ALLUVIAL: Sarcoma
ALLUVIAL Sarcoma
NUCLEAR BLAST
8/10
TECHNICAL DEATH METAL: On their second full-length album and Nuclear Blast debut, Sarcoma, supergroup Alluvial crafts a virtuosic masterpiece of technical...
VRSTY: Welcome Home
VRSTY Welcome Home
SPINEFARM
9/10
CAPTIVATING MULTIGENRE GEM: Hearing the name VRSTY, you might think of the multitalented R&B and rock band that is quickly turning...
SUICIDE SILENCE: Remember…You Must Die
SUICIDE SILENCE Remember…You Must Die
CENTURY MEDIA
8/10
DEATHCORE: “Suicide Silence is back to being Suicide Silence,” declares founding guitarist Chris Garza. “It took years of hell to...
SEPTIC TANK: Rotting Civilisation
SEPTIC TANK
Rotting Civilisation
RISE ABOVE
4/10
CRUST: Originally shat into existence in 1994, Septic Tank’s ranks were filled by Cathedral’s Lee Dorian and Gaz Jennings plus Repulsion’s...
LIMBS: Sleep
LIMBSSleep
EQUAL VISION
10/10
RESTORATION HEAVY: In the vein of early Underoath, LIMBS may be the defibrillator that brings the spark back to post-hardcore. Sleep is a...
ENSLAVED: E
ENSLAVEDE
NUCLEAR BLAST
10/10
PROGRESSIVE VIKING METAL: Enslaved has sailed its longboat far from the shores of convention at this point. Twenty-six years into its career,...
THE DAMNED THINGS: High Crimes
THE DAMNED THINGS High Crimes
NUCLEAR BLAST
7/10
POWERGROUP METAL: It’s been
roughly eight and a half years since The Damned Things released Ironiclast,
its debut record, so...
COLD: The Things We Can’t Stop
COLD The Things We Can’t Stop
NAPALM
9/10
HARD ROCK THERAPY: A healthy
mixture of Cold’s previous powerfully morose flavor, The Things We Can’t Stop kicks off...
KIRK WINDSTEIN: Dream in Motion
KIRK WINDSTEIN Dream in Motion
Entertainment One
8/10
SLUDGE/DOOM METAL:
Crowbar and Down guitarist Kirk Windstein put everything he had into his debut
solo album Dream...
VADER: Solitude in Madness
VADER Solitude in Madness
NUCLEAR BLAST
8/10
PICK A CARD, ANY CARD: Vader is one of those remarkably consistent bands, a Polish death metal...