the best album of their storied career.
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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."
Empyrium dives back into metal and produces what may be the best album of their storied career.
Black Sheep Wall has evolved their sound, but not at the cost of ultra-heavy savagery to pile drive listeners into the center of the...
I'm always in awe of the prolificity and breadth of the Melvins. Being active nearly forty years now, they have continued relentlessly to churn...
The veteran Swedish progressive/power metal band Evergrey deliver another consistently good album with Escape of the Phoenix.
“We know that we are entering the final years of our career as musicians: the winter of our lifetime.” – says frontman Fernando Ribiero....
Suffering Hour's latest is steeped in a fog of mystery, permeating from its lofty lyrical theorems and barbaric speeds. The Cyclic Reckoning is a...
While its length can be felt at times, Mære becomes a compelling progression of Harakiri for the Sky's powerful brand of post-black metal.
Chemical Warfare is the exact kind of stagnant album dynamic you’ve come to expect from Escape The Fate. Escape The Fate is a band...
Beyond the disgusting distortion and primitive violence of Gravesend lies an unflinching look at the dark side of the city that never sleeps.
Ireland's God Is An Astronaut can always be expected to deliver. They've been leaders of the post-rock movement for almost 20 years now. But...
Välde is a fantastic blackened deathcore assault, one that brings Humanity's Last Breath to the top of the growing sub-subgenre.
Swedish prog metallers Soen released their fifth album Imperial this month. Keeping up a stream of steady releases (Lotus in 2019 and Lykaia in...
“To climb these stairs again,” are the words that open the latest release by The Body. It is a reading of the poem “The...
Where Gloom Becomes Sound creeps in like a ghost in the hall. “In Remembrance” sets the tone for Tribulation’s most gothic record to date....
Songs for the Apocalypse sees Bieler stretching his artistic breadth by evoking a vast array of imaginative lenses, yet never deviating too far from...
Halloween has come early in 2021. Goth rock super couple Anders Manga and Devillia must have taken its cancellation harder than most. Songs of...
Ruins does precisely what an album of its kind should do: honor the crucial elements of its templates amidst adding enough distinguishing features to...
I love the original Star Wars trilogy, like most people who are alive and not assholes. I was born too late to see any...
Despite what the lion’s share of Merzbow’s discography would hint at, Masami Akita is able to take a foot off the speaker-shredding gas and,...
A Whisp of the Atlantic is a testament to the benefits of quality of quantity, as it never outstays its welcome because it accomplishes...
Weight of the False Self comes after 26 years Hatebreed beating the same horse. Is the horse dead? Well… define alive.
Under Sullen Skies begins a new epoch for New York's Tombs, presenting a diverse onslaught of frightening atmosphere, skull-caving heaviness and inexplicable catchiness—along with...
Translating from Icelandic as “All This Damn Darkness,” Allt Tetta Helvitis Myrkur doubles down on the most haunting aspects of Katla's brand of atmospheric...
