Terminal Nation – Holocene Extinction
While the band is musically ugly, confrontational, and catastrophic, it is ultimately just the Mad Max vehicle for their message.
Gravecoven – Coughing Blood
The whole album is bleak and hopeless, yet incredibly, viscerally powerful.
Adzes – No One Wants To Speak About It
Listening might be something akin to swimming in the icy waters off the coast of Seattle, home of the artist.
Forêt Endormie – Une voile déchirée
On Une voile déchirée, this collective of talented artists find a different path to heavy.
Xythlia – Immortality Through Quantum Suicide
It’s ludicrous, anxious fervor that is performed with an unparalleled intensity and crafted proficiency.
0% Hate – At The Mercy Of Our Own
Staccato riffs reside alongside passages of technical proficiency all delivered with the crushing brutality of death metal.
Battle Dagorath – Abyss Horizons
This dismal imagery fits well into the usual black metal motif and creates a tone for the celestial void to be unleashed.
Room 101 – The Burden
It is utterly bleak, like walking into a ghost town.
The Neal Morse Band – The Great Adventour – Live in BRNO 2019
The Great Adventure takes a twist on the story as it follows it from the point of view of the Pilgrim’s son Joseph.
LEGACY REVIEW: Giant Squid – The Ichthyologist
With gelatinous form it escapes the grasp of a one genre categorization, and its grabbing tentacles move freely from genre to genre catching plankton particles from everywhere it moves.