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A good chunk of May You Be Held finds Sumac leaving metal behind in favor of non-linear, textural explorations.
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Songs for the Apocalypse sees Bieler stretching his artistic breadth by evoking a vast array of imaginative lenses, yet never deviating too far from...
Halloween has come early in 2021. Goth rock super couple Anders Manga and Devillia must have taken its cancellation harder than most. Songs of...
Ruins does precisely what an album of its kind should do: honor the crucial elements of its templates amidst adding enough distinguishing features to...
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...
The Portland, Maine band delivers a strong effort on their new album.
33 years after the band made grindcore what it is today with Scum, Napalm Death continues its penchant for inspired brutality.
There is a buzz going on in this city, an incessant electric hum that never shuts up. It has become all too familiar, practically...
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...
There’s something about the South that evokes a keen sense of melancholy and nostalgia. The vast, mountainous landscapes splashed against searing, crimson skies are...
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.
Titan To Tachyons does to progressive stoner metal what Behold… The Arctopus did to tech-death, pushing their eccentricities to the limit.
Holocene Extinction is above and beyond the band’s past material. Not only that, it is an album that has arrived at the perfect time...
By no means flawless, Alter Ego improves upon Темна Маса in every way, giving listeners a more expansive, developed, and sustained experience.
New York City Trio Imperial Triumphant heralds the return of the Roaring ‘20s with a dystopian labyrinth of black metal and jazz.
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!
In this day and age metal has no shortage of subgenres. This ensures a multitude of directions and new opportunities for artistry to grow....
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...
Italian death metal band Bedsore comes through with a powerful debut of savage heaviness, transportive psychedelia and unnerving atmosphere.
