No Warning - Torture CultureRating: 8/10No Warning are one of those bands that I wish I had veen around for during their prime. While I can’t give a firsthand experience of its impact, Ill Blood remains arguably the most influential ha…
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No Warning - Torture CultureRating: 8/10No Warning are one of those bands that I wish I had veen around for during their prime. While I can’t give a firsthand experience of its impact, Ill Blood remains arguably the most influential ha…
Valence - “He Tried to Kill Me with a Forklift”Rating: CStream and purchase the song here. Valence is a four-piece instrumental progressive metal band hailing from New Rochelle, New York. Forming in 2010, the group released a debut LP enti…
Citizen - As You Please Rating: 9/10 You can stream the album in full on Youtube. I’m just gonna say it: Everybody is Going to Heaven was better than Youth. While Youth was a good record, its follow-up was a significantly darker and more m…
My Ticket Home - unReal Rating: 7.9/10 | 8/10 | 9/10 My Ticket Home have taken their fans on a ride in the four years since Strangers Only. Receiving little to no support from their label, the band put their heads down, severed ties with…
Cradle of Filth - Cryptoriana - The Seductiveness of DecayRating: 7.9/10 Cradle of Filth was always Dani Filth’s baby, if his stage name wasn’t a giveaway. He is the band’s figurehead, its ringmaster, and its center; the single constant th…
Counterparts - You’re Not You AnymoreRating: 9.5/10Stream the album in full on Youtube. I’d say that it’s about time Counterparts received some attention outside of the scene of stale “melodic hardcore” wave of bands that took considerable…
Belphegor - TotenritualRating: 7.6/10 With each record since 2006’s Pestapokalypse VI, Belphegor seem to have overstayed their welcome by another increment. They’re the sort of blackened death metal band that pours the Satan on too thick t…
Helpless - DebtRating: 8.5/10Listen and purchase on their Bandcamp In a year that’s seen them set aflame and defaced, what’s another disfigured nun on the cover of a tough-as-fuck metal record? I came across Helpless and Debt by chance in…
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Between the Buried and Me- “Colors” Rating: .../10 Stream it here. Ten years ago, Between the Buried and Me was thought to be just a metalcore band that occasionally used progressive elements you would find in groups like Opeth and Dream T…
Gigan - Undulating Waves of Rainbiotic IridescenceRating: 9/10Listen and purchase on their Bandcamp Another Gigan album, another deep-dive into Gorgutsian mindfuckery. The first couple minutes of “Wade Forward Through Matter and Backwards…