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I'll be honest with you, dear reader: I'm tired.

I've found that one of the best vehicles for explaining how I choose what to listen and what to skip is the dichotomy of melody and dissonance.

Boy it has been a while since a black metal release has grabbed me.

Well that's certainly a title for a post!

There aren't many bands as frenetically abrasive yet immensely enjoyable as Frontierer.

Top Picks Things that go hard for 400 please!

The main problem which keeps me from reviewing post-rock as often as I used to do is that every post prompts self-introspection into why I don't review, and listen to, post-rock as often as I used to do.

Entheos have been slowly yet effectively evolving their sound with every new release.

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Top Pick The Number Twelve Looks Like You – Howls From The Holographic Heart (progressive mathcore, screamo-gaze) Between this and Wild Gods (2019), cult favourites The Number Twelve Looks Like You are out here consistently (if intermittently) proving the…

Back in the day when we were reckoning with the rise of big, excessive progressive and technical death metal, there used to be a term used in Heavy Blog circles.

As one of the premier torch-carriers of melancholic melodic death metal, and pioneers of the now much-aped Insomnium Gatherum style, a new Insomnium album ever fills my blackened heart with a cold and biting joy.

When the drummer of this band half-jokingly pitched their new project as “Car Bomb meets The Killers”, I knew that was a combination I had to write about.

Release Roundup Acerbated – Lurking Deep Within (blackish death metal) Amaseffer – When The Lions Leave Their Den (folky prog metal) Ashes Of Autumn – The Darker Side Of Now (melodic rock/metal) Avrak – Avrak (crust rock/metal) Bangkitan – I Want To Belie…

Progressive rock can be defined in many ways but one of my favorites is with the tension between a frenetic, jittery energy and sweet, soothing melody.

Out of all of the underrated bands I know, Boss Keloid have to be among the most underrated.

What’s old is always new again.

Top Pick To The Grave – Liberation Front (brutal deathcore) To the Grave have been gradually refining their sound across their career, with previous outing Everyone's a Murderer (2024) being both their best and most uneven release yet.

With autumn extending its chilly tendrils and release season in full swing, I found myself in the welcome but somewhat overwhelming company of three album promo’s clamoring for review.

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