loud rock
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Vein’s debut album offers a diverting blend of metalcore and alternative metal styles as well as its share of growing pains.
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Godsmack sounds a whole lot like a born-again Metallica cover band on When Legends Rise.
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Prequelle may be slightly less edgy than Ghost’s previous work, but is one of the band’s most well written and produced batches of songs to date, and its loose concept keeps things just fresh enough.
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The two-disc Scars of Man finds Panopticon separating the black metal and American folk elements of his music, rendering it generic.
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Stoner metal titan Sleep makes a hell of a comeback with The Sciences, which encompasses both the band’s classic sound and influences from the members’ other creative endeavors over the past 15 years.
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Blanck Mass is the solo project of Benjamin John Power, a founding member of the British experimental electronic duo Fuck Buttons. On previous Blanck Mass projects Power has experimented with dark, droning electronic music that contrasts with the often colorful sound of Fuck Buttons. Surprisingly, Power all but abandons electronica
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Plague Transmissions Vol. 1 is one of the ugliest and most standout death metal projects I’ve heard in a while.
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Aaron Turner’s Sumac joins forces with legendary noise rock experimentalist Keiji Haino for an hour’s worth of mind-melting post-metal jams.
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At nearly 50 years old as a band, Judas Priest has just released not only a late career highlight, but one of the greatest heavy metal albums of the decade.
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Though there are some bright spots and risks that pay off, Turnstile’s sophomore album mostly offers run-of-the-mill New York hardcore with a bit of window dressing.
