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.
Revisit Reviews 0 25 Years Ago, Refused Made The Shape of Punk to Come… Literally October 27th, 2023 at 12:40pm Max Heilman Even after so many years later, this album is still as poignant as it was in 1998.
Reviews 0 Review: Gravesend Buries the Mean Streets of NYC with Gowanus Death Stomp October 25th, 2023 at 10:48am Max Heilman With Gowanus Death Stomp, Gravesend provides various sonic hues to paint a picture of a tweaker getting curb-stomped in a filthy alleyway.
Reviews 0 Review: End Makes Metalcore Deeper and Darker with The Sin of Human Frailty October 23rd, 2023 at 10:16am Max Heilman ‘The Sin of Human Frailty’ finds End continuing to plunge deeper into an open wound of dark hardcore.
Reviews 0 Review: Code Orange Elaborates on Art-House Hardcore and ’90s Grit with The Above September 28th, 2023 at 10:31am Max Heilman The Above finds metallic hardcore deviants Code Orange flourishing in a musical story of their own imagining.
Reviews 0 Review: Necrotted Creates Uncompromising Deathcore with Imperium September 19th, 2023 at 1:17pm Max Heilman Imperium will be available this Friday, September 22.
Reviews 0 Review: Humanity’s Last Breath Defies the Laws of Heaviness with Ashen August 9th, 2023 at 1:26pm Max Heilman It sounds completely out of control, and maybe it really is out of control, but Humanity’s Last Breath rides the tumultuous tides gracefully.
Reviews 0 Review: Botanist Pushes Their Dulcimer Black Metal Forward with VIII: Selenotrope May 31st, 2023 at 12:57pm Max Heilman By any stylistic metric, the hammered dulcimer-driven black metal aura of Botanist has reached an impressive precipice this time around.
Reviews 0 Review: The Ocean Lands Their Journey Through Natural History with Holocene May 17th, 2023 at 10:12am Max Heilman Though quieter in comparison, The Ocean never compromises the creative drive that has kept them on the vanguard of forward thinking metal.
Reviews 0 Review: Sleep Token Continues to Push Boundaries on Take Me Back To Eden May 16th, 2023 at 9:43am Max Heilman The meteoric rise of Sleep Token may be one of the best success stories in heavy music, and their third LP is poised to spur that momentum.
Reviews 0 Review: The Acacia Strain Mines the Depths of Doom with Failure Will Follow May 4th, 2023 at 10:43am Max Heilman Rather than try the genre on for size, The Acacia Strain uses doom metal to realize new facets of their sound even after two decades.
Reviews 0 Review: The Acacia Strain Brings Unbridled Mayhem with Step Into The Light May 4th, 2023 at 10:42am Max Heilman The Acacia Strain has never sounded more violent and ferocious than they do on this album… even by their standards.
Reviews 0 Review: Bell Witch begins their funeral doom trilogy with a bang on The Clandestine Gate April 21st, 2023 at 9:44am Max Heilman Luckily, Bell Witch does more with The Clandestine Gate than attempt another 84-minute song like Mirror Reaper.
Reviews 0 Review: Spotlights Dial in Their Metal-Gaze Sound Bath on Alchemy for the Dead April 18th, 2023 at 12:45pm Max Heilman Spotlights reflect the decade they’ve spent honing their craft, while also bringing the freshness of a group excited to deepen their impact.
Reviews 0 Review: Liturgy grapples with the divine on the vast, grand 93696 March 21st, 2023 at 12:57pm Max Heilman 93696 comprises a cavalcade of everything the transcendental black metal of Liturgy has to offer, and then some.
Editorials 0 Review: Ov Sulfur gives melody to blackened core on The Burden ov Faith March 20th, 2023 at 11:42am Max Heilman Ov Sulfur has done more than simply release another blackened deathcore record with their infectious, melodious debut LP.