Fallujah - DreamlessiTunesRating: 8.1/10 Reviewed Before Release.Dreamless was in the back of mind ever since it was announced. I slept ever so hard on Fallujah, making it hard for me to not listen to Dreamless right as the album stream ap…
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Fallujah - DreamlessiTunesRating: 8.1/10 Reviewed Before Release.Dreamless was in the back of mind ever since it was announced. I slept ever so hard on Fallujah, making it hard for me to not listen to Dreamless right as the album stream ap…
After The Burial - Dig DeepRating: 5.2/10Pre-order on iTunes After The Burial is a up-tempo deathcore band from Twin Cities, MN that have been around the scene since 2004. Dig Deep is the first album the band has released since the late pa…
Naðra - “Allir Vegir Til Glötunar”https://nadra.bandcamp.com/ Rating: 7.5/10 Naðra doesn’t believe in wasting time: “Fjallið” flies at the listener like a lit stick of dynamite. It hurls blast beats, maniacal roars, pounding black metal ri…
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…