Full of Hell - Trumpeting EcstasyRating: 10/10Stream the record on Bandcamp. Buy it here.Full of Hell. Arguably the most innovative band in the modern metal music scene. Throughout their career, the group has never stopped pushing the enve…
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Full of Hell - Trumpeting EcstasyRating: 10/10Stream the record on Bandcamp. Buy it here.Full of Hell. Arguably the most innovative band in the modern metal music scene. Throughout their career, the group has never stopped pushing the enve…
Shadow of Intent - Reclaimer 8.9/10 iTunes & Bigcartel Shadow of Intent’s genre is always debatable. Some would argue they are symphonic deathcore, while others like myself would say blackened death metal. They emerged for the Connecticu…
TraumaxQueen - Promo 2017 8.4/10 Bandcamp TraumaxQueen is a straight edge hardcore band from South Carolina or the dirty south, whichever you prefer to call it that pushes the boundaries of almost being a punk band with insane groove. I c…
Mary Todd- Bone Stock Rating: 8/10Listen to them on Bandcamp, Like them on Facebook Mary Todd is a mathy grindcore trio hailing from New York that consists of Ashley Levine on guitars and vocals, Chris Day on bass and vocals, and Fernand…
Dodecahedron - KwintessensRating: 9/10 I’m in love with Iceland's black metal. Misthyrming, Svartidaudi, Azoic, Nadra, and scores of others are actively expanding the limits of black metal, following in the footsteps of pioneers like Death…
Fit For An Autopsy - The Great CollapseRating: 6.4/10 Absolute Hope Absolute Hell was a surprise in 2015, showcasing an overhaul of Fit For An Autopsy’s brutal deathcore sound that was affectionately termed “Gojira-core” by some for that b…
Review: Darkest Hour - Godless Prophets & The Migrant FloraRating: 8.5/10 Back when the New Wave of American Heavy Metal was in full swing, Darkest Hour were responsible for melodeath darkhorses like Hidden Hands of A Sadist Nation, Undoin…
Soen - LykaiaRating: 6.5/10 The parallels to Tool and Opeth are easy to draw, but it’s surprisingly difficult to convey what Soen sounds like. The guitars mimic the agile crunch of Opeth’s heyday to the letter and the bass could have been…
Boundaries - Hartford County Misery 9.6/10 Bigcartel “so begins the Reign of Pain” Boundaries is known for their heavy hitting beatdown that leaves you wanting to smash your grandmother in the face with a tire iron, but nothing quite surpr…
Emmure - Look at Yourself 5/10 iTunes Emmure is that band that everyone has a love and hate relationship with that's massively divided by the metal community similar to Attila. Last year it was announced that the band had lost every singl…