Reviews

Here’s a super-deep dive into Ihsahn’s latest release, a three song + two cover EP named after the black metal and prog mastermind’s hometown in Norway. What sort of black metal return-to-form does this EP turn out to be?

Sweden’s Hällas has set the bar for throwback progressive rock; we’ve got a stream of their new album “Conundrum” plus an interview with organist/synth-master Nicklas Malmquist right here, right now.

The latest release from these Norwegian rockers is slick, savory rock-‘n’-roll with a gnarly attitude and plenty of punk, prog, and metal thrown in because why the hell not? Here’s our full review.

This newly formed black metal entity (mem. Sól, Vitriol, and more) has written an atom-smashing masterpiece of an album.

Japanese instrumental rockers MONO found a creative peer in A.A. Williams on a new EP; we take a look at “Exit in Darkness,” the output of this unlikely fusion.

We deep-dive into Odious Mortem’s comeback album — it’s been more than a decade since this death metal outfit’s last release, but the wait was worth it. Very worth it.

We review the sixth full-length from UK-based black metal project Fen — how does the band stack up after nearly a decade of releases?

We dig into “Ÿ,” the latest hyper-idiosyncratic work of French avant-garde doom outfit Öxxö Xööx, to unpack its esoteric array of sounds and effects.

We dive head-first into the apocalyptic new “Death Atlas,” a Cattle Decapitation record for the record books.

Djent will always be a contentious tag, but Hypno5e goes far beyond its trappings with their latest release via The Ocean’s in-house label Pelagic Records. Here’s our full review of this beauty.