records of the week

This week, classic melodeath and a new mix of ‘heaven metal’ and shoegaze.

This week, Colin Dempsey joins with a third pick that saves this edition from being entirely not about metal.

This week, we roped in Colin Williams to add in a third record. Featured within is a heaping of death metal and grind.

This week: a moving death-doom record and a rap-rock record that stood the test of time.

We enlisted writer and copy editor Addison Herron-Wheeler to round out this RotW – this time, a pivotal metalcore work and a late(r) era Black Sabbath record.

Jon will return next week – this week, co-EIC Ted Nubel writes about an odd comeback record from one of his favorite bands.

This week: an early crossover between gothic, doom, and darkwave, and a fairly recent black metal album with an appropriate amount of cowbell.

This week: a melodic death/doom band’s 2007 debut, and a gnarly mid-career standout from a veteran stoner metal band.

This week, sad doom and fun metal. Next week: fun doom and sad metal, perhaps.

We revive our once-weekly column with some weird black metal and a weird comeback-of-sorts story.