Église - "Église"https://eglise.bandcamp.com/Rating: 7.5/10 Namechecking Converge is a cliche at this point, but their shadow over the chaotic hardcore scene is so long, and their approach so thoroughly and repeatedly aped, that it’s prett…
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Église - "Église"https://eglise.bandcamp.com/Rating: 7.5/10 Namechecking Converge is a cliche at this point, but their shadow over the chaotic hardcore scene is so long, and their approach so thoroughly and repeatedly aped, that it’s prett…
Lycus - “Chasms”https://lycus.bandcamp.com/ Rating: 8/10 Chasms is a “complete” album in a way few are. It’s one of 2016’s first essential metal releases, the reason going beyond the towering doom riffing or Trevor DeSchryver’s mournful cl…
Showbread - “Showbread Is Showdead”Rating: 7/10With zero previous exposure to “raw rock” outfit Showbread, I was a little apprehensive going into Showbread Is Showdead, the band’s swansong. A planned last album is a tricky thing to pull of…
PRY - “Nodus Tollens”Rating: 4.5/10 Nodus Tollens is an eye-catcher of a title: a semi-gibberish, Latinate term that refers to “the realization that the plot of your life doesn’t make sense to you anymore,”* it seems to promise something a…
Full of Hell - “Amber Mote in the Black Vault”Rating: 8/10Buy on Bandcamp It takes about six minutes to know that Full of Hell is going to have their best year yet in 2016, which is also approximately how long it takes to listen to their n…
Shadow of Intent - PrimordialRating: 8.3/10Buy NowFavorite Track: “The Invoking of the Execution of Worlds” New England symphonic deathcore group Shadow of Intent released their new album Primordial, January 10th through iTunes and Bandcam…
Krallice - Hyperionhttps://krallice.bandcamp.com/album/hyperionRating: 7.5/10 Krallice never sat well with me. Their approach to black metal, which is to play it like tech-death at the speed of grind, is impossible to stay interested in f…
Sumerian Records posted a short 15-second video entitled “#Sumerian2016” this morning on Facebook with a teaser for new music from an as-yet-unrevealed band. Funny thing is that it doesn’t appear to be a band Sumerian ever had on their ros…
New England’s deathcore scene is preparing for a killer new year with two bands releasing new music within a five day span of each other. Symphonic Deathcore band Shadow of Intent featuring members of both bands Currents and In Depths and…
Whitechapel is hitting the studio next week, which is no surprise due to the fact that they are putting out their sixth full length album this year. Guitarist Zach Householder posted on Instagram not to long ago a picture of the beloved bl…