This is the debut album from US thrashers Toxic Ruin.
This is thrash metal with some progressive tendencies and even Continue reading “Toxic Ruin – Subterranean Terror (Review)”
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Bear – /// (Review)
Bear are a Belgian metal band and this is their third album.
Okay, so the album cover and band name pretty much sum up what this sounds like – you’re gonna get mauled.
This is a balanced offering of complex technical math metal and muscular, taut modern metal. It’s Continue reading “Bear – /// (Review)”
Deathinition – Online (Review)
Deathinition are a Polish thrash metal band and this is their debut album.
Here we have around 40 minutes of charismatic music. Thrash and groove metal collide to create an enjoyable album that’s worth exploring. Think classic Anthrax and Testament with some groove metal modernity added in. Continue reading “Deathinition – Online (Review)”
Behind the Sun – Post Solis (Review)
Behind the Sun are a Progressive Metal band from the US. This is their debut EP.
Behind the Sun play extreme metal that takes a progressive view of its influences, delivering half an hour or so of modern music that engages and satisfies. Continue reading “Behind the Sun – Post Solis (Review)”
Darkest Hour – Godless Prophets & the Migrant Flora (Review)
Darkest Hour are a US metal band and this is their ninth album.
Darkest Hour are one of the original and best proponents of combining hardcore, metal and thrash.
One of the first to take the Continue reading “Darkest Hour – Godless Prophets & the Migrant Flora (Review)”
Deadwound – Identity Shapes (Review)
Deadwound are a sludge/hardcore band from the UK. This is their debut EP.
Channelling a lovely line in grim filthiness, Deadwound fuse dark hardcore with sludge metal to produce 22 minutes of riotous ugliness.
The singer Continue reading “Deadwound – Identity Shapes (Review)”
Ghastly Sound – Ghastly Sound (Review)
Ghastly Sound are a metal/hardcore band from the US and this is their debut EP.
As much as I luuurrrvvvveeee the distortion of a good guitar, I do always like it when I come across a band that eschews this in favour of the primal heaviness of just drums and bass. Continue reading “Ghastly Sound – Ghastly Sound (Review)”
Palmer – Surrounding the Void (Review)
Palmer are a post-metal band from Switzerland and this is their third album.
Palmer play contemporary heavy music that takes in elements of metal, sludge, progressive metal, post-metal and post-hardcore into its embrace. These influences manifest in various ways throughout the album, but Continue reading “Palmer – Surrounding the Void (Review)”
Suicide Silence – Suicide Silence (Review)
Suicide Silence are a metal band from the US and this is their fifth album.
I haven’t heard anything Suicide Silence have done since their 2009 album No Time to Bleed, so was very interested to finally catch up with them once more. I didn’t expect them to be the same band, of course, and they really aren’t. Continue reading “Suicide Silence – Suicide Silence (Review)”
Torrefy – The Infinity Complex (Review)
Torrefy are a Canadian thrash metal band and this is their second album.
Containing over an hour of material, The Infinity Complex is an ambitious and epic release full of progressive thrash metal. The music borrows from the old-school while still retaining enough modern flavour to appeal to a wide variety of metal fans. Continue reading “Torrefy – The Infinity Complex (Review)”
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