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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.
“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...
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.
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...
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.
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.
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...
Considering what’s going on in the world at the moment, a more suitable title for this, Ulcerate’s sixth album, might have been ‘Stare into...
The last time Cirith Ungol recorded an album was before the Internet was invented. Strange as it seems, there really was a time before...
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...
North Dakota death-obsessed whippersnappers pay homage to old-school art form.
Coming out of the Mid-West, Hyborian have been a group that anyone into heavy music should be keeping tabs on. After forming in 2015,...
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...
What do you expect from a band called Dirt Woman? Probably not this. Five songs, three of them thirteen-plus minutes, and a colossal sound...
It only took Chris Spencer and Jim Coleman three decades to twist noise rock into a new form
Lee Buford of The Body, Kristin Hayter of Lingua Ignota, and Dylan Walker of Full of Hell are no strangers to working with one...
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...
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...
