In this Review Round-Up, Hot Mulligan’s best yet and promising starts from Himalayas and happydaze all come after DevilDriver, whose new album does…basically nothing.
Tag: heavy metal
Lordi tap into classic horror for conceptually their easiest win yet, even if they’re still unable to make a wholly compelling or effective metal album from it.
In this Review Round-Up, punk and metal collide for some thrilling results on new albums from Death Pill and Venomous Concept, alongside some pretty cool alt-pop from ERASE THEORY.
In prioritising their wackier sensibilities and idiosyncrasies, Avatar only end up fracturing an already unstable metal base even further.
In this Review Round-Up, New Pagans prove solid on their album, but the greatest promise can be found in EPs from View From The Soyuz and especially Fuzzy Heart.
Their status as doom-metal legends can’t save Candlemass from a massively disappointing new album, in which they sound flatter, paler and more shallow than ever.
Parkway Drive’s fearless growth into metal enormity continues, continuing to evolve into new forms built on classic influence and modern power.
In this Review Round-Up, new EPs from LIMBS and Speed prove to be impressive within metalcore and hardcore respectively, while RXPTRS’ new album almost reaches the same for metal, but slightly misses the same mark.
In this Review Round-Up, Casket Feeder impress while Imonolith struggle to with their respective types of metal, and Be Well show glimpses of promise on their new EP.
Malevolence continue to prove why they’re one of metal’s most underrated bands on their new album, combining classic scope with hardcore attitude for comfortably one of the year’s best.