La Torture Des Tenebres - “Acadian Nights/Choirs of Emptiness”Rating: 7/10Stream and buy on their Bandcamp We don’t know too much about Ottawan black metal band La Torture Des Tenebres (French for “torture of darkness,” roughly), but we ca…
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La Torture Des Tenebres - “Acadian Nights/Choirs of Emptiness”Rating: 7/10Stream and buy on their Bandcamp We don’t know too much about Ottawan black metal band La Torture Des Tenebres (French for “torture of darkness,” roughly), but we ca…
Ghoulgotha - “To Starve The Cross”Rating: 8.5/10Buy from iTunes or Bandcamp Only in death metal reviews can words like “depraved,” “diseased,” “rotten,” “filthy,” “putrid,” “rancid,” “foul,” and the like be used to praise a musician’s work…
Gojira - “Magma”Rating: 8/10Buy on iTunes or from their merch store Change seems to be the overarching theme of 2016 for metal, more than even in previous years. It’s a well-beaten horse to talk about “change” this broadly, but as we pass…
Whitechapel - “Mark of the Blade”7.1/10 Reviewed Before Release Stream / Amazon MusicWhitechapel is undoubtedly one of the biggest names in deathcore next to the godly Despised Icon & the now-mediocre Suicide Silence. June 24th marks the r…
Letlive. - “If I’m The Devil…”Rating: 10/10 Buy on iTunes or through Epitaph RecordsLetlive is a post-hardcore band hailing from Los Angeles, California that has made a name for themselves for their intense live performances and deep mess…
Yüth Forever - “Skeleton Youth Forever”Rating: 8.25/10Buy on iTunes, Bandcamp, or through Prosthetic Records Since Christmas Day 2015, the only taste we had of Yüth Forever’s then-forthcoming junior album was, in frontman Dev MacGillivray’…
Infant Annihilator - Soil The StillbornFirst Single on "The Elysian Grandeval Galèriarch"Score: 10/10YouTube & Album Pre-ordersInfant Annihilator is a name in the deathcore universe that has made its way around to people that don’t even li…
Hypno5e - “Shores of the Abstract Line”Rating: 7.5/10Buy on iTunes ororder the CD from the label It’s really shaping up to be a year for sprawling, ambitious albums. Between Katatonia’s The Fall of Hearts, Cobalt’s Slow Forever, and now Hy…
So, I’m making this status that is very long overdue, mainly because I’ve seen so many more posts about it now that it’s an issue that goes far beyond anything else I know of in any music scene, especially in the “-core” scenes. It’s all a…
Architects - “All Our Gods Have Abandoned Us”Rating: 6/10 Seven albums deep into a music career, you have a formula. It doesn’t matter what genre you play, how many times you’ve “reinvented,” how much you’ve “grown” since your debut: this…