Category: Review

Review: “V” by L.M.I.

Having spent the past decade and a half making us rethink what Hardcore Punk can twist, contort and morph into Lansdale Pennsylvania’s L.M.I. (standing for “Lazy Middle-Class Intellectuals“) created a critically acclaimed album in 2024’s “Failed To Feel It“. Back then their award winning formula found them incorporating elements of heavy Post-Hardcore, Sludge and Post-Metal with

Review: “Epoch Inhumane” by Nuclear Tomb

Blazing a trail for Progressive Death Thrash from Baltimore Maryland around the globe since 2011, Nuclear Tomb have often been called out as being a little weird. Perhaps that’s because of their wide ranging sound that has been known to include shades of noisy Punk aggression as well as Traditional Heavy Metal at its extremes

Review: “La tua foto sul marmo” by Cripple Bastards

“In being a surviving unit like Cripple Bastards for some 35+ odd years, it takes much persistence, perseverance and an undying spirit to wreck yourself, all out with Brutal-F**king-Grind. Yeah, I said it. I said Brutal, so what. Brutal. That’s the supposed overused adjective that most ‘heavy’ band bios and descriptions overlook nowadays for fear

Review: “Surplus Citizen” by Twist Lock

Frustrated with modern society, manipulation and the growing divide created by money and power, a trio of seasoned veterans known for their prior convictions in Atoll, Eyes Of Perdition, Lunacy, Necrambulent and Necrobot needed an outlet for their aggression. Crawling out of the gutters of Arizona, Nevada and Alabama they once again look to become the Kings of

Review: “Omen” by Argorok

From humble beginnings as a studio project, over the past six years Epic Death Metal outfit Argorok have been winning over audiences at both festivals and intimate club shows with their crushing riffs, cinematic atmospheres and intensely captivating live presence. In that time the Dresden Germany based quintet have offered up two albums in 2020’s

Review: “Cosmic Liar” by Ditheist

Once thought to have been a band lost to the sands of time forever, Chicago Brutal Death Metal purveyors Ditheist have returned from the void a decade after their split with Malas to once again rule with an iron fist. Original guitarist Konrad Lysak and drummer Narcyz Fortuna remain from the line up that gave us

Review: “Cranial Devastation” by Dead Void

Having smashed our skulls with their 2022 debut album “Volatile Forms“, Copenhagen Denmark Doom inspired Death Metal duo Dead Void have returned for another collection of tunes for which listener discretion is advised. Distilled down to its very essence “Volatile Forms” is record steeped in cavernous atmosphere which creates psychological unease, building a sense of

Review: “A Splinter in the Infinite Noumenon” by Apostle

Produced, engineered and mixed by Connor Ray (Clot, Malevich, Soros) at Sobek Sound and mastered by Erol Ulug (Bleeding Through, Mortal Wound, All Out War) at Bright Lights,  “A Splinter in the Infinite Noumenon” by Apostle serves as both a meditation on the human condition and a deeply personal tribute shaped by grief and remembrance. Reflecting on

Review: “Stillness and Suffering” by Tongues of Mercury

Just six months after they announced themselves to an unsuspecting world with debut EP “A Sense of Injury” in July 2025, multi instrumentalist Shaun Mitchell (Dead Man Risen, Soul’s Darkness, Dreams of Nightmares) and vocalist Jaime Ribeiro (Semyazah, Priest Killer, Abattoir of Shrikes) return with a follow up titled “Stillness and Suffering“. Inspired by various