★☆☆☆ If there’s any confusion as to why I’m giving the latest Eyehategod such a low score, ask yourself this: how highly would you think of this album if it was the debut release of some band not named Eyehategod? Ya wouldn’t. See the rest here
★★☆☆ On the one hand, this is a hefty platter of wall-to-wall guitar wankery, with a lot of riffs sounding like they came from the BTBAM playbook. On the other hand, the tracks are so meandering as to make it really difficult to latch on to or remember. A fun enough listen, but not one that’s going to stick with you. See the rest here
★★★☆ This is in many ways just another Crowbar album… but at the same time it’s cleaner, darker, heavier, sludgier, and more expansive. There’s a later-album vibe to a lot of the material here (obvs), but all the same this whole album is a smack in the ass (and you know I mean that in the nicest way possible). See the rest here
★★☆☆ Take any Kurt Ballou-produced crust band, cross it with the slow dirge of an Isis or Murmur, and you’ll get this album. And you know, giving the former’s punch-in-the-nuts ethic enough of the latter’s room to breathe and meander works more often than not. When it doesn’t work, it’s just boring… but there’s still enough here to commend a listen. See the rest here
★★☆☆ If I’m being unkind, I’d call this album a more boring Hellyeah. But you know what? This album is also fucking fun. You will nod your head, despite yourself. So there’s that. See the rest here
★☆☆☆ I wanted to like this a whole lot more than I actually did. It definitely wields an unorthodoxy, approaching many well-worn tropes without using them. And that’d be a lot more commendable if the music had hooks or melodies or other qualities to go along with their unusualness. Still, if you’re a fan of Misery Signals or Devin Townsend, you might enjoy it. See the rest here
★★☆☆ Doomy and dirgy and noisy as you want. It’d be a little unfair to dismiss YAITW as another Converge clone, as they do try to add some twists through this album…. but the comparison is impossible to avoid nonetheless. See the rest here
★☆☆☆ This album obliterates the already uncomfortably thin dividing line between djent and nu metal. It’s equal parts Vildhjarta and Static-X. Ugh. See the rest here
★★☆☆ This instrumental ode to a dying star is groovy, man. Groovy. See the rest here
★★★☆ This album both suffers and benefits from feeling like a slightly higher brow Black Dahlia Murder. It’s refreshing and rare to hear the refinement in this brand of death metal, but it also softens the cutting edge a wee bit. Still, this is a frenetic and powerful 43 minutes, and a joy to hear from cover to cover. See the rest here
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