Grand Cadaver – Crawling in Decay
Photo: Richard Bloom
What do you have when you take five Swedish musicians that possess decades of experience, including work in acts like Dark Tranquillity, Katatonia, and Tiamat among others and create a fresh act...
Rană – Richtfeuer (Breath:Sun:Bone:Blood)
The thought of combining crust and post metal with black metal isn’t exactly brand new territory, with several successful iterations popping up throughout the years. Downfall of Gaia immediately comes to mind as one...
Knife – Heaven Into Dust (Napalm Records)
Slicing through the German scene, you can’t get a more ‘metal’ moniker than Knife. Together in this incarnation since 2019, the quartet have plenty of seasoning together (and apart) in other acts – thus...
Hanabie. – Raise wa Ijin! (Sony Music)
The Japanese metal and hard rock scene lovingly takes a lot of freedoms and experimentation that tend to leave many metal fans in the West stunned and flabbergasted by, and Hanabie is no execption...
Marc Hudson – Starbound for Glory
Photo: Oliver Lloyd
Already established in a premiere metal outfit like Dragonforce, vocalist Marc Hudson felt ready to helm his own solo record journey with his debut album Starbound Stories. Combining a love of anime,...
The Anix – Nightvision (FiXT Music)
The intertwining of heavy and electronic music has been going on for a very long time, resulting in droves of interesting and high quality music. From industrial metal legends like Godflesh and Ministry, to...
Silent Skies – Dormant (Napalm)
Few bands operate in such a space where they simultaneously write some of the most beautiful sounding music, yet provide such an utterly powerful gutpunch. But such is the realm of Silent Skies, the...
Stitched Up Heart – To the Wolves (Century Media)
A band seemingly never afraid to spread their wings and incorporate new elements into their music, it's always exciting to see where Stitched Up Heart will take their vision next. With the one constant...
Exmortus – Dance with the Dead
Long-time followers of Dead Rhetoric are aware of our affinity for this California band Exmortus. Intertwining sophisticated riffs and shredding leads in a neoclassical meets thrash/death context, they’ve been road warriors in bringing their...
Warmen – Here for None (Reaper Entertainment)
Although it’s been nine years between studio records, it’s not as if most of the members of Warmen have been idle in the time away – most notably keyboardist Janne Warman was an active...
Dethklok – Dethalbum IV (WaterTower Music)
Undoubtedly a force that provided a number of people with their first metal experience in the mid 2000s to early 2010s, Metalocalypse ran on Cartoon Network and detailed the exploits of the world's biggest...
The Unity – Join the Hellish Joyride
Photo: Michael Stammwitz
German power metal band The Unity have probably delivered their most versatile and satisfying studio album to date for their latest record The Hellish Joyride. People who appreciate strong vocal melodies, killer...
Sargassus – King of the Sun (Inverse Records)
Starting in 2012, Finnish act Sargassus operates on the cutting edge of numerous subgenres for this third EP King of the Sun. The four-piece possesses a sound that can be abrasive as well as...
Oblivion Protocol – The Fall of the Shires (Atomic Fire Records)
Best known for his keyboard work in UK progressive metal outfit Threshold, Richard West felt the story that started on Legends of the Shires from 2017 deserved a sequel. When his bandmates wanted to...
Warmen – Accidental Aggression
Photo: Marek Sabogal
Containing members with ties to Children of Bodom, Ensiferum, and Kotipelto, Warmen arrives back on the scene after a prolonged absence from the studio. Which is understandable – keyboardist Janne Warmen’s main...