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...
LAKE OF TEARS: Ominous
LAKE OF TEARS Ominous
AFM
6/10
A MIXED BAG: The story of heavy metal has been full of bands whose careers progressed to places...
THE BLACK DAHLIA MURDER: Verminous
THE BLACK DAHLIA MURDER Verminous
METAL BLADE
8/10
MODERN DEATH METAL: The Black Dahlia Murder’s newest album is Verminous, and ever since their first...
MUSHROOMHEAD: A Wonderful Life
MUSHROOMHEAD A Wonderful Life
NAPALM
8/10
INDUSTRIAL ALT-METAL: An unofficial feud between Des Moines’ Slipknot and Cleveland’s Mushroomhead has existed for years. Although there...
SEVENDUST: Blood & Stone
SEVENDUST Blood & Stone
RISE
8/10
ALT-METAL/HARD ROCK: Carving out a distinctive and long-lasting career in the music business these days is almost impossible....
PAN/SCAN: Kosmonauter
PAN/SCAN Kosmonauter
CINEPLOIT
9/10
REMIX AND REWIND: The term “pan and scan” means different things to different people. For some, it’s a somewhat nostalgic...