EKTOMORF: Reborn
EKTOMORF Reborn
NAPALM
5/10
THRASH METAL XEROX MACHINE: All genres of music are active participants in the pursuit of paying homage and salutation to...
CIRITH UNGOL: Half Past Human
CIRITH UNGOL Half Past Human
METAL BLADE
7/10
HEAVY/DOOM METAL: Like many bands, Ventura, CA’s Cirith Ungol had a big list of plans for 2020 scuttled by COVID-19....
EDGE OF PARADISE: The Unknown
EDGE OF PARADISE The Unknown
FRONTIERS
8/10
MELODIC ROCK/METAL: California melodic rockers Edge of Paradise used its time wisely during the global pandemic to create its...
ORTHODOX: Learning to Dissolve
ORTHODOX Learning to Dissolve
CENTURY MEDIA
7/10
MODERN HARDCORE MEETS METALCORE: Nashville, TN metallic hardcore act Orthodox is back with their third full-length and...
ETERNAL EVIL: The Gates Beyond Mortality
ETERNAL EVILThe Gates Beyond Mortality
LISTENABLE
9/10
BLACK THRASH MAYHEM: After two minutes of solidly building anticipation on “Depths of a New Eternity,” Eternal Evil lives up...
TESSERACT: Sonder
TESSERACT
Sonder
KSCOPE
9/10
PROG METAL PERFECTION: It would be unfair to suggest that listening to an album from British prog virtuosos TesseracT front to back is anything...
CHAPEL: Sunday Brunch
CHAPELSunday Brunch
RISE
10/10
INTELLIGENT PARTY FUN: Sunday Brunch is first and foremost a party record. Touching on influences ranging from Twenty One Pilots (“Miss Monogamy,”...
WE CAME AS ROMANS: Cold Like War
WE CAME AS ROMANSCold Like War
SHARPTONE
9/10
WAR SONGS: For over a decade now, Troy, Michigan’s We Came as Romans has crafted metalcore that was at...
GLORYHAMMER: Legends from Beyond the Galactic Terrorvortex
GLORYHAMMERLegends from Beyond the Galactic Terrorvortex
NAPALM
6/10
OVER-THE-TOP POWER METAL: If you took the already poncy, flowery, and overblown world of power metal and exponentially expanded...
BLOODY HAMMERS: The Summoning
BLOODY HAMMERS The Summoning
NAPALM
8/10
GOTH HORROR ROCK: When North Carolina’s Bloody Hammers first creepy crawled their way
onto the scene in 2012, it was on...