Raining Nails – Human Deeds (Rockshots Records)
A new Italian act featuring members with experience in other bands like Eternal Silence, Oracle Sun, Sound Storm, and Highlord, Raining Nails is a quartet that displays a melodic form of power/symphonic-influenced heavy metal...
Darkness Ablaze – It All Shall Burn (Darkstorm Records)
German quintet Darkness Ablaze started as a six-piece back in the early 2000’s, releasing a self-titled album in 2007 as well as the follow-up Shadowreign in 2010 on domestic label Black Bards Entertainment before...
Bacterial Husk – Anthropogenic Ruin (Self-Released)
There seems to be two major modes of thought with death metal nowadays, speaking in generalities. The penchant for making SweDeath yet again, or trying to out-tech the rest of the current crop. You...
Temperance – Awaiting Hermitage
Italian band Temperance have come a long way since there inception a decade ago. Blending together a mix of melodic heavy/power metal with progressive and symphonic elements, they now arrive at their most expansive...
Gungire – Scattered (Self-Released)
Touted on their social media as "Japan's most insanely angry band," Gungire has some tall shoes to fill in staking such a claim. Featuring vocalist Nana, who also sings for Theo Nova and has...
Lower 13 – Deception (Self-Released)
Rare is the day that a trio of musicians stay active in their original incarnation for over seventeen years – yet that’s what you’ll get here for Parma, Ohio three-piece Lower 13. Evolving from...
Suffocation – Hymns from the Apocrypha (Nuclear Blast)
There's only one Suffocation, and it's a legendary name that really needs no introduction at this point in the band's career. But one of the last founding fathers of Suffocation did exit the band...
Fires in the Distance / Dawn of Ouroboros / Somnent – October 11, 2023 – The Brass Mug, Tampa, FL
Photos by: Brittany Barkasi
There is a nearly uncountable number of bands across all spectrums these days, and even in a position of writing about heavy music for two decades, it can be hard to...