Cryptodira - The Devil’s Despair Rating: B+ Stream/buy the record here. I first discovered Cryptodira in 2014. They were the local openers for my all-time favorite band, Between the Buried and Me, during the Long Island date of the Par…
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Cryptodira - The Devil’s Despair Rating: B+ Stream/buy the record here. I first discovered Cryptodira in 2014. They were the local openers for my all-time favorite band, Between the Buried and Me, during the Long Island date of the Par…
Ne Obliviscaris - UrnRating: 8.5/10Buy/listen on Bandcamp In the years since they took the world of progressive metal by storm with Portal of I, and with each subsequent record, Ne Obliviscaris have been hard at work refining their craft.…
name - ...You Are Mostly NowhereRating: 9.5/10Buy/listen on Bandcamp One day, name was to appear on the American Metalcore Project, our examination/celebration/reevaluation of the history of metalcore and all the fantastic, underappreciate…
Bodysnatcher - Death of Me Rating: 8/10 iTunes | MerchNow 2 years ago I heard this groovy, heavy deathcore group named Bodysnatcher. Loving both the super hard breakdowns and the disgustingly slow riffs of their first EP, Abandonment, I pu…
Hatebreed - Satisfaction is the Death of DesireRating: 10/10If you’re above the age of 15 and haven’t heard this record and claim to be a fan of heavy music, you’ve definitely been doing everything wrong but here, stream it on Youtube. The…
Amenra - Mass VIRating: 9/10Buy/listen on their Bandcamp In the house of post-metal, Amenra is a closed door. It’s not locked; you can open it and step through, but what’s in that room will not be what you expect. While the Neur-Isis sound…
Converge- “The Dusk In Us” Rating: B+ Stream/buy the record here. Converge is one of those bands that needs no introduction. Forming in 1990, they are known as pioneers of metalcore and a major inspiration for many musical acts in the unde…
Iblissian - The Crucible EPRating: 7/10Buy/listen on Bandcamp With October behind us and winter ahead, black metal season is upon us. Norway is still the genre’s mecca, but Iceland is gunning for the spot with its thriving population of bl…
God Mother - VilseleddRating: 8/10Buy/listen on Bandcamp I discovered God Mother at the tail end of 2015, after my “best of” lists had been finalized and set forever in stone on Facebook, from someone else’s “best of” list on Facebook. It…
Street Sects - “Rat Jacket” Rating: A- Stream and buy the EP here. Street Sects is an experimental music duo from Texas who, since their inception in 2013, has taken the world of industrial music by a storm with their aggressive twist on t…