Reviews 0 Infinite Fields: Irreversible Mechanism’s Debut Isn’t Boundless, But It’s Close March 20th, 2015 at 1:00pm Dave Mustein This band’s weakest tracks are still better than most band’s best tracks.
Reviews 0 Oceano’s Ascendants: Like An Everflowing Deuce March 12th, 2015 at 1:30pm Emperor Rhombus Sounds like someone carrying a box of breakdowns who fell down a flight of stairs.
Reviews 0 Symphony & Moonspell: About As Successful As When That Other Band Tried It March 11th, 2015 at 1:00pm Jeff Treppel The Portugese band reaches a new level of bombast — and that’s not a good thing.
Reviews 0 Uplifting Depressive Black Metal: Ghost Bath’s Moonlover March 6th, 2015 at 11:30am David Lee Rothmund “The unquintessentially quintessential black metal album of 2015.” Uh, we explain that.
Reviews 0 Review: Psycroptic Always Keeps ‘Em Guessing on Self-Titled Album March 4th, 2015 at 2:00pm Kip Wingerschmidt Your favorite (and perhaps the only) Tasmanian technical death metal band is BACK!!!!!!!!
Reviews 0 Enslaved’s In Times: Pretty Good, If You’re Into The Whole Progressive Blackened Cosmic Viking Thing March 3rd, 2015 at 3:30pm Emperor Rhombus This album isn’t for everyone all the time.
Critical Condition 0 Critical Condition: Crash Thompson’s Video Review of Liturgy’s The Ark Work February 26th, 2015 at 4:00pm MetalSucks This band is always controversial. Is their new album any good?
Reviews 0 36 Crazyfists Look to Claim Their Rightful Place in the Alaskan Holy Trinity Between Jewel and Bristol Palin on Time & Trauma February 19th, 2015 at 11:00am Sammy O'Hagar Sammy digs the new album, even if the band does sound like they’d appeal to wearers of Affliction shirts.
Reviews 0 Restarter Finds Torche Sludgier And Taking More Risks Than Ever February 18th, 2015 at 4:00pm Kip Wingerschmidt Miami sludge-pop outfit continues to fight the good fight but tones down the busyness in favor of raw might and some looser noisy elements as well…
Reviews 0 All That Remains To Discuss Is A Whiny Lead Singer Whose Controversies Far Outshadow His Band’s Bland Music February 17th, 2015 at 4:00pm Kip Wingerschmidt Let’s examine the idiocy of Phil Labonte, and try to forget that we ever heard this album in the first place…
Reviews 0 Ensiferum’s One Man Army: No Country For Civilized Men February 6th, 2015 at 12:30pm Emperor Rhombus Leave the genre snubs for the civilized—this sh*t rules.
Reviews 0 Sumac’s The Deal: A Familiar Assault February 5th, 2015 at 3:30pm Emperor Rhombus We review the debut from the new project featuring members of Old Man Gloom, Baptists, and Russian Circles.
Reviews 0 It’s Not Just the SEO: (Keyword) Hate’s Crusade Has Near-Zero Relevance February 4th, 2015 at 3:30pm Dave Mustein MS co-boss Vince Neilstein has been digging this album. MS contributor Dave Mustein? Eh, not so much.
Reviews 0 You Suffer Not: The Rewarding Difficulties of Napalm Death’s Apex Predator – Easy Meat January 27th, 2015 at 10:00am Sammy O'Hagar One of the most interesting releases of the legendary grind act’s career.
Reviews 0 Hot Damn, Xibalaba’s Tierra y Libertad Sounds Good! January 22nd, 2015 at 3:00pm MetalSucks This album feels like a beginning-to-end journey in the classic sense.
Reviews 0 Venom Relish Their Lack of Depth on From the Very Depths January 15th, 2015 at 1:30pm Sammy O'Hagar Holy shit, Venom can still kick a fuckton of ass.
Reviews 0 Review: Periphery’s Juggernauts are Juggernuts January 14th, 2015 at 1:30pm David Lee Rothmund Darker, faster, heavier, wickeder, poppier, sexier, harder.
Reviews 0 Serenity in Modern: BTBAM Frontman’s Second All About Delivery December 1st, 2014 at 4:30pm David Lee Rothmund Tommy Rogers’ whispering as intense as a scream.
Reviews 0 Sterilizer’s Self-Titled Release Will Get You Into The Soul-Crushing Thanksgiving Mood November 26th, 2014 at 2:30pm MetalSucks It’s like an industrial, audio Rorschach test.
