King Yosef- Spire Of Fear (Album Review) Aug. 19, 2025

Spire Of Fear
by King Yosef

Hearing King Yosefs music evolve over the past few years has been exciting, as the Portland based artist has covered a lot of ground with each new release. Early on he explored hip-hop and trap, producing material for Soundcloud rappers and other underground artists, and the music bearing the King Y...

Braince- Braince (Album Review) Aug. 19, 2025

Braince
by Braince

Chicago duo Braince released their self-titled debut at the end of July and it caught my attention while doing some rounds on Bandcamp. What initially drew me in was the striking cover art, which had me unsure of whether I was about to hear some weird rock/punk or something more abstract and droning...

Hammer- Trapped (Album Review) Aug. 14, 2025

Trapped
by Hammer

There have been several bands in the rock/metal space that have used the name Hammer over the years, which is not surprising considering that when you think of the tool words like force come to mind. The group that bears the name Hammer for this review hails from Edinburgh, Scotland and released the...

Cemetery- Thoughts on Life... and Death (Album Review) Aug. 11, 2025

Thoughts on Life... and Death
by Cemetery

German death metal band Cemetery has roots that go back close to forty years, as they originally formed in 1986 and had two releases before morphing into a different band around 1993. Both those releases saw them exploring a similar mix of intense death metal aggression and a more progressive orient...

Electric Chair/Physique- Split (Review) Aug. 7, 2025

Split (EC/PH)
by Electric Chair/Physique

Electric Chair and Physique have both been very active bands within the punk scene in Olympia, Washington as well as regulars on Iron Lung Records, so it makes sense that they would come together for a split. In just under fifteen minutes each group contributes five tracks that capture a different s...

Verdalack- Force from the Grave (Album Review) Aug. 4, 2025

Force from the Grave
by Verdalack

You can always count on Japan when it comes to heavy metal that has the same fire and spirit as the classics from the 80s, and this remains true for Tokyo based Verdalack. While they may have only formed under that name a few years back, Verdalacks roots go back to 2008 with the group Assault Attack...

Arkhaaik- Uihtis (Album Review) July 31, 2025

Uihtis
by Arkhaaik

The Jnger Tumilon collective of bands has produced some of the most interesting metal to come out of Switzerland in recent years, both in lyrical concept and songwriting. Whether its the dense blackened death metal of Dakhma that explores Zoroastrian traditions or Greek mythology centered Lykhaeon, ...

Bootblacks- Paradise (Album Review) July 25, 2025

Paradise
by Bootblacks

Bootblacks has been offering up dark and brooding post punk for the better part of fifteen years, and each of their albums has emphasized a different aspect of the genre while pulling in additional influences. Sometimes this brought in more new wave and electronic elements, while others emphasized t...

Mortual- Altar of Brutality (Album Review) July 23, 2025

Altar of Brutality
by Mortual

Costa Rica may not be the first country you think of when it comes to death metal, but there have been plenty of great bands that have come from there over the past decade or so. Much like black metal from Iceland, if you stumbled across any death or death/doom from Costa Rica in recent years chance...

Drawn and Quartered- Lord of Two Horns (Album Review) July 14, 2025

Lord of Two Horns
by Drawn and Quartered

Drawn and Quartered has arguably been one of the most consistent bands in US death metal over their thirty plus years of history, as their knack for fusing sheer force and more nuanced writing has resulted in a discography with some real staying power. 2018s The One Who Lurks was my jumping point an...

Onirik- Curling Serpents Under Stone (Album Review) July 8, 2025

Curling Serpents Under Stone
by Onirik

Onirik has been one of the Portuguese black metal bands Ive followed most closely over the past decade or so, as founder Gonius Rex has had a way of taking the mystery and power of early black metal and adding his own touches to it. Where his material in the early 2000s took on a more raw and straig...

Slung- In Ways (Album Review) July 2, 2025

In Ways
by Slung

Bands like Slung are a reminder that even though certain musical styles originate from specific regions, anyone can build upon that foundation from anywhere in the world. The UK based group released their debut full-length In Ways at the beginning of May, and it finds them fusing together a wide ran...

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...
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