Reviews
May 2026
7.2
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Hardcore, Crossover thrash metal
Official review
by
omne metallum
26.05
Dare I be cliché?…
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7.2 |
26.05
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8.5
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Atmospheric black metal
Official review
by
AndyMetalFreak
25.05
Atmospheric black metal is usually associated with majestic wintry wilderness landscapes, but the concept of Det Hjemsøkte Hjertet goes much deeper than that.
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8.5 |
25.05
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N/A
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Post hardcore, Metalcore
Official review
by
RaduP
13.05
The metalcore comeback to end all metalcore comebacks.
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N/A |
13.05
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February 2026
N/A
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Blackened doom metal
Official review
by
RaduP
26.02
Can I get away with calling it "Giallo metal"?
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N/A |
26.02
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7.9
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Atmospheric black metal
Official review
by
ScreamingSteelUS
22.02
Much like the Xasthur song from which they take their name, Prison Of Mirrors sound like black metal observed from a long way off: you have to scythe through layers of fumacious fuzz before you reach the…
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7.9 |
22.02
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December 2025
8.3
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Hard rock, Heavy metal, Progressive rock
Official review
by
AndyMetalFreak
27.12
The Phantom Spell casts another magical spell that merges the '70s with the modern day, so get ready to embark on another spellbinding adventure in progressive hard rock through Heather & Hearth.
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8.3 |
27.12
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7.6
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Crust punk, Death metal
Official review
by
AndyMetalFreak
21.12
It's titled Time And Tide on the account that you'll be given no time to breathe in the sea of crust punk madness, for which you'll simply drown as the tide drags you further in.
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7.6 |
21.12
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N/A
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Mathcore
Official review
by
RaduP
08.12
Mathcore is admittedly a quite tough genre to get into. Seems like Pupil Slicer are specifically toning down that side of their sound to make Fleshwork their most direct album to date.
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N/A |
08.12
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N/A
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Noise, Blackened sludge metal
Official review
by
RaduP
04.12
It's back to the long albums for Primitive Man.
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N/A |
04.12
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October 2025
N/A
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Post-metal
Official review
by
musclassia
22.10
Post-metal is a genre defined by contrast between heaviness and levity, melody and visceral intensity. It feels optimally poised to serve as the vehicle for composition shaped by simultaneous joy and grief,…
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N/A |
22.10
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September 2025
8.4
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Death doom metal, Gothic metal
Official review
by
omne metallum
30.09
Ascension is a bleak yet beautiful reflection on existence.
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8.4 |
30.09
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8.8
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Glam metal
Guest review
by
Sebastian1982
30.09
"Like a beautiful experience when you least expect it"
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8.8 |
30.09
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7.8
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Thrash metal
Official review
by
omne metallum
20.09
A true paradox indeed.
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7.8 |
20.09
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N/A
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Deathcore
Official review
by
RaduP
08.09
Psycho-Frame ensure that a distillation of deathcore would sound as heavy as humanly possible.
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N/A |
08.09
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July 2025
5.0
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Djent, Progressive math metal
Guest review
by
TonsureOvDoom
27.07
When I started listening the debut of Periphery, I was soon dissociating from the experience, like my brain wanted to lock itself outside of the musical experience. I simply was not present anymore. How…
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5.0 |
27.07
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June 2025
7.2
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Avantgarde metal, Grindcore
Official review
by
ScreamingSteelUS
30.06
Psudoku is an impressive mess, the type of band you could wedge into a frame and sell for millions if you could just forge Wassily Kandinsky's signature. Its sound is stunning, both in the prosaic…
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7.2 |
30.06
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N/A
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Black metal, Death metal
Official review
by
musclassia
26.06
With a band name derived from the writings of the early Church fathers and subsequent establishment of the Christian canon, as well as an album name that refers to Christian religious education, one might…
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N/A |
26.06
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N/A
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Shoegaze, Post-metal
Official review
by
RaduP
03.06
The ache of passing time is one that's looming in a quieter subtler way, at least according to Planning For Burial.
