Meg Myers – TZIA
I love Meg Myers, but TZIA is about half of what I’d love to hear from her, and half is cheap, four-chord studio tracks that are absolutely designed to be background music for teens twerking on TikTok … MoreMeg Myers – TZIA
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Litost – Pathos
Offering a blend of showing-off and well-timed restraint, Pathos is an album which punches above its proverbial weight as a band’s first serious offering into an ether of inquisitive fandom with its blistering leads and blackened refrains … MoreLitost – Pathos
As Light Dies – The Laniakea Architecture, Vol. II
A roller-coaster of folks and metal musical elements and movements, The Laniakea Architecture, Vol. II jumps around between folksy elegies and existential nightmares while occasionally blasting listeners with grittier black metal content in a mix-and-mash that failed to get me as excited as I hoped
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Gorod – The Orb
Overall, The Orb is a fantastic example of being able to put together an album that shows the younger crowd how it’s done in the technical death world while keeping a classic band super-relevant into the future … MoreGorod – The Orb
Carrion – Morbid Nailgun Necropsy
Fans of Brutal Death metal will be treated to an HQ-quality offering that is punishing from a holistic standpoint, completely bombarded by vocal insanity over gory, grind-ey goodness … MoreCarrion – Morbid Nailgun Necropsy
Entheos – Time Will Take Us All
Time Will Take Us All is a vocal rollercoaster, never giving the audience a chance to stop and think about what they just heard, proving that Entheos is absolutely going to have a massive year with this release … MoreEntheos – Time Will Take Us All
To The Grave – Director’s Cuts
Deathcore fans will absolutely appreciate this offering for its content as well as the production quality as the band’s absolute best work to date … MoreTo The Grave – Director’s Cuts
Tithe – Inverse Rapture
Non-stop heaviness, wild chord-bending, angsty vocal three-piece madness that invokes the spirit of the pacific northwest death metal scene … MoreTithe – Inverse Rapture
Divided By Design – The Fear of Being Forgotten
Equally uplifting as it is moody at times, The Fear of Being Forgotten is a pleasantly-brief, well-constructed prog album that ought to impress and entertain prog and non-prog fans as it seems to lack little in the ways of artistic vision and execution … MoreDivided By Design – The Fear of Being Forgotten
Pyramid Mass – Monolith
Overall, the Monolith is satisfactory in blending genres, but ends up being holistically better than just an amalgam of styles, turning into something that is, ultimately, excellent to listen to and will be appreciated for years to come. … MorePyramid Mass – Monolith