✦✦✧✧ Another 41-minute grind/industrial/death/black metal maelstrom, this time with a hint of… growing maturity and reflection? This album is in fact unusually thoughtful (don’t like the song title “Libidinous (A Pig With Cocks In Its Eyes)” fool you), with Dave Hunt’s lyrics touching repeatedly on the state of the Western world. See the rest here
✦✦✧✧ An album length of 22 minutes might seem a little skimpy, but that doesn’t stop these tech death shredders from cramming an hour’s worth of riffs into it. It’s blistering fun at a million miles an hour, of course, but the listening experience is a little like doing shots; I can’t remember much after it’s all done, but I feel like I got hit by a truck anyway. See the rest here
✦✦✧✧ More like Long Album Good Night, am I right?! 31 years after “Nothing Left To Say,” Fates’ thirteenth album of thirteen songs is 72 minutes long (about 20 minutes too many). The songs don’t feel particularly related to each other (and this is somewhat of an aberration in the band’s catalog of albums with unifying themes). See the rest here
✦✦✧✧ Perhaps Pyrrhon’s most accessible album to date… by which I mean that normies will be all “NO FUCKING THANK YOU” after about 10 seconds of this virtuosic cacophony. If you stick with it, however, you’ll find the progressive death metal band’s malevolent logic is a bit closer to the surface than before. See the rest here
✦✦✧✧ Far be it for me to accuse DevilDriver of being experimental, but this album (or rather, this first half of a double album) takes a lot of chances with the band’s formula. By and large, those gambles pay off handsomely, leading to the most brutal yet interesting album they’ve put out in a decade. See the rest here
✦✦✧✧ I don’t remember Paradise Lost sounding quite so much like Type O Negative spent a holiday in Gothenburg. See the rest here
✦✦✧✧ This album is 100% rethrash with solid performances. Fans of Powermad and Metal Church will definitely love this. The production is crisp, although hollow sounding (but I guess that makes sense as an improvement from vintage thrash). Still, I’d prefer more of an Overkill approach to the sound. At least you can hear the bass here! See the rest here
✦✦✧✧ Doom doom doom doom doom doom doom doom doom doom doom doom doom doom doom doom doom doom doom doom… Doom doom doom doom doomy doomy doom doomy doom doom doom doom doom doom doom. See the rest here
✦✦✧✧ This is a bit of a step down from predecessor “The Sin And The Sentence,” but there’s still plenty of the band’s metal-for-the-love-of-metal all over the album. There’s also a conspicuous accessibility in a lot of the material here that might excite the SiriusXM metal crowd, but doesn’t really do much for me. See the rest here
✦✦✧✧ Thrashy death metal from this long-lived band. Fast and blistering from the jump, but there’s something doggedly retro about this sound that fails to inspire true ferocity. Oh well; at least every song on this album is less than 4 minutes long. See the rest here
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