EINHERJER: North Star
EINHERJER North Star
NAPALM
8/10
BLOOD, SWEAT, AND HEATHENS: Full disclosure: I’m long since removed from paying attention to Einherjer albums, the last one...
PUNK THE CAPITAL: BUILDING A SOUND MOVEMENT
PUNK THE CAPITAL: BUILDING A SOUND MOVEMENT Dir: Paul Bishow and James Schneider
PASSION RIVER
8/10
There was clearly a lot of time, effort, and love...
BILLYBIO: Leaders and Liars
BILLYBIO Leaders and Liars
AFM
8/10
THE RIGHT SIDE OF THE WRONG SIDE OF THE TRACKS: So, Biohazard apparently still exists. Despite not having released an...
ENTHEOS: Time Will Take Us All
ENTHEOS Time Will Take Us All
METAL BLADE
10/10
PROGRESSIVE DEATH METAL: Entheos is back with its first record in five long years, Time Will Take Us All....
ASENBLUT: Legenden
ASENBLUT
Legenden
AFM
7/10
VIKING MELODEATH 2.0: Two years after their third—so what if we sound like a lightly blackened Amon Amarth turned up to 11?—album, Berserker, Germany’s...
BLESSTHEFALL: Hard Feelings
BLESSTHEFALL
Hard Feelings
RISE
7/10
TRIED AND TRUE METALCORE:Generally, when a band is offered the chance to do whatever they like with their sound (rather than feel pressure...
MOVEMENTS: Feel Something
MOVEMENTSFeel Something
FEARLESS
9/10
LOUD AND SAD: Feel Something, the follow-up to Movements’ emotive debut EP Outgrown Things, serves up a similar taste of euphonic verses, cool...
HOT WATER MUSIC: Light It Up
HOT WATER MUSICLight It Up
RISE
10/10
HONEST ROCK ‘N’ ROLL: Florida’s Hot Water Music doesn’t need to release an album of new material every year to...
PELICAN: Nighttime Stories
PELICAN Nighttime Stories
SOUTHERN LORD
9/10
CONTROLLED INSTRUMENTAL CHAOS: Even after six years between albums and writing and recording their
first album with guitarist Dallas...
STARSET: Divisions
STARSET Divisions
FEARLESS
7/10
DYSTOPIAN ALT-ROCK: Divisions finds Starset traveling further into the dystopian future ravaged by the misuse of technology they created on their first...