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...
THE OBSESSED
THE OBSESSED
RELAPSE
8/10
BIKER DOOM REISSUE: Guitarist/vocalist Scott “Wino” Weinrich has recorded with a bunch of bands, but The Obsessed remains one of his most beloved....
GWAR: The Blood of Gods
GWAR The Blood of Gods
METAL BLADE
9/10
THRASH METAL: Nothing can kill GWAR, not even the death of original frontman Oderus Urungus (Dave Brockie) in 2014....
SEPTICFLESH: Codex Omega
SEPTICFLESHCodex Omega
PROSTHETIC
9/10
SYMPHONIC DEATH: It’s hard to imagine that Septicflesh—who just love to spite autocorrect anywhere their name is written—could possibly make music any more...
NO USE FOR A NAME: Rarities Vol. 1: The Covers
NO USE FOR A NAMERarities Vol. 1: The Covers
FAT WRECK CHORDS
8/10
PUNK ROCK COVERS ARCHIVE: No Use for a Name understandably disbanded after the death...
EXHUMED: Death Revenge
EXHUMEDDeath Revenge
RELAPSE
9/10
CLASSY CARNAGE: Death metal concept albums aren’t exactly a dime a dozen, never mind one as effective and razor-sharp as the latest from...
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,...
NE OBLIVISCARIS: Urn
NE OBLIVISCARISUrn
SEASON OF MIST
10/10
EXTREME PROG: If you haven’t experienced the prog metal/extreme metal hybrid that is Ne Obliviscaris, prepare to have your world shattered....
EMAROSA: 131 Reimagined
EMAROSA131 Reimagined
HOPELESS
10/10
MULTIPLE PERSONALITIES: It’s baffling that Emarosa isn’t headlining major tours across the world. Though 131 Reimagined is simply four songs plucked from this...
MYCHILDREN MYBRIDE: Vicious World
MYCHILDREN MYBRIDEVicious World
GOOD FIGHT / EONE
8/10
HEAVY DARK: And then there were two. Matthew Hasting and Robert Bloomfield reemerge after a fruitful...