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N/A |
03.06
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May 2025
N/A
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Ambient, Post-rock, Experimental rock
Official review
by
RaduP
13.05
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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N/A |
13.05
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April 2025
8.1
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Doom metal
Official review
by
AndyMetalFreak
28.04
It seems that Pagan Altar are Never Quite Dead, despite all the setbacks, and they might even be getting stronger too.
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8.1 |
28.04
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March 2025
7.7
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Progressive sludge metal
Official review
by
musclassia
22.03
Typically, when a band goes a decade after their debut album without releasing anything further, it’s safe to assume that they fall under the ‘one-album wonder’ category. However, although a Year Of Sleep…
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7.7 |
22.03
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8.1
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Death metal
Official review
by
X-Ray Rod
19.03
Old-school, dissonant, technical... There are many ways to play death metal, and Phrenelith chose many of them.
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8.1 |
19.03
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N/A
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Death metal
Official review
by
X-Ray Rod
02.03
Death metal of the filthiest kind. It’s fucking Pissgrave! What else did you expect?
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N/A |
02.03
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February 2025
8.6
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Post-metal
Official review
by
musclassia
19.02
Just as all roads lead to Rome, all good post-metal debuts seem to lead to a contract with Pelagic Records; Pothamus have inevitably joined their compatriots Psychonaut and Hippotraktor on the label’s…
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8.6 |
19.02
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7.0
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Doom metal
Official review
by
omne metallum
08.02
Will a cracked and chipped bottle suffice?…
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7.0 |
08.02
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January 2025
8.1
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Black metal
Official review
by
ScreamingSteelUS
23.01
The courts finally had their say: the name “Batushka” belongs to Krzysztof Drabikowski. But a sound once explored is opened to the world, and Bartłomiej Krysiuk cannot hand over his voice: Patriarkh continues…
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8.1 |
23.01
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N/A
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Melodic black metal
Official review
by
RaduP
21.01
Prognan's background in Hollywood soundtrack composing have been brought up the previous time they were covered here, but with Sve Će To Narod Pozlatiti, the runtimes have also reached Hollywoodian…
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N/A |
21.01
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8.5
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Ambient black metal
Official review
by
AndyMetalFreak
05.01
Here's your perfect cold winter playlist; now you just need a majestic snow-capped Alpine peak to climb, and all shall be complete.
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8.5 |
05.01
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December 2024
6.9
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Post black metal
Official review
by
AndyMetalFreak
14.12
Which Pathway will the Heresiarchs of Russian post-black metal take this time?
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6.9 |
14.12
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November 2024
N/A
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Electropop, Alternative metal
Official review
by
RaduP
27.11
Remember when Poppy playing metal was a novelty?
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N/A |
27.11
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8.7
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Black metal, Post-metal
Official review
by
musclassia
27.11
This album contains the final sounds of a doomed world, at the terminus of all paradises lost. At Shadow Zion.
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8.7 |
27.11
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N/A
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Death Industrial, Noise, Power Electronics
Official review
by
RaduP
05.11
Pharmakon returning after a five year hiatus with a concept album is really cool, but didn't she sense that by naming her previous albums Abandon, Bestial Burden, Contact, and Devour, she created…
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N/A |
05.11
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October 2024
7.8
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Stoner metal
Official review
by
AndyMetalFreak
17.10
The Afterlife on Planet Of Zeus can be really quite satisfying.
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7.8 |
17.10
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N/A
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Hard rock, Heavy metal, Progressive rock
Guest review
by
Blackcrowe
15.10
Phantom Spell is the solo project of Kyle McNeill, best known for his work with Seven Sisters. Immortal's Requiem takes listeners back to the 70s progressive rock sound, but with a modern metal touch.
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N/A |
15.10
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N/A
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Fusion, Post hardcore, Progressive metal, Experimental sludge metal
Guest review
by
Blackcrowe
04.10
A Dis-Harmonic PHILMography.
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N/A |
04.10
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September 2024
5.0
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Thrash metal
Official review
by
omne metallum
23.09
Aptly titled.
