Reviews 0 Review: Carpenter Brut’s Leather Terror Is a Love Letter to ’80s Horror April 4th, 2022 at 3:35pm Immodest Mouse On their new album, the French synthwavers give us the comfort of dark nostalgia.
Reviews 0 Review: Meshuggah Don’t Quite Feel the Rhythm on Immutable March 29th, 2022 at 9:49am Jeff Treppel Meshuggah’s long-awaited new album could use a heavier dose of Thordendal.
Reviews 0 Review: Sorry, Guys, Dave Grohl’s Dream Widow Album Might Be One of the Best Metal Releases of 2022 March 24th, 2022 at 10:28am Emperor Rhombus Roll your eyes and cross your arms all you want — this slaps.
Reviews 0 Review: Animals As Leaders’ Parrhesia Almost Finds Its Voice March 23rd, 2022 at 12:29pm Phil Boozeman Another incredible display of musicianship from Animals As Leaders, but not their most memorable album.
Reviews 0 Stabbing Westward’s Chasing Ghosts Is a 90’s Intervention For an Unspecified Drug Addiction March 22nd, 2022 at 11:31am Immodest Mouse The industrial metal staples stage the relapse of the year.
Reviews 0 Review: Dark Funeral Bring a Very Welcome End of the World with We Are The Apocalypse March 16th, 2022 at 2:45pm Phil Boozeman If Dark Funeral are how the world ends, then we’re more than okay with that.
Reviews 0 Review: Ghost’s IMPERA Is the Soundtrack to a New Satanic Panic March 9th, 2022 at 1:02pm Immodest Mouse With a satanic excess of nostalgic cliches, Ghost are finally taking on the world beyond metal.
Reviews 0 Venom Prison’s Erebos: Be The Change You Want to See In Death Metal February 3rd, 2022 at 8:42am Emperor Rhombus The latest album by the Welsh death metal upstarts brims with energy, even if it feels a little too nutritious at times.
Reviews 0 Album Review: Is Iron Maiden’s Senjutsu a Worthy Addition to Their Arsenal or a Dull Blade? September 2nd, 2021 at 8:59am Jeff Treppel The album has a surprising lack of two of the things Maiden does best: big hooks and big choruses.
Reviews 0 Album Review: Dream Weapon Ain’t Your Daddy’s Genghis Tron (and That’s a Good Thing) March 22nd, 2021 at 1:21pm Axl Rosenberg It will not be on 2021’s heaviest albums. But it’s already one of 2021’s best albums.
Reviews 0 Album Review: Do Lamb of God Go All Black Album on Lamb of God? June 17th, 2020 at 11:39am Jeff Treppel Lamb of God cements Lamb of God’s commitment to being Lamb of God.
Reviews 0 Album Review: Do Trivium Make it Worth Listening to What the Dead Men Say? April 29th, 2020 at 10:20am Jeff Treppel Trivium try to combine their melodic metalcore side with their commercial radio metal side, and have little success.
Reviews 0 Album Review: The Black Dahlia Murder’s Venomous Verminous April 14th, 2020 at 2:29pm Axl Rosenberg The band’s ninth album proves that they are truly in a league of their own.
Reviews 0 Review: Does Testament’s Titans of Creation Live up to their Legacy? April 2nd, 2020 at 10:24am Jeff Treppel Testament are still titans, even if they’re not creating much new here.
Reviews 0 Album Review: Code Orange Get Industrial on Underneath March 10th, 2020 at 11:50am Axl Rosenberg The band has undergone a creative evolution, resulting in their most satisfying release to date.
Reviews 0 Album Review: Does Ozzy Osbourne’s Ordinary Man Let the Ozzman Fly High Again? February 20th, 2020 at 9:34am Jeff Treppel If this ends up being Ozzy’s final album, it’s not a bad note to go out on.
Reviews 0 Album Review: Kvelertak’s Splendid Splid February 13th, 2020 at 1:27pm Axl Rosenberg FINALLY, a worthy follow-up to their 2010 debut.
Reviews 0 Album Review: Suicide Silence (Mostly) Go Back to Being Suicide Silence on Become the Hunter February 12th, 2020 at 12:45pm Axl Rosenberg The deathcore destroyers’ latest should sate fans who hated their last album. But the most experimental material remains the most interesting.
Reviews 0 Album Review: Cattle Decapitation Create an Extinction-Level Event on Death Atlas November 26th, 2019 at 10:02am Jeff Treppel On their latest offering, the band sets their sights higher than they ever have before.
Reviews 0 Album Review: Blood Incantation Reveal the Hidden History of the Human Race November 18th, 2019 at 9:05am Jeff Treppel Blood Incantation take a big step up from their lauded debut, Starspawn.
