Reviews

The Ocean – Phanerozoic II : Mesozoic | Cenozoic

September 2, 2020

By now, The Ocean occupy one of the most illustrious points in a contemporary metal band's career. They took part in the birth of their genre, namely post metal, rose with its exploding and wide spread appeal,... Read More...

Drouth – Excerpts from a Dread Liturgy

Pete Williams

September 2, 2020

Reviews

I typically find myself doing what I’ve been referring to as “challenge listening.” Not that it’s always something I find difficult to listen to or something like that. Usually, I just try to listen to music I... Read More...

Napalm Death – Throes of Joy in the Jaws of Defeatism

Jonathan Adams

September 2, 2020

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According to every boomer I know, there are only two certainties in life: death and taxes. While existing as the stalest of semi-humorous platitudes, there’s obviously a fairly deep truth to the statement. But... Read More...

Atramentus – Stygian

Simon Handmaker

September 2, 2020

Reviews

In a recent interview with Invisible Oranges, Atramentus mastermind Phil Tougas (a metalhead’s metalhead by any account, as he also plays in Chthe’ilist, First Fragment, Cosmic Atrophy, Funebrarum, and Eternit... Read More...

Expander – Neuropunk Boostergang

Simon Handmaker

August 14, 2020

Reviews

Metal bands who excel are often those who are most masterful at drawing us as the audience into the depths of their aesthetic, at submerging us in the world they’ve created for as long as we can hear the sound... Read More...

Krallice – Mass Cathexis

Jonathan Adams

August 13, 2020

Reviews

It’s been written numerous times over the past several months, but more than at any other point in time it bears repeating here: Colin Marston is absolutely owning 2020. His recording and production aesthetics... Read More...

Serpent Omega – II

Eden Kupermintz

August 12, 2020

Reviews

There's this idea in metal circles that doom metal has to take its time, to lure its listeners in with its slowness. This is actually a more modern concept, born of the current sound of doom metal that was for... Read More...

Incantation – Sect of Vile Divinities

Jonathan Adams

August 11, 2020

Reviews

The old guard of death metal has a progressively steeper hill to climb when it comes to maintaining relevance. The current state of death metal is bursting at the seams with up-and-coming talent, with bands li... Read More...

REVIEW AND EXCLUSIVE PREMIERE: Atræ Bilis foment galactic destruction with “Sulphur Curtain” and their debut LP, Divinihility

Jonathan Adams

August 11, 2020

Premieres, Reviews

It takes a bit for an album to captivate me immediately nowadays. To be honest, the sheer glut of excellent death metal in particular over the past several years has increased my threshold in regard to the lev... Read More...

Necrot – Mortal

Pete Williams

August 10, 2020

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When I listen to a new record, I can’t help but have the thought about favorite records versus critically good records. Or favorite versus critically good anything really. Perfect example: my favorite movie of... Read More...

Dawnwalker – Ages

Eden Kupermintz

January 4, 2021

Here's an age-old truth: fragile beauty is something that is aesthetically magnetic. The idea of the weakness, the flee... Read More...
Deftones – Black Stallion

Joshua Bulleid

December 16, 2020

White Pony (2000) was the record that first introduced electronics into Deftones's sound. It is therefore suitable that ... Read More...
Deluge – Ægo Templo

Eden Kupermintz

December 7, 2020

Blackened hardcore is having a bit of a resurgence (or is it just the original surge?) these days. Bands like Respire a... Read More...
Wytch Hazel – III: Pentecost

Pete Williams

December 7, 2020

With the continuing wave of traditional heavy metal just plowing us all over, I’ve come to realize there’s a kind of an... Read More...