VARIALS: Scars for You to Remember
VARIALSScars for You to Remember
FEARLESS
8/10
ATMOSPHERIC HARDCORE: Amid extremes, balance emerges. Since their debut album Pain Again in 2017, hardcore quintet Varials has worked tirelessly...
NILE: Vile Nilotic Rites
NILE Vile Nilotic Rites
NUCLEAR BLAST
9/10
BRUTAL TECH DEATH METAL:
Egyptian academia death metal band, Nile, has gloriously returned to form with
its ninth full-length...
KILLER BE KILLED: Reluctant Hero
KILLER BE KILLED Reluctant Hero
NUCLEAR BLAST
9/10
GROOVE METAL/MODERN ROCK: While Killer Be Killed’s 2014 self-titled debut record was praised by fans and...
FLOTSAM AND JETSAM: Blood in the Water
FLOTSAM AND JETSAM Blood in the Water
AFM
8/10
SPEED/THRASH METAL: Legendary Phoenix thrashers Flotsam and Jetsam have aged rather well. Riding out the...
WOLVES IN THE THRONE ROOM: Primordial Arcana
WOLVES IN THE THRONE ROOM Primordial Arcana
RELAPSE
10/10
BLACK METAL: From the depths of the cool mountain forests of the Pacific Northwest, atmospheric black metal...
FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH: F8
FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH F8
BETTER NOISE
9/10
POWERFUL POP METAL: After a somewhat lackluster release in 2018’s And Justice for None (aside from perhaps the...
TRIPTYKON: Requiem (Live at Roadburn 2019)
TRIPTYKON Requiem (Live at Roadburn 2019)
CENTURY MEDIA
9/10
After over 30 years, Triptykon has released Requiem (Live at Roadburn 2019)—a performance dedicated to Martin Eric Ain...
MINISTRY: Moral Hygiene
MINISTRY Moral Hygiene
NUCLEAR BLAST
8/10
INDUSTRIAL METAL: Timelessness in songs and song lyrics is much more difficult to achieve that it appears. Think of all...
WAR OF AGES: Alpha
WAR OF AGESAlpha
FACEDOWN
8/10
METALCORE: The metalcore genre is arguably one of the more maligned in all of the metal spectrum. Copycatted and rehashed to...
FOSCOR: Els Sepulcres Blancs
FOSCOR Els Sepulcres Blancs
SEASON OF MIST
7/10
ATOMPSHERIC
PROGRESSIVE METAL:
It’s been a good decade since Groans to
the Guilty, this Barcelona band’s first lunge away from the second...