Germ – Grief Review
Do vocals alone make an album metal? If Martin van Drunen fronted an album featuring a classic three-piece jazz combo playing standards from the great American songbook, would you be required to call it metal? …
Craven Idol – Towards Eschaton Review
First things first: Look at that cover art. Hang on, hang on, let’s make sure we’re looking at it properly. Click on this, and then LOOK. AT. THAT. If that’s not precisely the sort of …
Urna – Mors Principium Est Review
The Italian label/musical collective ATMF (that’s Aeternitas Tenebrarum Musicae Fundamentum, if you’re nasty) might be putting out some of the most criminally underappreciated (mostly) black metal in today’s metal underground. The average trench-digging metalhead is …
Týr – Valkyrja Review
Just to be clear upfront: Yes, I previously gave Faroese folk metallers Týr the dubious honor of crowning them “World’s Most Boring Band.” Having not heard any of the band’s albums since 2006’s Ragnarok, I …
Satyricon – Satyricon Review
One of life’s great tragedies is the fact that you can never really, truly, completely know another person. We all live rich, stubborn, vertiginous inner lives, playing out a second-by-second drama etched on the interior …
Vattnet Viskar – Sky Swallower Review
One of the most rewarding pleasures of being an avid music fan is watching a new band grow. The vicarious thrill of accepting a new band into your own personal pantheon is usually all the …
A.M.S.G. – Anti-Cosmic Tyranny Review
Unless you live under a tremendously large rock, it will not have escaped your attention that our beloved heavy metal has been gaining interest from more mainstream listeners and media outlets over the last few …
Anagnorisis – Beyond All Light Review
I don’t really know what America is, y’know? A place this big and beautiful and awful and ridiculous, though, I suppose it can’t ever be A Single Thing. (Which, probably, is also what makes it …