In this Review Round-Up, Kvelertak end up doing way more with their new album than either Conquer Divide, Mustard Plug or With Honor, all of whom end up with mid-range genre releases in metalcore, ska-punk and hardcore respectively.
Tag: Rise Records
Showing off every aspect of brutality in their repertoire across two new albums, The Acacia Strain deliver their most accomplished bodies of work to date.
Crown The Empire continue to stroll along into metalcore pedestrianism, and it’s truly hard to care.
Between inherent singer-songwriter limitations and the cloying potential of his work in Mayday Parade, Derek Sanders’ newest solo EP struggles to do much of anything at all.
You Me At Six begin to get back on track with some more explosive alt-rock, even if the issues from their most recent endeavours still persist alongside it.
Polyphia’s new album asserts their dominance among modern prog, bringing more variety than ever and an electricity that’s difficult to not be engrossed by.
In this Review Round-Up, Spielbergs and THICK really come into their own on their new albums, alongside great deathcore from Spite, and high-end post-punk from LIFE.
The usual cacophony of noise and sugar-high post-hardcore yields the same results as ever for Dance Gavin Dance, only longer and more unnecessary.
Mothica’s new album might have more conceptual detail than many of its alt-pop contemporaries, but under-delivers in other areas to average out as rather middling.
In this Review Round-Up, Baby Strange and Social Animals deliver a pair of solid—if unremarkable—albums, dented by a disappointment from Onelinedrawing.