Shoegaze atmosphere, metal intensity and a stark lyrical grip come together on Love Is Noise’s scintillating debut.
Tag: Century Media Records
Lacuna Coil’s stride in gothic-metal continues on their new album, as well as the last decade of creative moves that continue to pay off handsomely.
Body Count’s new album finds Ice-T and crew on the exact street-level thrash wavelength as always, though more of that is never a bad thing.
In this Review Round-Up, there’s great stuff all round, encompassing goth-metal from Tribulation, emo from Clay J Gladstone, and another uncategorisable punk firebomb from Meryl Streek.
On a debut full-length caked in fire and dominating savagery, Heriot’s status as one of British metal’s premier buzz-bands is justified and then some.
In this Review Round-Up, genre experiments from Zeal & Ardor and Frozemode yield a mixed bag (with one much better than the other), while Dark Tranquillity provide some welcome reliability.
In this Review Round-Up, a variety of metal brings marginally-better-than-average metalcore from GHØSTKID and AVRALIZE; middling symphonic-metal from Leaves’ Eyes; and a great slab of grimness from Mastiff.
From Eurovision finalists to nu-metal faces in the crowd, Blind Channel’s new album struggles to muster up anything worth getting invested in.
In this Review Round-Up, Slope easily rise to the top of the pile with daring, forward-thinking relentlessly kinetic new album. Meanwhile, Levels and Same Side’s new ones are anything but, but at least the latter has some charm.
In this Review Round-Up, Frozen Soul make their solid next impact on death metal, though there’s arguably more intrigue and complexity to be found in new albums from Esben And The Witch and Bad//Dreems.