First gaining momentum in the late 90s with the release of Steelbath Suicide, Soilwork have been playing the melodic death metal game for a long time, evolving from the very fast kind of melodic death metal they started out with over a more powerful, modern variant of the genre to ultimately incorporating more motivational and progressive elements. Read More
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High on Fire – Luminiferous
Oakland Sludge Metal trio High on Fire have been around since the end of the 90s and some of their records, like their 2002 release Surrounded by Thieves, are regarded as essential albums in Sludge Metal. Now they’ve released their seventh record under the title Luminiferous. Read More
The Hirsch Effekt – Holon: Agnosie
The Hirsch Effekt is a progressive/experimental Mathcore/Post-Hardcore project from Germany, that I’ve been paying attention to ever since I was completely fascinated by their performance when they opened for The Dillinger Escape Plan in 2013. Read More
Botanist – Hammer of Botany
Catching my attention for the first time in 2014 with his sixth album VI: Flora, one man experimental black metal project Botanist has now released an EP at the beginning of this month entitled Hammer of Botany. Read More
Leviathan – Scar Sighted
Scar Sighted is the sixth full-length album of Jef “Wrest” Whitehead’s one-man black metal project Leviathan. Read More
Carach Angren – This is no Fairytale
Taking on fairlytales as we know them and twisting them into horrorstories is what dutch symphonic black metal masters Carach Angren set out to do on their fourth studio album called This is no Fairytale and just to get it out of the way beforehand, they succeeded. Read More
Sumac – The Deal
SUMAC is a sludge metal supergroup, featuring members such as ex-Baptists drummer Nick Yacyshyn, Russian Circles bassist Brian Cook and none other than ex-Isis vocalist and guitarist Aaron Turner, who’s probably at his most prolific, looking at his recent output. Read More
Sylosis – Dormant Heart
Sylosis have been around since the early 2000’s and started out as a thrash metal band with heavy metalcore influences, which they started to replace with melodic death metal elements since their second record From the Edge of the Earth. Since then they have played a melodic sort of thrash metal but never tried to hide their metalcore roots. Read More
Old Man Gloom – The Ape of God I & II
Old Man Gloom is a Sludge Metal outfit that, among others, features members of renowned bands such as ISIS and Converge. Read More
At the Gates – At War with Reality
Being one of the genre’s founding fathers, At the Gates played a huge role in shaping the subgenre in the early 90s, preliminarily breaking up in ‘95 after they basically laid down the perfect blueprint for a melodic death metal album with their fourth release entitled Slaughter of the Soul. Read More