Night Verses - “Into the Vanishing Light”Rating: 7.8/10Buy on iTunes or through their merch store Night Verses turned heads with their aptly-titled EP Out of the Sky and built hype on the back of their full-length Lift Your Existence, a pr…
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Night Verses - “Into the Vanishing Light”Rating: 7.8/10Buy on iTunes or through their merch store Night Verses turned heads with their aptly-titled EP Out of the Sky and built hype on the back of their full-length Lift Your Existence, a pr…
Meek is Murder - “Was”Rating: 9/10Buy on iTunes or through BandcampMeek is Murder are a band hailing from Brooklyn, NY that started off as a solo project by Mike Keller (ex-The Red Chord) in 2005. Two years after he started using this name…
Prologues - “Absence of Distance" EPRating: 8.5/10Stream and buy on Bandcamp If you’ve been to a heavy-music show in northwestern Connecticut, there’s a chance you’ve caught a band called Farewell Lodge opening for punk outfit Down With R…
Silent Planet - Everything Was Sound9.5/10Reviewed Before Release Pre-order on iTunes or MerchNOWSilent Planet was a band that I had heard very little about before the announcement of their second full length record Everything Was Sound be…
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…
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…