blood incantation

NYC metal lifer Rick Habeeb has stories to tell. Read about the ten albums that influenced his band’s new Dan Swano-mastered album (which features members of Artificial Brain, Revocation, and Buckshot Facelift), hear a new track, and check them out at one of their three upcoming shows.

We crunched the numbers across our individual year-end lists and arrived at #1; then we said “fuck it” and “all these albums rule,” so here those are in one handy spot.

Chris Butler lists out his top picks for the year, including Herod, Tool, Wormwitch, and more.

Rhys presents his death-and-war-metal-forward picks of the year.

Associate Editor Jon Rosenthal’s unexpected picks for the year at large.

The “I’m Listening to Death Metal” mastermind likes more than just death metal… but still loves death metal.

An Invisible Oranges newcomer reflects on his return to writing in his first year-end list.

Here’s a hand-picking of five albums from last month which truly wowed us; the year is coming to a close soon, and November releases showed us that 2019’s got serious guts.

The shortest possible critical statement: “More Blood Incantation! AOTY 5/5.” This, however, clearly won’t suffice, so here’s a more comprehensive set of thoughts. The new album releases tomorrow.

All the new metal releasing between November 17th and November 23rd, 2019 — spin (or skip) new music from Blood Incantation, Street Sects, Obsequiae, Lord Mantis, and more.