Benthos - From Nothing
Review by musclassia

 

I spent a reasonable chunk of a review earlier this year discussing how mathcore and djent, as adjacent as they are musically, often tend to stick apart from one another. 2025 seems to be seeing a change in this practice; not only did said reviewed album from Vertex buck the trend, but I’ve now encountered two further records released a week apart from one another in April to which the same applies to varying degrees.

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Pyramids - Pythagoras
Review by RaduP

 

Do you bank that your comeback album will get attention merely on the fact that you're a seminal band in a specific genre or do you try to be as shocking as possible?

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Your Spirit Dies - My Gnawing Pains Will Never Rest
Review by Thryce

 

Habemus Papam Metalcorum!

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Abyssal Vacuum - Abyssal Vacuum
Review by RaduP

 

What other dissonant black metal album ever sent you on a Google Maps treasure hunt?

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Snooze - I Know How You Will Die
Review by musclassia

 

It’s interesting to passingly ponder how math rock in the modern era is so commonly associated with upbeat melodicism (think Covet, Chon, Tricot and their ilk), yet mathcore and math metal are respectively synonymous with the belligerence of The Dillinger Escape Plan and the devastating intensity of Meshuggah. With descriptions as ‘a heavy, happy math rock band’ and ‘Meshuggah in major’, Snooze aim to bridge this divide.

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Inhuman Nature - Greater Than Death
Review by omne metallum

6.8

Greater Than Death? I'd still take Scream Bloody Gore over this.

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Rye - Знание
Review by AndyMetalFreak

7.2

Emotionally atmospheric one-man metal projects that you can't quite put a finger on what genre they belong to seem to be all the range lately, and Rye fit into this category.

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Structure - Heritage
Review by AndyMetalFreak

8.2

Every emotion your Heritage holds is in the very Structure of death doom itself.

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