Arduini/Balich – Dawn of Ages
The album delivers torrents of guitars, deluge after deluge of roar and wail, with riffs that are more often engaging and accessible than dizzying and speed-driven.
Fen – Winter
My favorite albums are ones that present a cohesive vision and Fen have certainly delivered this in spades.
Tumourboy – Damaged System
Listening to Damaged System, released in early 2016, was like taking a trip to the 1980’s only without the stone-washed denim and Aquanet hair.
Black Anvil – As Was
With their fourth full length release As Was, Black Anvil is fast becoming the US answer to Enslaved (as a huge fan of the latter, this is not a comparison I make lightly).
Sunlight’s Bane – The Blackest Volume: Like All The Earth Was Buried
This album may be the darkest cleansing fire I have ever witnessed.
Obituary – Obituary
Long-time Obituary fans will be very happy with the variety on the album and it may even be enough to win back some fans that left them for dead.
Behind the Sun – Post Solis
North Carolina’s Behind the Sun deliver a blistering five songs full of the heavy riffs, rhythmic shifts, and choral ensembles of growl not unknown in the prog side of death metal.
Stories Through Storms – What Keeps Me Up At Night (Interview and Review)
Featuring two vocalists, each track switches smoothly between metal screams, melodic verses, and rap choruses creating a sound unlike other metalcore bands.
Dakhma – Suna Kulto
What the band certainly is not, is soft. They have all the intensity of a fully loaded freight train bearing down on you.
Pestilent Age – Novgorod
Two different writers take a crack at this Michigan release. Check it out.