Album Reviews
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SYLOSISThe New FleshNuclear Blast Records SYLOSIS deserves a seat at the table and at this point, they’ve earned it! This isn’t a band still trying to prove they belong; it’s a band reminding the metal world that consistency, evolution, and riff writing still matter. For me, ‘The New Flesh’ isn’t just another album to review,…
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STATIC-X‘Wisconsin Death Trip’ 25th Anniversary Corrosive EditionOtsego Entertainment Group 2026 Originally released in March of 1999, ‘Wisconsin Death Trip’ was the debut album that put Los Angeles Nu-Metal act STATIC-X on the map. Within 2 years it had reached platinum status on the strength of hit singles “Push It”, which was in heavy rotation on…
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ENTHRONED‘Ashspawn’Season Of Mist Here we have another retro review for a release that came out last December and was definitely one of the best releases of 2026 with that of Belgium’s own ENTHRONED and their full-length release through SEASON OF MIST, ‘Ashspawn’. With 9 epic tracks and for nearly an hour with an album that…
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MAYHEM‘Liturgy Of Death’Century Media Records Over the past decade or so, once – and often – tumultuous Norwegian black metal icons MAYHEM have somehow become a model of stability. The 40-plus-year-old band’s current lineup of vocalist Attila Csihar, founding bassist Jørn “Necrobutcher” Stubberud, long-time drummer Jan Axel “Hellhammer” Blomberg and “new” guitarists Morten Bergeton “Teloch”…
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2026 Massacre Records The supergroup Death Dealer unleashed its fourth full-length album, (fifth release overall) the metal monster named ‘Reign of Steel,’ January 23rd through Massacre Records. The album had been awaiting release for a few years, and now the time is right for this behemoth to go out into the world and chop some…
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OV SULFUR‘Endless’Century Media Records Photo credit: Anabel DFlux Deathcore may never completely shake its reputation as metal’s knuckle-dragging lowest common denominator. But there are certainly a fair number of bands that have broken free of the flagship curb-stomp breakdown/piglet stuffed into a garbage disposal vocalizing/chock-a-block, extremity for extremity’s sake compositional traits that leave so many…
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CRYSTAL LAKEThe Weight of SoundCentury Media CRYSTAL LAKE are no strangers to the modern metalcore conversation. Formed in Tokyo, in 2002, the band has spent more than two decades carving out a reputation that balances aggression, melody, and experimentation. I’ve listened to CRYSTAL LAKE here and there over the years and caught some of their…
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TAILGUNNERMidnight BlitzNapalm Records Vampires!Conquests!And a lot of blood! Not that heavy metal had ever prided itself on being neat and orderly in the first place, but if there’s one upcoming band in the scene that’s ready to clean up well in 2026, it’ll likely be TAILGUNNER, the fiery UK quintet whose powerful and unabashedly traditionally…
