Animamortua – Gods Among Us (Underground Symphony Records)
Malta is an island country in Southern Europe, located in the Mediterranean Sea. It’s also the homeland for Animamortua, a five-piece outfit that traverse a power / progressive metal style with elements of thrash...
A Dark Reborn – Last Echo (Art Gates Records)
Contemporary fusions of established metal subgenres have potentially increased the popularity of the genre exponentially. It’s led to the underground (and above) foothold artists like Jinjer, Lorna Shore, and Spiritbox continue to make on...
Reckless – Sharp Magik Steel (Dying Victims Productions)
The South American metal movement is real, as talent sprouts across multiple genres from these lands. Columbian act Reckless aims to put their name in the ring when it comes to speed metal through...
Svalbard – Lifting the Mask
Known for their socio-politically charged lyrics in their particular version of post-metal, Svalbard is taking things a bit more personally with their latest album, The Weight of the Mask. An album that looks inwards...
Entierro – The Gates of Hell (Self-Released)
Fusing together the best of stoner, doom, and traditional metal styles, Connecticut’s Entierro has established a reliable presence (and need) for their material in the studio and across the stage. Releasing three previous EP’s...
Game Over – Hellframes (Scarlet Records)
It’s been almost six years between releases for Italian thrashers Game Over – which could seem like an eternity when the quartet previously issued four full-lengths and an EP between 2012-2017. Time will tell...
Within Temptation – Bleed Out (Force Music Recordings)
One of the biggest symphonic metal bands on the planet, there's not much of a need to introduce Within Temptation. Even casual fans (as well as non-metal ones) have become quite familiar with the...
Sylosis – Look for the Signs
When it comes to steady UK modern metal that contains equal parts intricacy and musical enticement with solid hooks, melodies, and retainable songs which traverse aspects of metalcore, death metal, and thrash, look to...
Ice Giant – Altering the State of Galaxies
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Although Ice Giant has technically been a band since 2015 and put out their debut in 2017, the band has gone through some transitions, both with their members and their...
Kissin’ Black – Veleno (Metalapolis Records)
There’s something special in the waters of Switzerland when it comes to heavy rock/metal over the years. So this scribe’s ears perk up when taking in another band from this country – even if...
Arborescence of Wrath – Inferno (Transcending Obscurity)
The pandemic certainly gave a lot of artists some time on their hands, and within the quest to fill that time, a number of new projects were formed. Some of those are still on...
Solemn Vision – Despite the Rise of the Sun (Black Lion)
Always happy to check out more melodic death metal, Solemn Vision represents an act that hits closer to home for this scribe. This particular act coming from Brooklyn, NY, it's one of those cases...