Integrity The Blackest Curse

Published Jul 06, 2010

While the fact that this album even exists is a minor miracle ― after the disastrous attempt at touring To Die For and mass exodus of...

Anathema We're Here Because We're Here

Published Jun 28, 2010

There comes a time in certain bands' careers where they have inarguably peaked, and a brief summary of their musical trajectory isn't suffic...

Letter to the Exiles The Shadow Line

Published Jun 28, 2010

It's nice once in a while to hear an unabashedly generic metalcore record, if for no other reason than to reminisce about a time when "bree"...

Maryland Deathfest featuring Gorguts, Blood Duster, Converge, Eyehategod Sonar, Baltimore, MD May 28-30

Published Jun 03, 2010

The sweltering heat of downtown Baltimore set an appropriately suffocating atmosphere for what has become North America's premier metal fest...

Deftones Diamond Eyes

Published May 18, 2010

As a reactionary piece to 2007's bloated, overproduced Saturday Night Wrist, Diamond Eyes is an effective, yet double-edged, return to what...

The Ocean Heliocentric

Published Apr 13, 2010

The Ocean clearly have very little regard for the expectations of critics or fans, as has been proven over the course of several full-length...

Bleeding Through Bleeding Through

Published Apr 13, 2010

A highly publicized fallout with former label Trustkill somewhat dampened the momentum of 2008's rock solid Declaration, but has not deterre...

Burzum

Published Apr 06, 2010

The long awaited return of one-man black metal pioneer Varg Vikernes to guitar-based music has been rife with predictable, yet somewhat legi...

Burzum Belus

Published Mar 10, 2010

What began as a primitive assault on the tenets of modern music and culture, and climaxed with an incarceration that lasted 15 years has now...

Acacia Strain The Most Known Unknown

Published Feb 22, 2010

Boasting one of the stupider names for a live DVD in recent memory, and an almost overwhelming amount of live footage, it's questionable whe...

Xasthur 2005 Demo

Published Feb 22, 2010

While the necessity of this release could certainly be debated, Hydra Head has decided to flood the market with yet another stopgap offering...

Ihsahn After

Published Jan 25, 2010

There are times in certain musicians' careers where they transcend what is expected of them and rise to the point where they are beyond crit...

Living Sacrifice The Infinite Order

Published Jan 25, 2010

When a band are inactive for quite some time, they have a couple of options before them: ape their imitators and play it safe or rise above...

Blacklisted No One Deserves To Be Here More Than Me

Published Dec 21, 2009

Nine times out of ten, when a band jump into the studio within a year of releasing a widely acclaimed breakthrough album, the results will n...

Rise And Fall Our Circle is Vicious

Published Dec 21, 2009

While it's easy for merely solid releases to slip through the cracks in one of the most prolific years for heavy music in recent memory, Ris...

American Me Siberian Nightmare Machine

Published Dec 21, 2009

Well, somebody had to fill the void left by Bury Your Dead's untimely swan dive into full-blown nu-metal. All mockery aside, American Me's n...

Coalesce Ox EP

Published Nov 17, 2009

Leave it to Coalesce to drop one of the finest albums of 2009, then chuck the leftovers at us at the end of the year, reminding listeners an...

Black Anvil Time Insults the Mind

Published Nov 17, 2009

Bestowing a blackened aura upon a solid thrash/groove foundation, Black Anvil are not "the best metal band out of NY in ten years," as certa...

Culted Below the Thunders of the Upper Deep

Published Nov 17, 2009

Displaying remarkable fluidity for an album purportedly assembled piece by piece via email by both Canadian and Swedish members, Below the T...

Between the Buried and Me The Great Misdirect

Published Nov 17, 2009

When you've reached the point in your career that Between the Buried and Me have, you no longer need to restlessly expand on your formula &#...