Castle Rat – The Bestiary Review
New York’s Castle Rat generated buzz off the back of their impressive slab of fantasy-inspired doom rock featured…
Novembers Doom – Major Arcana Review
Chicago’s Novembers Doom have charted a unique course for themselves over the last 30 years. Their unnatural pairing…
The Final Witness – Beneath the Altar Review
By: Nameless_n00b_607 In a genre long since matured, a common way to avoid retreads is to combine multiple…
Stuck in the Filter: June 2025’s Angry Misses
Sweat pours out of our pores. Heat blisters metal and scorches dirt. Power bills rise relentlessly, without mercy.…
Ancient Torment – Follow the Echo of Curses Review
“Between grief and nothing, I will take grief.” –William Faulkner, The Wild Palms How do you grieve? Do…
Panopticon – Laurentian Blue Review
With the mammoth Panopticon ranking and the electrifying Månegarm review behind us, we can now look towards the…
Abhorrent Expanse – Enter the Misanthropocene Review
How experimental is too experimental? That’s the question Chicago’s Abhorrent Expanse posits. It’s clear from the title: Enter…
Stuck in the Filter: May 2025’s Angry Misses
Every day we toil, rain or shine, to find you the semi-finest ore of the month. Lately, though,…
Grayceon – Then the Darkness Review
Novelty in the metalsphere exists in many folds, whether it be the marrying of virtuosity and familiar structures…
Recorruptor – Sorrow Will Drown Us All Review
One of the most entertaining things about describing death metal in any of its iterations is the limitless…
Hibernaut – Obsidian Eye Review
It was only a matter of time before I found a group from my hometown to write about.…
Blind Equation – A Funeral in Purgatory Review
When I reach for something blindly, I hope for the best. As it pertains to the acquisition of…