Into the Pit // Q1, 2021
Hey there Headbangers!
Has it been a stacked few months for thrash metal, or what! The thrash train kept right on rolling through Christmas and into the new year, with absolutely no sign of slowing down. On ... Read More...
Hey! Listen to Lascaille’s Shroud!
Lascaille's Shroud is a one-man progressive melodeath project, helmed by Brett Windnagle. Along with taking its name from Alystair Reynolds' Revelation Space series (2000–) (which I promise I'll get around to r... Read More...
Hey! Listen to Carnosus!
Sweden's Carnosus recommend themselves as being "For fans of REVOCATION, THE BLACK DAHLIA MURDER, SYLOSIS, ARSIS, AT THE GATES and RIVERS OF NIHIL"– a description that (apart from seemingly being custom-tailore... Read More...
Hath – Of Rot and Ruin
2018 was a big year for progressive death metal, with outstanding releases coming from the likes of Rivers of Nihil, Alkaloid, Slugdge, Obscura and Beyond Creation – just to name a few. However, those bands al... Read More...
The Anatomy Of: Hath
We'll have a full review coming later in the week, but what you need to know right now is that Hath's Of Rot and Ruin is easily one of the best albums of 2019. With their debut LP, the New Jersey quartet have ... Read More...
Editors’ Picks – November 2018
November might as well be dubbed “the month that time forgot”. In the States, it at least has Thanksgiving in it, which gives it some kind of unique character. Elsewhere, that’s not even true and in many places... Read More...
Release Day Roundup – 11/2/18
Each month, we always seem to come to the same conclusion when it comes to our Editors’ Picks column: Friday release days open the floodgates and unleash a seemingly endless stream of quality new music. But whi... Read More...
142 – We Live In A Society
Slow news week, so we go on a lot of tangents. There's still some new music out there though. Green Day side project The Mermaids, Arsis, Thomas Giles, Psycroptic, The Ocean, and The Dali Thundering Concept/The Algorithm. Then we do some cool people time with Venom and Assassin's Creed: Odyssey. Enjoy!
139 – Dr. Phil And The Hyper-Real
Heavy Pod Is Heavy Cast!
This week we have a bunch of weird shit. Dr. Phil performing with Good Charlotte, Betraying the Martyrs covering Avenged Sevenfold, and then some normal news. Like new music from Black Queen, Psycroptic, Cryptopsy, Irreversible Mechanism and Arsis. Also, a feel-good story about The Ghost Inside. Then we do a cool people section on Ozark, Marvel's Spider-Man (PS4) and Destiny 2. Enjoy!
Reprisal – None Survive The Sun
In order to understand why this Reprisal album is great, we need to break down its elements and try to understand the relationship between death metal and thrash metal. The genres are incestuous in their origin... Read More...