Satan's Satyrs- After Dark (Album Review) Aug. 27, 2024

After Dark
by Satan's Satyrs

In November of 2010 I was an undergraduate student at University of Maryland College Park and had joined their college radio station WMUC as a DJ. In addition to radio shows, WMUC staff also regularly brought in bands to the station to play live on a segment called Third Rail Radio, and a buddy of m...

Uniform- American Standard (Album Review) Aug. 26, 2024

American Standard
by Uniform

For just over a decade now NYC based Uniform has been putting out abrasive and heavy hitting music that blurred the lines between industrial, noise rock, and punk. The core duo of Michael Berdan and Ben Greenberg has explored different things with each album, but it often felt like their earlier rec...

Geneva Jacuzzi- Triple Fire (Album Review) Aug. 23, 2024

Triple Fire
by Geneva Jacuzzi

Geneva Jacuzzis had an interesting trajectory since first releasing music in the mid-2000s, as her recorded output often emphasized very lo-fi and weirder takes on synthpop, new wave, and other electronic styles while live performances often took on a wild performance art feel. There have been plent...

Bloodcrown- Sound of Flesh and Bone (Album Review) Aug. 22, 2024

Sound of Flesh and Bone
by Bloodcrown

Bloodcrown may be a fairly new band that formed back in 2022, but its members have been a part of the Swedish death metal landscape for at least two decades as part of acts like Pantokrator, Exhale, and The Weakening. With this in mind, it makes sense that the groups debut Sound of Flesh and Bone co...

Melt-Banana - 3+5 (Album Review) Aug. 21, 2024

3+5
by Melt-Banana

Melt-Banana is one of those bands that has managed to defy simple categorization for their entire careers, and while you could throw them in with some noise rock, experimental rock, or punk, each of their albums has attempted so many different things that this ends up being an oversimplification. I ...

Orme- No Serpents, No Saviours (EP Review) Aug. 19, 2024

No Serpents, No Saviours
by Orme

Genres like drone, post rock, and funeral doom often have incredible textures and peaks to discover for listeners but the barrier of entry can often be quite high due to their lengthy track and album lengths. For every group that cuts things down to a relatively digestible ten- or fifteen-minute son...

Duhkha- A Place You Can’t Come Back From (Album Review) Aug. 16, 2024

A Place You Can't Come Back From
by Duhkha

Duhkha emerged in 2021 with a self-titled EP that served as a brief but explosive introduction, blurring the lines between hardcore, metalcore, mathcore, and everything in between. With members who had spent time in bands like Eighteen Visions, Graf Orlock, Teeth, and Seizures the barely controlled ...

Mausoleum- Defiling the Decayed (Album Review) Aug. 14, 2024

Defiling the Decayed
by Mausoleum

They may not be nearly as well known as some of the other US death metal bands out there, but Pennsylvania based Mausoleum has been offering up zombie and horror themed death metal since 2001. Part of this is likely due to the infrequent nature of their releases, as they had an eight-year gap betwee...

Common Sage- Nostos | Algos (EP Review) Aug. 8, 2024

Nostos | Algos
by Common Sage

Brooklyns Common Sage has been occupying the space between emo, alternative rock, and post hardcore since introducing themselves with "Where Are You? I'm in Klamath Falls, Are You Here?" back in 2018. Since that time their sound has continued to evolve as the lineup has gone through some changes, an...

Iniquitous Monolith- Monstrous Degradation (Album Review) Aug. 7, 2024

Monstrous Degradation
by Iniquitous Monolith

Brutal death metal is one of those styles where I tend to be fairly picky, as for every band that offers some great songwriting and filthy production alongside the expected guttural vocals, blasting, and grooves, youve got hundreds of groups with the same exact patterns and extremely rough productio...

Nova Charisma- Metropolitan (Album Review) Aug. 6, 2024

Metropolitan
by Nova Charisma

Post hardcore/progressive rock group Sianvar may have gone their separate ways in 2019, but it didnt take long for guitarist Sergio Medina and vocalist Donovan Melero to form a new project and explore a different side of their established sounds. The duo named their new group Nova Charisma and quick...

J.R.C.G.- Grim Iconic...(Sadistic Mantra) (Album Review) Aug. 1, 2024

Grim Iconic​.​.​.​(​Sadistic Mantra)
by J.R.C.G.

Tacoma, Washington based Justin R. Cruz Gallego started releasing solo material under the name J.R.C.G. a few years ago, but the musician has also been a part of noise rock band Dreamdecay since the early 2010s. Where Dreamdecay explored post punk, no wave, and other elements with a noise rock found...

Kaonashi- A Second Chance At Forever: The Brilliant Lies From Casey Diamond (EP Review) July 26, 2024

A Second Chance At Forever: The Brilliant Lies From Casey Diamond
by Kaonashi

Kaonashi continues to be one of the more interesting bands to emerge in the post hardcore and metalcore space in the last decade. The Philadelphia based group has offered listeners a sound that was both nostalgic and fresh, capturing everything from Warped Tour era emo and pop punk to metalcore and ...

Iress- Sleep Now, In Reverse (Album Review) July 24, 2024

Sleep Now, In Reverse
by Iress

For over a decade now Los Angeles based Iress has been offering their own take on shoegaze, doom, alternative rock, and everything in between. Where some of the other bands in this space used doom as their foundation and layered the softer, dreamier textures over top, Iress has often felt more rock ...

Doomboyz- Evil Riffs From Los Angeles (Album Review) July 23, 2024

Evil Riffs From Los Angeles
by Doomboyz

Doomboyz may have only formed back in 2022, but theyve come out of the gate with a fully formed and confident sound on debut full-length Evil Riffs From Los Angeles. Based on the band name and cover art, you might be expecting anything from Sabbath worshipping doom to gnarly sludge, but their actual...

Tron Austin- Better Days (EP Review) July 19, 2024

Better Days
by Tron Austin

When it comes to the children of prominent musicians and music related figures, its always interesting to see if they tread similar ground as their parents or go off in drastically different directions. Sometimes you get bands like Vended that tread very close to what two of their members parents di...

Sear Bliss- Heavenly Down (Album Review) July 17, 2024

Heavenly Down
by Sear Bliss

They may not have quite as much notoriety as some of the other black metal bands that formed in the early 90s, but Hungarys Sear Bliss has arguably released some of the more interesting atmospheric and melodic black metal out there. One of the differentiating elements for Sear Bliss besides their co...

Vuur & Zijde- Boezem (Album Review) July 11, 2024

Boezem
by Vuur & Zijde

Parts of the Dutch black metal scene are undergoing a significant transformation right now, as artists continue to channel influences from outside of metal and shift them into new and exciting forms. Where a lot of the more prominent acts started off on the rawer or atmospheric side of the spectrum,...

Gjendød- Livskramper (Album Review) July 10, 2024

Livskramper
by Gjendød

Despite the sheer amount of material theyve released over the last nine years, Norwegian duo Gjendd has always offered something a little different. Early on they leaned into the more straightforward and raw variants of second-wave black metal, but with each album there have been subtle shifts in so...

Battlesnake- The Rise and Demise of the Motorsteeple (Album Review) July 9, 2024

The Rise and Demise of The Motorsteeple
by Battlesnake

Battlesnake is one of those band names thats such a good fit for rock and metal that you have to wonder how there havent already been a bunch of artists who have used it. Based on that name, you might expect that the Sydney, Australia based group might fall somewhere between stoner rock, heavy metal...
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