Best of 2018
Read what our reviewer Nicholas picked for his 40 (FORTY) favorite albums of 2018!
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Read what our reviewer Nicholas picked for his 40 (FORTY) favorite albums of 2018!
If you are a fan of heavy metal music, it’s certainly a great time to be alive. We are in the midst of an...
Lurking behind the wall of trends and polished tides of sound are bands whose output dwells within stranger realms—unattached to the expectations of the...
Another year is just about in the books. As the world teeters further and further toward the chasm of total breakdown, we the good...
One thing RAM has had a knack for and continues to sharpen is their ability to craft really hooky vocal lines and memorable melodies,...
If a heavy metal album could carry a listener into the very crucible of calamity, it is 1755
When the beloved Amebix called it quits after a brief reformation, Rob 'The Baron' Miller resurrected the feeling of his unique work in the...
orward Into The Past may not be quite as immediately edgy or catchy as efforts past, but after it has had time to ruminate...
The High Heat Licks Against Heaven blends its disparate elements into an absorbing listen, and as such makes it one of the stronger releases...
Aborym has always been a band swathed in black metal wrapping paper that, once torn open with the zeal of a child on their...
Music is a drug, some say. I would go a bit farther and suggest that music is the drug. Its promises are real, its...
Winter's Gate is very carefully wrought; it envelops the listener like the blazing hearth-fire in some long-ago Nordic hall.
Album number seven sees Inquisition both pushing for new horizons while also showing signs of growing a bit too comfortable with their own formula
The Vision Bleak continue their successful ways with another solid, memorable, if not completely spectacular album to add to their growing discography.
Black metal may have been birthed within the frozen winter landscapes of Scandinavia, but it was only an eye blink of time before it...
Well its that time of year again, loyal readers. As you race to find gifts for relatives who mostly annoy the shit out of...
With a history stretching back to 1995, Ösnabruck, Germany's occult masters Secrets of the Moon have managed, over the course of five full-lengths and...
Their debut full-length, The Flame of Eternity's Decline, first saw life in 2005 via Oriana Music, and helped to solidify Khors as a force...
Hooded Menace incorporates some rocking parts before a wash of distortion heralds a trippy instrumental departure, showcasing the diversity of sound that elevates them...
Along with Dismember, Unleashed, and Entombed, Grave stands for a sound that was birthed and perfected in Sweden. Unfailingly loyal to the genre, Lindgren...
London, England's venerable and vicious Killing Joke is a band that, arguably, has been coming so close to its classic era of late that...
As much Liszt as Limbonic Art, Lychgate combine the avant-garde leanings of unconventional time signatures, classical music, but build each level onto a harsh...
o dismiss this record because of the specious, irrelevant claims of the do-nothings who have detracted it is utter foolery. M is a triumph...
