Noctambulist – The Barren Form
Denver's Noctambulist imbues the spacious and introspective corners of the death metal with black metal and psychedelic influences that are idiosyncratic and specific to themselves. FFO: Ulcerate, WAKE, and Portal
VOLA – Witness
What a lovely phrase “return to form” is and how lovely it is to speak it in the same sentence as VOLA. Don’t get me wrong, Applause of a Distant Crowd was a good album, even if it did take me a while to fully... Read More...
STÖNER – Stoners Rule
It’s once again summer time, friends. To me, summer is usually a little odd in that it feels very strange to listen to metal of any kind. Metal always feels like a fall and winter thing. You know what I mean. ... Read More...
Gojira – Fortitude
In many ways, Fortitude would have made for a more logical step between L’Enfant Sauvage and Magma. There are moments when it feels like the culmination of everything Gojira have done before, but just as many, if not more, where they feel like they’re rehashing ideas they’ve expressed more effectively in the past, or else are held back by what came immediately before; existing in the shadow of Magma’s template, rather than naturally pushing forward.
While She Sleeps – Sleeps Society
Along with being one of the best modern metal and hardcore bands in the game, While She Sleeps have always been about fan support and self determination. Throughout their somewhat volatile career the band hav... Read More...
Yautja – The Lurch
Depending on how you choose to count things and which albums you consider as "full", it has been either seven or six years since Yautja's last "full" album and by Jove, I've missed them. There are a lot of rea... Read More...
Wreche – All my dreams came true
Here's a question we often get asked (not really "often", OK, but, you know): which albums end up getting a review as opposed to being featured in a column? The answer, as you might have guessed, is that there... Read More...
Pictures of Wild Life – Terrene
Pictures of Wild Life’s existence to this point has mostly consisted of a slow drip of singles. The first of these was the driving and propulsive “Coastal Flora,” which provides some insight into the LA-based ... Read More...
Dvne – Etemen Ænka
I swear that, out of the myriad of things that I love about music, watching a band grow is still my favorite. There's something about the dual image that forms in your head of them, of how they used to be and ... Read More...
Body Void – Bury Me Beneath This Rotting Earth
Body Void have all-but settled in as one of extreme music’s elite with their benchmark-setting heaviness, unloading a similar combination of formidable tone, power, and structure as genre heavyweights Primitiv... Read More...