Stick To Your Guns – Spectre Pure Noise Records 9,5/10,0 Brief:Stick to Your Guns is an American hardcore punk band from Orange County, California. Members of the band include Jesse Barnett (vocals), Andrew…
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Abaddon Incarnate – The Wretched Sermon
Abaddon Incarnate – The Wretched Sermon Transcending Obscurity Records 7,5/10,0 Brief:Having been active since the ’90s, Irish grindcore/death metal legends have only perfected their sound over the years, creating a quintessential blend of…
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Paganizer – Beyond The Macabre
Paganizer – Beyond The Macabre Transcending Obscurity Records 8,0/10,0 Brief:Swedish death metal giants Paganizer have taken their time to come up with their most mature album till date. They’ve honed their sound, become…
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Memphis May Fire – Remade In Misery
Memphis May Fire – Remade In MiseryRise Records8,5/10,0 Brief: Memphis May Fire makes anthems for the broken. The four-piece rock band channel a generation’s worth of angst, frustration, and pain, with a focused…
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Future Palace – Run
Future Palace – RunArising Empire8,5/10,0 Brief: The Berlin post-hardcore trio Future Palace are back with full force. Their first single Paradise manifests a profound musical development with a much more massive sound –…
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Cabin Boy Jumped Ship – Sentiments
Cabin Boy Jumped Ship – SentimentsAFM Records8,0/10,0 Brief:Cabin Boy Jumped Ship hail from the heart of England and are one of the hottest newcomers of the last years. They fortify their special position…
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Hollow Front – The Price of Dreaming
Hollow Front – The Price of DreamingUNFD Records8,0/10,0 Brief: Hollow Front is a progressive metalcore/post-hardcore band from Grand Rapids in Michigan. “‘The Price of Dreaming’ is about the sacrifices made in order to…
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Sickseed – Goregeous
Sickseed – GoregeousSelf-released8,0/10,0 Brief: Sickseed is a 5 piece metal band from Denmark. The band has experimented with different genres since the early 2000’s until present day. The new style is a blend…
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The Vision Ablaze – Embers
The Vision Ablaze – EmbersPrime Collective7,5/10,0 Brief: Copenhagen-based melodic metal trio THE VISION ABLAZE, are back and ready with their sophomore album ‘Embers’. Since the addition of vocalist Tim Nederveen in 2017, the…
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Hanging The Nihilist – Prophetic Blasphemy
Hanging The Nihilist – Prophetic Blasphemy Prime Collective 8,5/10,0 Brief:Danish deathcore band HANGING THE NIHILIST are back and ready to present their debut full-length ‘Prophetic Blasphemy’ – an album filled with breakdowns and…
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Yatra – Born Into Chaos
Yatra – Born Into Chaos Prosthetic Records 7,5/10,0 Brief: Maryland-based death metallers YATRA resume their savage assault on new album, Born into Chaos. The band’s fourth—their first for Prosthetic Records—album sees the power…
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Famyne – II: The Ground Below
Famyne – II: The Ground BelowSvart Records8,5/10,0 Brief: Garden-fresh trail-blazers from the UK, Famyne drag Doom kicking and screaming into the 21st century on epic new album “The Ground Below”. Hailing from the…
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OU – One
OU – OneInside Out Music8,0/10,0 Brief: Coming out of Beijing, China, progressive metal quartet OU (pronunciation: “O”) look to emerge onto the music scene with a debut studio album that although can bring…
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Natjager – At Kende Bølge Fra Hav
Natjager – At Kende Bølge Fra HavLast Mile Records9,5/10,0 Brief: Danish melodic post-hardcore band NATJAGER is ready to unleash their second fulllength album “At kende bølge fra hav” roughly translated to “To know…
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Pure Reason Revolution – Above Cirrus
Pure Reason Revolution – Above CirrusInsideOut Music8,5/10,0 Brief:Emerging from one unknown and diving headfirst into another, Pure Reason Revolution return with the successor to their landmark comeback record, ‘Eupnea’. On ‘Above Cirrus’, the…
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Caliban – Dystopia
Caliban – DystopiaCentury Media Records8,5/10,0 Brief: German metalcore juggernaut CALIBAN are back with their unprecedented thirteenth full-length studio album in a career that’s only approaching the quarter-century mark. The new record, “Dystopia”, is…
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Introtyl – Adfectus
Introtyl – Adfectus Emanzipation Productions 8,5/10,0 Brief: INTROTYL hailing from Mexico City, Mexico were formed in 2009. They play Death Metal in the best American tradition and so far they released four EPs…
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Nite – Voices of the Kronian Moon
Nite – Voices of the Kronian MoonSeason of Mist Records8,5/10,0 Brief: The San Francisco Bay Area has a history steeped in forward-thinking, technically dazzling metal, and NITE carries that torch with pride. Founded…
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Semblant – Vermilion Eclipse
Semblant – Vermilion EclipseFrontiers Music8,0/10,0 Brief: Semblant formed in 2006 in Curitiba, Brazil when singer Sergio Mazul and keyboardist J. Augusto joined forces to create music that featured all the dark and aggressive…
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Sakis Tolis – Among the Fires of Hell
Sakis Tolis – Among the Fires of Hell Independent 9,0/10,0 Brief:This is the first solo album from the frontman of the Greek metal band ROTTING CHRIST, Sakis Tolis! He previously revealed: “My upcoming…
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Major Parkinson – A Night at the Library
Major Parkinson – A Night at the LibraryApollon Records10,0/10,0 Brief:In the early days of Covid lockdown, Major Parkinson did a scaled down streaming concert from the music room at Bergen Public Library. Stripped…
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Kuolemanlaakso – Kuusumu
Kuolemanlaakso – KuusumuSvart Records8,0/10,0 Brief: The Finnish death doom spearhead Kuolemanlaakso, starring vocalist Mikko Kotamäki (Swallow the Sun), are about to release their first album in eight years. On Kuusumu, Kuolemanlaakso stretch their…
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Diablo – When All the Rivers Are Silent
Diablo – When All the Rivers Are SilentSakara Records9,0/10,0 Brief:One of the biggest names in the Finnish metal scene, the masters of outlaw metal DIABLO, was born by the banks of the river…
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Ignite – Ignite
Ignite – IgniteCentury Media Records8,5/10,0 Brief:In 2019, Orange County, California Punk and Hardcore institution, IGNITE were a band at a crossroads. Over 25 years, IGNITE had taken their hardcore foundations and not merely…
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