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"What Katatonia has done again on Sky Void of Stars is build an emotional connection and resonance in their songs."
Catharsis comes in many forms, and with that, the release and expression of emotions. This is what fuels and conceives most art, and within...
A winsome collection of lilting prog and impassioned melodies, The Fall of Hearts takes us even further afield from the metal scene than usual...
Katatonia have been in a reflective mood of late. After retooling their 2012 album Dead End Kings on last year's Dethroned and Uncrowned, the...
Masters of everything somber, Katatonia released Dead End Kings in 2012 to solid reception. The album was much more orchestral than previous works and...
"While more variety and adventurousness would surely improve The Cancer Pledge, it's already pretty damn good."
Steffen Kummerer fronts two successful and respected German extreme metal bands. Both Obscura and Thulcandra were started in the early 2000s. Obscura plays progressive/technical...
"These are songs to cherish and treasure, and are some of Ihsahn's very best endeavors in a masterfully storied body of work."
Every society has institutions dedicated to keeping certain cultural traditions alive. American state capitals often have buildings earmarked for operas or symphony orchestras. Most...
"Allegaeon's metamorphosis from mechanical tech-deathheads to progressive wayfarers has been as smooth as it was unpredictable."
"There's no doubt that Mass Worship have the connections and the talent to put out great heavy music."
"The new Swedish death metal band Grand Cadaver brings together veterans of the scene for their old school debut Into the Maw of Death."
"This album’s balance of technical brutality, haunting ritualism and inexplicable catchiness can’t be replicated.."
Swedish prog metallers Soen released their fifth album Imperial this month. Keeping up a stream of steady releases (Lotus in 2019 and Lykaia in...
Doomy death metal has a history and pedigree that spans from the rich and vibrant on one end to the so-boring-it-might-as-well-be-clinically-dead on the other....
The second half of The Ocean's Phanerozoic dualogy uses kaleidoscopic heaviness to relate the human condition to a 541-million-year cosmic tragedy.
Several years ago, I discovered Binary Code through the release of their Moonsblood album. After reviewing and serving up high praise for that record,...
Hard to believe its been 15 years since August Burns Red released Thrill Seeker. Once the young frontrunners of metalcore, they’ve matured into one...
Anyone with an ear to the European heavy underground knows the name Lowrider. The hype language for the Swedish quartet’s years-in-the-making sophomore album Refractions...
For listeners looking for raw, melodic and imaginative black metal, Obsequiae's new album nothing short of a sublime sonic experience.
From start to finish, True North triumphs as a resonant and characteristic realization of how well folk, black, and progressive metal trademarks can unite...
The ways in which the soft and heavy personas of Phanerozoic I: Palaeozoic combine mark The Ocean Collective as masters of creative duality.
Never has a form of music united (and divided) people such as black metal. Never has a form of music tapped into the deepest,...
