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Dream Squasher doesn't stray too far from the path -(16)- has blazed for the past 29 years—one marked with addictive arrangements and inexorable anger.
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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."
Dream Squasher doesn't stray too far from the path -(16)- has blazed for the past 29 years—one marked with addictive arrangements and inexorable anger.
Singapore's kings of blackened death metal are back and they are killing it!
For those with the patience to fully submerge in the proceedings, Geist & The Sacred Ensemble appeals on a wavelength similar to Swans’ The...
What Rise Radiant lacks in breadth and variety—compared to its predecessor—it makes up for with its cohesiveness and refinement.
Good luck avoiding a quarantine mosh when this album hits. Años En Infierno upholds Xibalba’s standard of destructive death metal, melancholic doom metal and...
“We’re only here to have fun, get drunk, and make loads of money!” So says the chorus of “Treasure Chest Party Quest”, the first...
Philadelphia’s unsigned power/folk/progressive metal heroes Lör turned heads in 2017 when their debut, In Forgotten Sleep, shot to the top of Bandcamp’s metal chart...
Dungeon synth fueled funeral doom from Italy? It gets interesting...
On their first album in 14 years, Green Carnation once again prove they are prog metal gods.
Icelandic black metal that features dual vocals? Yeah - this rips.
Several years ago, I discovered Binary Code through the release of their Moonsblood album. After reviewing and serving up high praise for that record,...
Esoctrilihum is a French avant garde black metal project signed to I, Voidhanger Records. This project has been making waves for a few years...
Monolith come all the way from South Africa where they craft ripping death metal - dive in with us!
Wailin Storms' third LP supercharges the band's genre-bending doom rock with emotive storytelling and terrifying atmosphere.
In The Company Of Serpent’s first album as a trio explores light as the prima materia—in other words, the core building block of existence....
Hard to believe its been 15 years since August Burns Red released Thrill Seeker. Once the young frontrunners of metalcore, they’ve matured into one...
An Autumn For Crippled Children isn’t a band, it is an entire mood. That mood is morose, esoteric ennui. A numb feeling of isolation that...
Deathgrind meets harsh noise, sludge and black metal on the latest from Feed Them Death---yeah, it's wild.
Like a lot of bands, Caustic Wound isn’t playing to reinvent the wheel of death or grind, they’re just playing it the way it...
Bringing together some of the most dangerous minds in extreme music, Umbra Vitae makes the meanest music possible and throws it at listeners like a javelin.
Often, I'm reminded of Profanatica's first interview, a grainy VHS dispatch immortalized on the internet. The cult trio huddle around two candles, their faces smudged...
If you’re looking for some new metal that’s consistently guttural, fast, and absorbing, Old Smoke will definitely satisfy.
Even if the vocals don't bother you, Subterranean Exile is almost objectively underwhelming from a songwriting and composition standpoint.
