Moonlight Sorcery – Horned Lord of the Thorned Castle (Avantgarde Music)

Having thoroughly enjoyed Moonlight Sorcery’s tandem of EPs last year - Piercing Through the Frozen Eternity and Nightwind: The Conqueror from the Stars - it was only a matter of time before their first...

Nervosa – Ready for Jailbreak

Photo by: Greogory Dourtounis When it comes to deadly thrash, most know the potent sound of Nervosa. Even as the lineups have shifted over the course of the past two albums, the steady force of...

Iron Savior – Firestar (AFM Records)

What is a veteran act like Iron Savior to do when live shows are shut down in a pandemic? Well, you just get down to more studio work – releasing a second set of...

Dead and Dripping – Blackened Cerebral Rifts (Transcending Obscurity)

Dead and Dripping's latest offering, Blackened Cerebral Rifts, is a testament to tight coordination and intricate polyrhythms; also a vivisection of organic ferocity using the previously mentioned tools. The rift between these two areas...

The Hirsch Effekt – Urian (Long Branch Records)

Being one who tends to gravitate towards bands that utilize the 'everything but the kitchen sink' approach, there's always something to be said about a band who is willing to try things out of...

September 2023 Album of the Month: Night in Gales – The Black Stream

Within melodic death metal circles, those truly in the know have Night in Gales near the top of the most influential and finest of the many acts the genre has to offer. The Germans...

Conquer Divide – Burning Brightly

It’s a busy Friday evening in Manhattan. After some hit-or-miss texting on both our ends between myself and vocalist Kiarely Castillo, we finally meet up in the front of the Palladium Times Square, so...

Blame Zeus – Laudanum (Self-Released)

Previously coming to our attention through their Bandcamp analysis of their second album Theory of Perception in 2017, Portugal’s Blame Zeus released Seethe in the last quarter of 2019 on Rockshots Records. Although satisfying...

PassCode – Groundswell (Universal)

Still riding a bit high from the band's US debut shows in early September, it felt right to give PassCode's most recent EP Groundswell a chance to shine on it's own. A four song...

Tomb Mold – The Enduring Spirit (20 Buck Spin)

This review was a particularly difficult one to write, and that’s likely to be a similar response to sitting down and fully appreciating what Tomb Mold have crafted with The Enduring Spirit. Thus far,...

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