Any Given Day – Limitless (Arising Empire)
Despite having a strong scene over the years, the German metalcore movement never really exploded in the same way that it's American counterpart did. Bigger acts like Caliban and Heaven Shall Burn nonetheless soldiered...
Advocacy – Perseverance Through Decoherence
Progressive rock / metal may always be a niche style in terms of acceptance, but the following and exploration in terms of where musicians take these genres has never shined brighter as it has...
Cobrakill – Serpent’s Kiss (Frontiers Music)
Hokay, so!! Let’s take a trip in the way back machine, yeah? Cobrakill is back with album number two Serpent's Kiss coming via Frontiers Music. Now, let's be clear here, okay? This record sounds...
Resin Tomb – Cerebral Purgatory (Transcending Obscurity)
We like our metal filthy, and if you follow the kind of artists yours truly likes to cover, that statement shouldn’t surprise in the least. There’s just something about gritty, visceral walls of angst-ridden...
Heavy Sentence – Warriors of Madness (Dying Victims Productions)
We all start somewhere when it comes to our metal journey. For this scribe, the NWOBHM scene offered a multitude of artists firing on all cylinders for the glory of the music. So it’s...
Nextanative – Prologue: Burn it Down (Velvet Records)
Another example that not all idol-related groups have to come from Japan, Nextanative is an Indonesian act that is influenced by the Japanese alt idol sound and it's culture, but taking things slightly in...
Dissimulator – A Lower Form of Resistance
Not very often you hear bands in 2024 willing to tackle an advanced form of technical thrash while also injecting a bit of death, avant-garde angular aspect to their sound. That’s what you’ll hear...
Boundless Chaos – Sinister Upheaval (Dying Victims Productions)
Unleashing a frantic brand of death-laden thrash metal since their inception in 2017, German quintet Boundless Chaos lives for a time when fury, aggression, and no sense of modern compromise existed in their creative...
Caligula’s Horse – Charcoal Grace (InsideOut Music)
Our major exposure to Caligula’s Horse was in the build up to ProgPower USA XX in 2019. When announced during the 2018 edition - of which is customarily done so at the festival via...
Metalite – Expedition One (AFM Records)
Metalite have been masters of fusing modern metal, power metal bombast, and pop-infused fun since 2017's Heroes in Time. At this point, it's been 3 years since their last release, A Virtual World, though...