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5.0 |
23.09
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8.3
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Avantgarde metal, Black metal, Death metal, Industrial metal
Official review
by
musclassia
18.09
When a band’s debut album comes with a 448-page artbook that provides illustrative accompaniment to its extensive lyrics (which include lines such as “icosadodecahedronal architecture, cubicuboctahedronal…
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8.3 |
18.09
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N/A
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Technical death metal
Official review
by
RaduP
16.09
Pyrrhon's brand of technical dissonant death metal always had at least a bit of mathcore in it. With Exhaust they steer closer than ever towards it.
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N/A |
16.09
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N/A
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Avantgarde metal, Progressive rock, Sludge metal
Official review
by
RaduP
12.09
When I covered Papangu's debut three years ago, they impressed me for their blend of sludge metal and very niche prog rock. Well, now the metal aspect has been pushed back for Lampião Rei.
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N/A |
12.09
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7.8
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Alternative rock, Progressive rock
Official review
by
musclassia
05.09
Before their decade-long hiatus, Pure Reason Revolution were a fairly prolific band; post-hiatus, they have maintained a similar rate of productivity with their output, even while undergoing significant…
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7.8 |
05.09
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July 2024
8.2
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Progressive death metal
Official review
by
musclassia
26.07
By this point in time, saying that a new progressive death metal band sounds like Opeth has arguably become such a habitual comparison that reviewers have to take conscious effort to avoid doing so reflexively.
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8.2 |
26.07
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7.4
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Progressive metal
Guest review
by
Ch'ti
01.07
With this bass intro, I knew in advance that the album couldn't be bad.
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7.4 |
01.07
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June 2024
7.0
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Heavy metal
Official review
by
AndyMetalFreak
30.06
What we have here is a Portrait of The Host, but will the host provide some quality NWOTHM for its honourable metalhead guests?
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7.0 |
30.06
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8.4
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Death metal, Thrash metal
Official review
by
X-Ray Rod
04.06
Pentagram Chile returns a decade after the release of their debut album. Despite the busy schedule of their founder, these South American pioneers stayed focused and released another powerful and rifftastic…
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8.4 |
04.06
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May 2024
N/A
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Doom metal
Official review
by
RaduP
30.05
It's not a big surprise that out of all the metal genres, it is the slow, somber, and mournful one that has the biggest penchant for emotion. Here's Pallbearer going heavy on the emotion and…
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N/A |
30.05
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6.0
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Alternative metal, Nu metal, Alternative rock
Official review
by
omne metallum
14.05
So, when are we getting paid?
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6.0 |
14.05
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March 2024
7.8
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Melodic metalcore
Guest review
by
Ch'ti
21.03
The Australian band delivers their best performance through furious breakdowns and enraged vocals.
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7.8 |
21.03
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February 2024
8.6
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Melodic death metal, Progressive metal
Official review
by
musclassia
01.02
Lingua Ignota is no more, but the exploration of unknown language endures; Persefone announce the arrival of their new vocalist in style with a typically excellent EP.
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8.6 |
01.02
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January 2024
8.0
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Melodic black metal
Official review
by
Netzach
28.01
Prognan seem to be on a very productive streak as there’s already another hour of music available of captivating, cinematic black metal. Welcome back to Balkan, twenty years after the first world war.
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8.0 |
28.01
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December 2023
N/A
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Atmospheric black metal
Official review
by
RaduP
11.12
Atmospheric black metal does hit differently when it gets this cold outside and you write reviews with your Christmas sweater on.
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N/A |
11.12
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November 2023
N/A
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Avantgarde black metal, Doom metal
Official review
by
F3ynman
27.11
The Mayan calendar got it wrong. Weltende, the end of the world, arrived in 2023, not 2012.
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N/A |
27.11
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October 2023
7.6
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Black metal
Official review
by
X-Ray Rod
15.10
Few black metal bands put as much emphasis on sheer disgusting blasphemy as Profanatica does. And while their image might look campy and excessive, they have always been serious about it. Even more so…
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7.6 |
15.10
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6.2
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Doom metal, Sludge metal, Stoner metal
Official review
by
musclassia
10.10
When it comes to stoner rock and stoner metal, female vocalists aren’t uncommon; for stoner doom specifically, though, the representation is lower. Bands such as Windhand have demonstrated that slow, gnarly…
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6.2 |
10.10
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7.4
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Groove thrash metal
Official review
by
omne metallum
04.10
The 51st state.
