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If you think castles, ghosts, vampires, and candelabras are rad, then you'll dig this album. If not, well ... nobody's perfect.
Endarkenment leans harder into overwhelming speed and aggression when it counts most.
Corey Taylor. Corey. Motherf$%#ing. Taylor. Finally, the most electrifying man in music entertainment has come back to turn our candy asses inside out, with...
Transitus is an enjoyable and representative Ayreon album, but it can't help but disappoint when compared to virtually all of its predecessors.
The solo, raw, black metal act embraces the most demented parts of the genre on its newest album.
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 modern band that sounds classic? Sign us up!
A good chunk of May You Be Held finds Sumac leaving metal behind in favor of non-linear, textural explorations.
Pharos is perhaps the most succinct yet powerful example yet of Ihsahn's knack for crafting beautifully dense, emotional, and intense compositions.
Like so many forms of art, metal is in a consistent state of evolution and development. A multitude of styles and subgenres have existed...
33 years after the band made grindcore what it is today with Scum, Napalm Death continues its penchant for inspired brutality.
The Glorious Dead has accomplished a real feat here: they've captured the spirit of doom metal, while still playing fast death metal.
Kamelot have achieved an illustrious career over an impressive 30-some years. A band with this kind of longevity and fan-base practically owes it to...
Panther is not only one of Pain of Salvation's best records, but also one of the best albums of 2020.
Your everyday metalhead likes to think of him/herself as an iconoclastic rapscallion thumbing their nose at the lemming-like banality of the entertainment mainstream. Truthfully,...
With its latent relevance manifesting through the "Cavernous Death Metal" micro-genre, Incantation has a special opportunity to stick to its guns.
The unwavering plaintive exquisiteness of No Wilderness Deep Enough makes it an essential journey.
By no means flawless, Alter Ego improves upon Темна Маса in every way, giving listeners a more expansive, developed, and sustained experience.
Upon A Burning Body have never done as they are told. Maybe it’s the band’s Texas heritage, something they always seem ready to bring...
Fleshvessel fuse a huge variety of death metal ideas together making for truly compelling listening. It's challenging, but well worth it!
It doesn’t seem too long ago when deathcore was a frowned upon scene. And to an extent, that disapproval was justified considering the over-indulgence...
The popularity of Bell Witch is one of the more surprising and remarkable phenomena of the past few years. In this day and age...