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…
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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…
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…
Beartooth - Aggressive6.8/10Reviewed Before Release on 6/3Beartooth was one of those bands that took me by surprise with the release of their original EP, Sick, back in 2013. Caleb Shomo had dropped the emo look of his past band Attack Att…
Construct Paradise - “Suspended Animation”Rating: 7/10Bandcamp A few months ago, I was able to catch Construct Paradise at the Webster Underground in Hartford. Their set was cut down to a whopping three songs due to some technical difficul…
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…