ALL HELL: The Witch’s Grail
ALL HELL The Witch’s Grail
PROSTHETIC
6/10
DEATH PUNK METAL: What’s most appreciative about All Hell’s approach to the swirling of
genres is how the jaggedness...
AVATAR: The King Live in Paris
AVATAR The King Live in Paris
EONE
9/10
LIVE METAL ROLLER COASTER: Just as Carmen Ghia said to Roger DeBris in 2005’s remake of The Producers,...
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...
SAINT VITUS
SAINT VITUS
SEASON OF MIST
8/10
HEAVY MOODY DOOM: There always seems to be something symbolic or special behind a band intentionally self-titling an album so...
CRAZY LIXX: Forever Wild
CRAZY LIXX Forever Wild
FRONTIERS
9/10
HIGH-OCTANE HAIR METAL: Genre cycles come and go, it’s just the
nature of the beast. For every Bay Area thrash scene,...
RINGWORM: Death Becomes My Voice
RINGWORM Death Becomes My Voice
RELAPSE
8/10
NO-HOLDS-BARRED HARDCORE: As should be expected after three decades plus into Ringworm’s tenured career, the band’s eighth studio...
BEASTO BLANCO: We Are
BEASTO BLANCO We Are
RAT PAK
9/10
BASS-DRIVEN MELODIC METAL: Coming off the band’s highly successful self-titled sophomore album, it’s
incredibly exciting to learn that Beasto...
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...
EMPLOYED TO SERVE: Eternal Forward Motion
EMPLOYED TO SERVE Eternal Forward Motion
SPINEFARM
9/10
DEVASTATING METALLIC HARDCORE: Listeners beware! Employed to Serve’s Eternal Forward Motion could be hazardous to your health,...
HEILUNG: Futha
HEILUNG Futha
SEASON OF MIST
4/10
HOLISTIC
MUSICAL ART: Denmark’s
Heilung is part homage to the ancient Scandinavian Europe, part performance
art, part history lesson, part discovery of cave drawings...