Model Zero might be a newly formed band, but their no wave self-titled depute LP suggests otherwise. This makes complete sense since the core…
In a lot of ways, Portent is kitchen sink black metal. That is, the Minnesota-based group somehow throw in just about every subgenre of…
Metawar, the third album from L.A. industrial metallers 3TEETH finds the band moving to a much bigger label, Century Media, as well as enlisting…
A Throne of Ash is the sonic equivalent of a fast-paced psychedelic nightmare in the best possible way. Fusing a venomous, hateful strain of…
Serpent of Gnosis is basically a Schrödinger’s Job For A Cowboy; whether this new group, which is three-fifths of the band who left the…
Auras’ second full-length album, Binary Garden, is a reassuring reminder that a good metal album is more than just blastbeats and tireless chugging. Coming…
East Bay-based pop punk group The Hammerbombs’ debut record practically never takes a break to catch its breath. Released on record label Paper Street…
Absolution is a gloriously weird album, and it doesn’t slide neatly into comfortable notions of what black metal should sound like. That’s very likely…
From a band name that sounds like it was borrowed from a Dr. Seuss book to giving fans the option of purchasing a stuffed…
Lyrically speaking, it’s easy to draw comparisons between Have Mercy’s Brian Swindle and Conor Oberst or Elliott Smith. Their songwriting is immaculate, their stories…
