Reviews 0 Review: Deafheaven Rounds Up All of Their Eras with Lonely People With Power March 24th, 2025 at 11:30am Max Heilman You can get your hands on this one this Friday.
Reviews 0 Review: Killswitch Engage Encapsulates the Golden Age of Metalcore on This Consequence February 18th, 2025 at 1:43pm Max Heilman It’s not about to reinvent the wheel, but it’s exactly what makes their brand of metalcore so special.
Reviews 0 Review: Unreqvited Transcends and Expands with Pathway to the Moon February 3rd, 2025 at 12:59pm Max Heilman Pick this one up when it comes out this Friday.
Reviews 0 Review: Stick To Your Guns Sows Seeds of Posi-Rage with Keep Planting Flowers January 6th, 2025 at 12:49pm Max Heilman The album’s coming out this Friday.
Br00tal-lists 0 Max Heilman’s Top Metal Albums of 2024 January 3rd, 2025 at 11:44am Max Heilman Featuring PeelingFlesh, Ulcerate, and more.
Reviews 0 Review: Swallow The Sun Brings Catchiness to Crushing Depression with Shining October 15th, 2024 at 3:00pm Max Heilman In this way, Shining brings a profound melodic instinct to the nucleus of sorrowful doom metal that is Swallow The Sun.
Reviews 0 Review: Chat Pile Diversifies Their Aural Anguish with Cool World October 10th, 2024 at 12:21pm Max Heilman Chat Pile flexes more of their songwriting chops within the mental spiraling of ‘Cool World.’
Reviews 0 Review: Unto Others Deepen Their Goth Metal Greatness with Never, Neverland September 19th, 2024 at 12:00pm Max Heilman Stay catchy, friends.
Reviews 0 Review: Uniform Finds Ambition and Vulnerability on American Standard August 20th, 2024 at 12:25pm Max Heilman Pain becomes art in this new album.
Revisit Reviews 0 How Slipknot Set the Stage for a Modern Metal Juggernaut with Their Self-Titled June 29th, 2024 at 10:07am Max Heilman The sheer raw intensity Slipknot generated on their first full-length remains nigh unfathomably to this day.
Revisit Reviews 0 Twenty-Five Years Ago, Limp Bizkit Pioneered Nu Metal Post-Irony with Significant Other June 22nd, 2024 at 11:06am Max Heilman Limp Bizkit could not have created an album like Significant Other without a genius for bonafide buffoonery.
Reviews 0 Review: Alcest’s Les Chants de l’Aurore Reflects Their Bright New Dawn June 17th, 2024 at 3:09pm Max Heilman It’s still clear that Neige’s approach can never be replicated.
Reviews 0 Review: Pallbearer Hones the Art of Doom Metal Balladry with Mind Burns Alive May 17th, 2024 at 11:28am Max Heilman The thing that really makes Mind Burns Alive a worthy listen is the way Pallbearer commands emotion not through extremity, but through tact.
Revisit Reviews 0 Twenty Years Ago, Killswitch Engage Perfected Melodic Metalcore with End of Heartache May 11th, 2024 at 1:00pm Max Heilman We look back on landmark albums like this one to see how Killswitch Engage perfected melodic metalcore.
Reviews 0 Review: Full of Hell Throws Curveballs on Coagulated Bliss April 29th, 2024 at 12:25pm Max Heilman ‘Coagulated Bliss’ gives a lot of bang for its buck. Full of Hell packs an impressive amount of unique experiences in a compact, lethal dose.
Reviews 0 Review: Thief Refines and Expands ‘Dungeon Pop’ with Bleed, Memory April 16th, 2024 at 11:12am Max Heilman Thief has grown from essentially answering the question “what if someone used traditional church music to make music goth kids could dance to?” to a great addition to the industrial rock and metal landscape.
Reviews 0 Review: Iron Monkey Favors Bash Over Flash on Spleen and Goad April 1st, 2024 at 4:28pm Max Heilman “This album will certainly repel all but true sludge heads.”
Reviews 0 Review: O Zorn! Takes Long Beach Sludge to More Pleasant Places with Vermilion Haze March 11th, 2024 at 11:37am Max Heilman Hooky and heavy, ‘Vermilion Haze’ finds O Zorn! earning their keep as one of Southern California’s most exciting bands within heavy rock.
Reviews 0 Review: Infant Island Augments Blackened Screamo with Obsidian Wreath January 11th, 2024 at 11:36am Max Heilman It’s about time a band like Infant Island broke through the pretensions of scramz, black metal to create something cathartic and thoughtful.
Reviews 0 Review: Project 86 Deliver Us Into a Technocratic Nightmare on Farewell Album Omni Pt. 2 January 10th, 2024 at 11:22am Max Heilman There’s plenty to enjoy on Omni Pt. 2, but Project 86 leaves more room for electronic embellishments.
