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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.
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.
Several years ago, I discovered Binary Code through the release of their Moonsblood album. After reviewing and serving up high praise for that record,...
Wailin Storms' third LP supercharges the band's genre-bending doom rock with emotive storytelling and terrifying atmosphere.
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...
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...
Even if the vocals don't bother you, Subterranean Exile is almost objectively underwhelming from a songwriting and composition standpoint.
Everything is relative. Some people bag on Lars, others appreciate both his drumming and the part he’s played in advancing and maintaining metal’s relevance...
Benighted has certainly earned their place amongst the death metal greats that have come to light within the last 5 years. I earnestly look...
Jarboe shows us that she's an artist without limitations and offers something altogether different from expectation and definition.
A nearly immaculate celebration and recreation of Ayreon's 1998 progressive metal masterpiece.
Back in 2017, Savage Sinusoid was without a doubt a landmark album, surprising the metal community and boasting the next level of experimental heavy...
It’s surprising that jazz and metal haven’t come together more often. Both genres are rejected by the mainstream, value outside-the-box thinking and are generally...
Kindred isn’t quite as inviting as All Tree, but it's precisely because of its enhanced challenge and atypical direction that it’s so gratifying and...
Metempsychosis accomplishes all it sets out to in terms of transmitting the complex arcs and affections of its subject matter.
Even within progressive metal, bands sometimes stagnate. It seems like a paradox; the very definition of “progressive” implies forward-thinking and ever-changing. And yet, even...
With over 50 years of hard rock debauchery under his belt, Ozzy Osbourne really doesn’t have anything to prove to anyone. After defining the...
The Amity Affliction might be the luckiest band in metal history. When they debuted in 2008 with Severed Ties, their brand of emo pop-infused...
After almost 15 years, Blind Guardian's Hansi Kursch and Iced Earth's Jon Schaffer have collaborated on another Demons & Wizards album, III.
