– August 27th, 2026 – New Album The Allfather Awakens Out October 2 via Metal Blade Records – Pre-Order / Pre-Save Credit: Sylwia Makris & Christian Martin Weiss AMON AMARTH return with “Eight Legs of Thunder,” a steamrolling new anthem inspired by Sleipnir, the legendary… Read More »Amon Amarth Debut “Eight Legs of Thunder” Single/Video
There are a number of acts who have debuted in the past few decades and have dozens of song ratings on this blog. I thought it would be fun to lay these ratings out in chronological order, line-graph style, and take a macro view of… Read More »ALPHABAT: A Career In Song Ratings
HITGS debuted as a kiddie group with catchy but cloying material. They’re still quite young, but their work has grown more palatable with time. Today, they’re back with digital single Gulliver, chronicling a crush on a guy with that same name. I wonder how common… Read More »Song Review: HITGS – Gulliver!
I’ve joked before that TNX only give us one single per year, but they’ve broken that streak in 2026. Their last comeback was all the way back in January, but they’ve returned with digital single Die Another Day. The song sees them tackling a new… Read More »Song Review: TNX – Die Another Day
Forest Brienne Cutrer is not widely known in the metal community. She is nonetheless doing some of the most confrontational boundary-pushing black metal music today. While most black metal can be sadly conservative and traffic in 1995 tropes, Cutrer is way beyond church arson and… Read More »Q&A: Forest Brienne Cutrer (Bury Them and Keep Quiet) On Personal Transformation and “Positive Nihilism”