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Beyond the disgusting distortion and primitive violence of Gravesend lies an unflinching look at the dark side of the city that never sleeps.
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Beyond the disgusting distortion and primitive violence of Gravesend lies an unflinching look at the dark side of the city that never sleeps.
Välde is a fantastic blackened deathcore assault, one that brings Humanity's Last Breath to the top of the growing sub-subgenre.
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...
Sólstafir brings its massive arrangements and rustic grit to notably accessible territory, rounded off by some callbacks to a savage past.
Emma Ruth Rundle & Thou bring the best out of each other, with plenty of sonic staples for fans of both artists to chew...
The long-awaited fourth album from Mr. Bungle returns to the band's thrash metal roots, seeking to realize the potential of its first demo.
Endarkenment leans harder into overwhelming speed and aggression when it counts most.
The second half of The Ocean's Phanerozoic dualogy uses kaleidoscopic heaviness to relate the human condition to a 541-million-year cosmic tragedy.
A good chunk of May You Be Held finds Sumac leaving metal behind in favor of non-linear, textural explorations.
33 years after the band made grindcore what it is today with Scum, Napalm Death continues its penchant for inspired brutality.
With its latent relevance manifesting through the "Cavernous Death Metal" micro-genre, Incantation has a special opportunity to stick to its guns.
Titan To Tachyons does to progressive stoner metal what Behold… The Arctopus did to tech-death, pushing their eccentricities to the limit.
New York City Trio Imperial Triumphant heralds the return of the Roaring ‘20s with a dystopian labyrinth of black metal and jazz.
Italian death metal band Bedsore comes through with a powerful debut of savage heaviness, transportive psychedelia and unnerving atmosphere.
Perhaps because the band had to recover, hunker down and hammer it out against the odds, Palimpsest contains some of Protest The Hero's most...
Ulthar uses erratic experimentalism to mold the timeless essentials of death metal and black metal into an exhilarating, hellish adrenaline shot.
Though Kall originated from a band rooted in frigid misanthropy, the band's long-expected sophomore album brings vibrant warmth to the band’s tortured aura.
With a few notable detours, this self-titled album is a solid reminder of why Lamb of God rose to the top of the New...
Eye of Nix’s third album of baroque black/doom metal has a much better production value, but it's still otherworldly in its bizarre beauty.
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.
For those with the patience to fully submerge in the proceedings, Geist & The Sacred Ensemble appeals on a wavelength similar to Swans’ The...