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Meshuggah returns to form on Immutable, sprouting forth an album of monolithic proportions inflated with their signature aural dish of eternally contorting and tortuous demolition. Release date: April 1, 2022 | Atomic Fire Records | Official Site | Facebook I have tremendous issues with people, both in general and when it comes to the ‘everyone’s a critic‘ notion. Critique itself is very much welcome when it’s conveyed in a constructive fashion, whereas a mere barrage of overly negative complaints without further elaboration is usually veiled as such, even though the two are drastically ..read more

I don’t these too often, so when I do I try to make them count. Setting me up with a whole-ass album of melodeath – a genre I love, but don’t explore too often recently – was a great way to spend my first premiere of 2022. We don’t mess around with these, so let’s blow the dust off and talk about Burned In Effigy, a scrappy quintet from Chicago, IL. This has been a long time coming, but the band’s debut record is more than just that – it’s also a marked change from their EP days in 2017 and prior when their music was instrumental. Same neo-classical, melodic death metal feel; no vocals. Ent ..read more

Herod and their righteous fury return, doling out eight tracks of the very finest that ’20’s metal has to offer. Iconoclast is here and I cannot get enough. Release date: May 5, 2023 | Pelagic Records | Bandcamp | Website | Facebook There are some albums that you are never quite ready to review, despite having them for multiple months. That being said, I’m also so fucking excited for the world to hear this chaotic masterpiece of modern metal in full. The epitome of heavy, the grooviest destruction you will bear witness to in 2023, Iconoclast is Herod‘s reckoning for the modern ..read more

It’s difficult to describe TELOS‘ Delude without banging into words like heavy, brutal, and nasty. So, taking the easy way out, this album is as heavy, brutal, and nasty as blackened hardcore gets. Release date: March 18, 2023 | Vinyltroll Records | Bandcamp | Instagram Merriam Webster has long upheld that Delude is what one does in order to mislead the mind, deceive, or trick somebody. Now look it up in the dictionary of TELOS to discover that volatile energy and sick nasty riffs are part of the definition too. This Copenhagen-based quintet is making some of the meanest noise out there ..read more

We haven’t had a new feature in quite a while, so it’s my uttermost pleasure to introduce to you NOISE UPON A TIME, hitting your screen once every month. And let me tell, this one is a delight! The daily life of music journalism is often marked by catching up with the constant stream of new releases. You wanna find those albums worth recommending to your audience – so keeping on track with new stuff is mandatory. That’s one of the reasons we’ve decided to create A SCENE IN RETROSPECT, and it’s also one of the reasons for our new feature, NOISE UPON A TIME. We gonna party like it’s…wel ..read more

The Polish grind’n’groove unit Antigama finally returns with their new album Whiteout. Did that sentence fill you up to the brim with glee and excitement? If it did, good. If not, shame on you, nerd. Release date: July 15, 2022 | Selfmadegod Records | Bandcamp | Facebook  Antigama were one of the first grind bands I got into around the release of their 2013 album Meteor, and for the longest while, everything else felt soft and bland in contrast. There was something magical in their sound, being the aforementioned concoction of fast-paced, highly technical grindcore with emphasis on ..read more

On Modern Primitive, Septicflesh abides to the album’s title by mainly focusing on pummeling its listeners to mere dust. Release date: May 20, 2022 | Nuclear Blast | Website | Bandcamp | Facebook I’ve never liked symphonic elements in metal music in general, apart from some very, very rare occasions. Septicflesh is an example of such occurrence, ever since they put out The Great Mass in 2011. There’s just something magical about that album that sweeped me off my feet the second I heard it, in all of its majestic and punishing glory. The studio documentary that came alongside the special ..read more

The mid-to-late ’00s were a good time for any groove metal/metalcore-related shenanigans. Finally free from the clutch of nu-metal ingratiation, the bands involved in these two subgenres were free to explore their more extreme inclinations to their hearts’ content. One significant record that dropped within that timeframe has recently celebrated its 15th anniversary: Resurrection by now-defunct genre stalwarts Chimaira. Robert Miklos There’s nothing like fat riffs, rolling chugs, and overall heavy shit to really throw me back. My first contact with the heavier side of metal, besides t ..read more

Part two arrives with a whoosh and a bang, like a stellar meteor falling from the sky. If you missed part one – don’t. What would it look like if you missed an episode of Missed Connections? There’s a lot of music to go around and, even though we publish at least 365 reviews a year, we can’t cover everything, but we try! This particular iteration of one of my favorite features here focuses on some ambient tunes to sun your ears in, groovy metalcore from some scene legends, and a trip – literally – into some psyched-out rock from Germany. Enjoy! Part three next week. Dominik Böhmer ..read more