October 19, 2023

With year-end lists on the horizon (somehow), it felt like a good time to get a pulse on what was good in the last few months. As we did earlier in the year for Q1, we asked our writers to give us five albums released specifically in the last quarter, or in this case July...

Musician Gabriele Gramaglia, otherwise known as G.G., has been on quite the adventure over the past decade. From The Clearing Path’s atmospheric black metal-meets-prog-meets-post-hardcore to Summit’s adventurous post-metal, Cosmic Putrefaction’s space-age putridity, and more, this young creative’s spirit speaks of progressive, odd-ball metal in volumes and celestial tomes rather than a specifically pointed career. In...

Putting the longest song at the end of the record isn’t just a time-honored tradition in stoner rock, but it’s a practice that feels especially well-suited for the doom-adjacent genre. Norwegian stoner rockers White Tundra follow in the steps of giants in this fashion on their upcoming self-titled debut, with the nearly eight-minute “Byting” capping...

Have you ever wanted to stop thinking so much? Metal nowadays has so much thought to it. Manifestos, philosophy, interviews, credos, progressions, and other things that involve brain power to fully digest. Don’t you just wish it could stop so you could take a brain-breather? On their debut EP, Chicago deathgrind quartet Degenerate Synapse are...