HOWLING SYCAMORE: Seven Pathways to Annihilation
HOWLING SYCAMORE Seven Pathways to Annihilation
PROSTHETIC
8/10
EXTREME PROG METAL: For their second album, extreme progressive
metallers Howling Sycamore actually wanted to make things more challenging...
JOHN 5 AND THE CREATURES: Invasion
JOHN 5 AND THE CREATURES Invasion
10/10
GROUNDBREAKING GUITAR INSTRUMENTALS: Nine records in and the most prolific guitarist of the past few decades just...
BODY COUNT: Carnivore
BODY COUNT Carnivore
CENTURY MEDIA
7/10
RAP METAL: The few people out there who never looked at Body Count as a novelty act whose notoriety was...
DREAM THEATER: Distance Over Time
DREAM THEATERDistance Over Time
INSIDE OUT
7/10
PROG METAL: There’s nobody better at being Dream Theater than Dream Theater. From the punny titles to the dazzling musicianship to...
BRICK BY BRICK: Hive Mentality
BRICK BY BRICK Hive Mentality
UPSTATE
8/10
MODERN HARDCORE: New York brawlers Brick by Brick returns with its sixth studio album, Hive Mentality. Unapologetically predictable, its nine tracks are wonderfully...
GOST: Rites of Love and Reverence
GOST Rites of Love and Reverence
CENTURY MEDIA
7/10
METALLIC SYNTHWAVE: Gost’s head Gost-er, multi-instrumentalist/engineer/producer James Lollar, has gone on record saying this album...
UNCLE ACID & THE DEADBEATS: Volume 1
UNCLE ACID & THE DEADBEATSVolume 1
RISE ABOVE
8/10
ACID ROCK ‘N’ ROLL: Uncle Acid & The Deadbeats came up through the underground slowly, but over...
LIONS AT THE GATE: The Excuses We Cannot Make
LIONS AT THE GATEThe Excuses We Cannot Make
9/10
ALT-METAL WITH A FAMILIAR VOICE: While three former members of Ill Niño (guitarists Diego Verduzco and Ahrue Luster,...
DRUGS OF FAITH: Decay
DRUGS OF FAITH Decay
SELFMADEGOD
7/10
GRIND ‘N’ ROLL: For better or for worse, this Maryland trio has carved out a niche for itself in underground grind...
UNLEASH THE ARCHERS: Abyss
UNLEASH THE ARCHERSAbyss
NAPALM
9/10
MELODIC POWER METAL: The bows are arched and ready to strike on Canadian melodic power metal band Unleash the Archers’ fifth full-length...