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7.4 |
04.10
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September 2023
7.0
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Black metal, Celtic folk metal
Official review
by
Netzach
29.09
They say you should quit while you are still at the top. For instance, quitting your job for another is usually the best way to get a raised salary. Well, if this is How It Ends, then Primordial is clearly…
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7.0 |
29.09
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7.4
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Extreme progressive metal
Official review
by
musclassia
23.09
As much as there’s pleasure in coming upon a great album from a previously unfamiliar band, there’s also fun in reacquainting oneself with a band that’s been off one’s radar for a long period of time,…
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7.4 |
23.09
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N/A
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Death metal
Official review
by
F3ynman
19.09
Remember when dinosaurs ruled ancient Egypt? Yeah, me neither. But that's not stopping newcomers Primal Tyrant from inventing some fun, dino death metal!…
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N/A |
19.09
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4.0
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Hard rock
Official review
by
omne metallum
14.09
Ringo did it better.
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4.0 |
14.09
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7.2
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Melodic metalcore
Official review
by
omne metallum
09.09
Not so polarising.
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7.2 |
09.09
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7.3
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Instrumental, Progressive metal
Official review
by
AndyMetalFreak
08.09
Earlier this year, many of us were dazzled by the weirdly wonderful instrumental metal debut Wet Ass Plutonium from Nuclear Power Trio. Well, if you thought that was a strange instrumental concept, then…
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7.3 |
08.09
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N/A
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Hard rock
Official review
by
RaduP
06.09
They're Phil Campbell And The Bastard Sons and they play rock 'n' roll.
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N/A |
06.09
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July 2023
7.3
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Brutal death metal, Technical death metal
Official review
by
musclassia
19.07
I’ve listened to enough metal by now to know which albums in weekly release round-ups I can safely assume I will not find myself delving deeply into. Of these, albums tagged as ‘brutal death’ with gory…
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7.3 |
19.07
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N/A
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Drone doom metal
Official review
by
RaduP
05.07
What lies at the limit of cosmic horror? More drone?
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N/A |
05.07
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7.5
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US power metal, Thrash metal
Official review
by
ScreamingSteelUS
02.07
It isn’t too often that you see proper US power metal these days; you know, the real asphalt-ripping stuff that’s as muscular as East Coast thrash and as dark as death. Well, dark as Control Denied, anyway.
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7.5 |
02.07
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June 2023
N/A
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Mathcore
Official review
by
RaduP
18.06
There's a mold one creates when being categorized as one subgenre. Pupil Slicer's debut Mirrors was quite unquestionably a mathcore album. So is Blossom for the most part, but it's one less…
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N/A |
18.06
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8.0
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Doom metal, Post-metal, Blackened sludge metal
Official review
by
X-Ray Rod
11.06
Most people think of atmospheric sludge as a term used to describe a calmer type of sludge metal. But what happens when that atmosphere consists of a ton of vitriol pouring down on you?
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8.0 |
11.06
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8.4
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Technical death metal
Official review
by
musclassia
06.06
Canada, and Québec in particular, has quite the reputation in technical death metal; the scene even has its own Wikipedia category. Pronostic is a name that’s existed for a while, but due to relative inactivity…
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8.4 |
06.06
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N/A
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Progressive death metal
Official review
by
RaduP
06.06
Comeback albums generally get a lot of attention because listeners are so starved for new material from a band, that the mere concept of a new album from said band can feel surreal. The real challenge…
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N/A |
06.06
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May 2023
9.5
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Black metal
Official review
by
Netzach
11.05
Listen, I don't give a perfect score easily, but Martyrs is damn sure a worthy contender. This is black metal reimagined, repurposed and redesigned. Now, what is it that you love about black metal?
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9.5 |
11.05
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April 2023
N/A
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Screamo, Post hardcore, Sludge metal
Official review
by
RaduP
29.04
This is like the trope of having a devil and an angel on each shoulder trying to convince you. Except both the blackened screamo and the chamber strings are devils in this case.
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N/A |
29.04
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