Category: Metal

Review By Glen Parkes You listen to certain albums. There are also albums that engulf you—records that seize your throat and pull you into a world so suffocating and oppressive that you’re left gasping and only partially thankful that you’re still alive when you emerge. That second group includes the eagerly anticipated [more…]

Review By Ian Walker Few bands can claim the rollercoaster career of Belfast’s Sweet Savage. They were there at the birth of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal, crafting raw, hungry songs in the late ’70s that carried the same fire as their peers Iron Maiden, Saxon, and Def Leppard. They [more…]

Review by Glen Parkes There are bands that ride the waves of metal trends, and then there are bands that make the waves crash harder. Lorna Shore have, without question, become the latter. Their new album, I Feel The Everblack Festering Within Me, out September 12th via Century Media, is more than [more…]

Stoner / Psych Magnetic Eye Records Release Date – October 31st 2025 review by Smudge Smith Howling Giant return with their third full length album along with new member guitarist/synth player Adrian Lee Zambrano who adds a bit more power to the trio before. They say that lyrically this album explores the [more…]

Stoner/Psych Majestic Mountain Records Release Date – November 7th 2025 Review By Smudge Smith Bogwife come out of the Viking heartland of Aalborg, Denmark and have been going since 2018. They put out their first slab of stoner/psych in 2020 and this release is their third full length effort. They open with [more…]

Stoner Golden Robot Records Release Date – November 21st 2025 Review By Smudge Smith Beast Eagle are a stoner quartet out of Omaha, Nebraska. This is their second EP since their original demo was released in 2021 and it tells the tale of a witch who is more afraid of herself as [more…]

Review By Ian Walker With their sixth full-length To Rid Myself of Truth, Pittsburgh deathcore giants Signs of the Swarm have taken rage and vulnerability, stripped them down to the bone, and fused them into an unrelenting 11-track beast. Due out August 22 via Century Media, the album sees vocalist David Simonich, [more…]

Symphonic Power Metal Reigning Phoenix Music Release Date – September 5th 2025 Review By Smudge Smith My exposure to Eleine is limited. I had the chance to see them at Masters Of Rock 2024 in Czechia but I was tempted by a distillery tour which was within the grounds of the festival [more…]

By Glen Parkes, Jace Media Music Twelve years is a long time to be gone from the full-length album game—especially in the ever-evolving, often cannibalistic world of metalcore. But Attack Attack! were never the kind of band to do things by the book. With Attack Attack! II, the Ohio-bred provocateurs mark their [more…]

Review By Ian Walker If Memento mori had a soundtrack, it would sound a lot like In Devastation. Sinsaenum’s third full-length album, out August 8, 2025 via earMUSIC, roars back to life with a cathartic power never before heard. It’s a record born from grief, fury, and fierce determination — a tribute to fallen [more…]

Review By Ian Walker If BABYMETAL’s METAL GALAXY (2019) established them as the emperors of tongue-in-cheek genre-chaos, and THE OTHER ONE (2023) operated as a neon-drenched concept album exploring alternate universes, then METAL FORTH, arriving globally on 8 August 2025, is the apex: a monumental team-up of collaborators, a statement of intent, [more…]