Sammy digs the new album, even if the band does sound like they’d appeal to wearers of Affliction shirts.

One of the most interesting releases of the legendary grind act’s career.

Holy shit, Venom can still kick a fuckton of ass.

Like Rotten Sound being forced through a meat grinder.

Behemoth! Tombs! Mastodon!

Spectral Lore isn’t about where black metal is going to go from here, but what black metal can still do.

On their latest release, the British duo maintains the core of advanced misanthropy.

One of death metal’s brightest aims to transcend sterility.

This band just keeps getting better and better.

What Blood Mantra lacks in the emotional heft or impeccable tech-death of their past, it makes up for by being a whole lot of fun.

These Austrians may have made the best blackened death metal album of the year.

Sammy examines the latest releases from two black metal bands that have run off with the Ulver playbook and are reading from it willy-nilly.

Not terrible, but not their best, either.

Wo Fat nail the shit out of doomy stoner rock.

Sammy thinks we’re iin the middle of a new metal Renaissance (not a nu-metal Renaissance).

And we agree!

Their last great album, or the start of their prolonged decline?

They’re finally back from the dead, even if they are still actively rotting.

Provides a good listen, despite a lack of urgency.