Balmog- Laio (Album Review) June 16, 2025

Laio
by Balmog

Their name may not be quite as prominent as some of the other European black metal bands that formed in the early 2000s, but Balmog has been one of the most consistent and intriguing acts to follow. The Spanish band started off on the traditional side of the genre, but even on earlier full lengths l...

fib- Heavy Lifting (Album Review) June 11, 2025

Heavy Lifting
by fib

Originally based in Portland but now calling Philadelphia home, fib is a band that has a sense of familiarity to their music but pushes off in unexpected directions. Their self-titled effort in 2021 took a post punk foundation and transformed it into a series of lo-fi songs that seemed to change by ...

Fly! - ...or Die! (Album Review) June 10, 2025

...or Die!
by Fly!

Australian hard rock/heavy metal band Fly! made a strong first impression last year with their two-song demo, coming out of the gate with a sound that felt like it occupied that sweet spot between the 70s and 80s. A little over a year later theyve returned with a full length titled ...or Die! and it...

Coltsblood- Obscured Into Nebulous Dusk (Album Review) June 10, 2025

Obscured Into Nebulous Dusk
by Coltsblood

Coltsblood was very active within the doom and sludge realms in the early 2010s, regularly putting out splits in between their two full-length albums. Following 2017s Ascending Into Shimmering Darkness the UK group would go quiet for some time, only emerging briefly in 2019 to contribute a lengthy t...

Grave Speaker- Rays of the Emerald Sun (Album Review) May 15, 2025

Rays of the Emerald Sun
by Grave Speaker

Grave Speaker emerged in 2023 as a new outlet for guitarist John Steele after the disbandment of his previous band High n' Heavy. Now handling everything himself, Steele retained the doom, stoner, and hard rock elements of his prior work but headed further into 70s psychedelic and garage rock territ...

Abyssal Vacuum- Abyssal Vacuum (Album Review) May 13, 2025

Abyssal Vacuum
by Abyssal Vacuum

Abyssal Vacuumbegan as a solo project of French musician Sbastien Besson that took on a more cavernous and dissonant sound compared to some of his other bands (Dyslumn, Ominous Shrine, Bacchus). Over the course of five years Abyssal Vacuum released four EPs and began to expand its lineup to include ...

The Lord Weird Slough Feg- Traveller Supplement 1: The Ephemeral Glades (EP Review) May 9, 2025

Traveller Supplement 1: The Ephemeral Glades
by The Lord Weird Slough Feg

The Lord Weird Slough Feg is truly a cult band, as those that have spent time with any of their discography often cant get enough of their quirkier take on heavy metal. At the core of their sound is galloping NWOBHM and proto-metal/hard rock, but their exploration of fantasy and science fiction them...

Thomas Erak & The Ouroboros- (AU) (Album Review) May 5, 2025

(AU)
by Thomas Erak & The Ouroboros

The Fall of Troy helped to shape a lot of the progressive and math rock leaning post hardcore sounds in the early to mid-2000s, as their 2003 self-titled effort and follow-up Doppelgnger emphasized frantic yet memorable riffs and screamed/sung vocals that had some sass to them. Following 2009s rocky...

Silver Knife- Silver Knife (Album Review) May 1, 2025

Silver Knife
by Silver Knife

Formed as a collaboration between musicians in Belgium, France, and the Netherlands, Silver Knife emerged in 2020 as a group with a dense and fully realized sound that pulled from both the harsh and melodic side of the black metal spectrum. Unyielding / Unseeing resembled some of the other atmospher...

Masters of Reality- The Archer (Album Review) April 24, 2025

The Archer
by Masters of Reality

Whether youve heard of Masters of Reality or not, chances are good that youve listened to an album founder Chris Goss was involved with. Goss was heavily involved as a producer with Kyuss and Queens of the Stone Age, and has also worked with artists like Lupe Fiasco and Foo Fighters. Masters of Real...

Teitanblood- From the Visceral Abyss (Album Review) April 22, 2025

From the Visceral Abyss
by Teitanblood

Over the past twenty-two years Teitanblood has been creating incredibly dense and violent music that blurred the lines between death and black metal. Each of their efforts has emphasized something different, as some went for more harrowing atmosphere and interludes in between the churning riffs and ...

Messa- The Spin (Album Review) April 21, 2025

The Spin
by Messa

Over the past decade Messa has been one of the most exciting doom related bands to follow. Their 2016 debut Belfry may have had a lot of familiar elements, but even at this early stage the music showcased ideas beyond the standard doom template. On their next two albums the Italian group would expan...

Revenge- Violation.Strife.Abominate (Album Review) April 9, 2025

Violation.Strife.Abominate
by Revenge

For twenty-five years Revenge has been singularly focused on hitting listeners with as much brute force as possible, blurring the lines between black metal, death metal, and grind to get there. Mastermind James Read has collaborated with guitarist/bassist Vermin for much of this time, and while each...

IQ- Dominion (Album Review) April 4, 2025

Dominion (2025)
by IQ

Chances are good if youve explored progressive rock in depth that at some point IQ has come up in the conversation, as the British band has been remarkably consistent over their forty plus year career. Early on they resembled a more 80s centric Genesis, not unlike fellow Brits Marillion, but it only...

The Warriors- Burn Yourself Alive. (Album Review) March 31, 2025

Burn Yourself Alive.
by The Warriors

If you listened to a decent amount of hardcore or metalcore in the early to mid-2000s, chances are that California based The Warriors were somewhere in your rotation. Compared to some of the others out there that got tagged with metalcore or metallic hardcore, The Warriors tended to stick a bit clos...

ArsGoatia- Agitators of Hysteria (Album Review) March 27, 2025

Agitators Of Hysteria
by ArsGoatia

ArsGoatia made a strong first impression with Hiding Amongst Humans in 2023, orienting themselves towards the more scorching and direct variants of black metal while also hinting at some slower and more ominous atmosphere. Considering two of its members had some from the more sprawling and atmospher...

Scorpion Child- I Saw The End As It Passed Right Through (Album Review) March 24, 2025

I Saw The End As It Passed Right Through Me
by Scorpion Child

Austins Scorpion Child first gained notoriety with their self-titled debut back in 2013, though their formation stretches back further than that. At that time the group was a stand-out in the crowded space of those capturing a 70s/80s hard rock sound, and there was a noticeable bluesier slant to the...

Ainsoph- Affection & Vengeance (Album Review) March 20, 2025

Affection & Vengeance
by Ainsoph

When it comes to music thats black metal adjacent, the Dutch scene continues to write some of the more adventurous material out there. For some bands, their earlier work was more rooted in black metals traditions before expanding on later releases, but on the opposite end of the spectrum are artists...

Hempire- The Weight (Album Review) March 17, 2025

The Weight
by Hempire

North Carolinas been a regular source for stoner rock, doom, and everything in between over the past few decades, so it makes sense that a band like Hempire would cover a lot of the in between on their debut The Weight. This debut follows their 2022 demo High Country Hash Thrash and features a lot o...

Century- Sign of the Storm (Album Review) March 6, 2025

Sign of the Storm
by Century

Swedish heavy metal duo Century may have only formed in 2020, but theyve showcased over the course of a demo and full length that they understand the appeal of the formative period of heavy metal and hard rock extremely well and could also put their own spin on it. 2023s The Conquest of Time felt li...
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