As I stated in my previous review for XLOV’s Rizz, I really want to love this group. It’s frustrating when an act debuts with a legitimately unique concept yet can’t find the music needed to compliment that. I’m waiting for XLOV’s management to realize that… Read More »Song Review: XLOV – Biii:-P
– November 13th, 2025 – Pre-Orders Available SLAYER‘s iconic second studio album, Hell Awaits, is set to receive a 40th anniversary edition reissue via Metal Blade Records next Spring! Formed in 1981, SLAYER assaulted the world with a new hybrid of metal and punk –… Read More »Slayer: Special 40th Anniversary Reissue of “Hell Awaits” to See Release May 15th, 2026 via Metal Blade Records
Absent a full-group comeback, the girls of ARTMS have been blitzing the market with digital singles. Next on the docket is Heejin, who’s shifted into a new genre with sAvioR. The last time I wrote about her on the blog she was dabbling in new… Read More »Song Review: HeeJin (ARTMS) – sAvioR
Sure, the pandemic was a shit stain on the timeline of recent history, but one positive that came out of all that isolation and downtime was the number of bands that formed out of boredom and the need for creative outlets. This includes San Diego’s… Read More »Full Album Stream: Destroy, Erase, Improve? With Negative Blast’s Destroy Myself For Fun
Sort of the polar opposite of Norway’s most renowned extreme metal export (black metal, that is), Oslo outfit Monograf offer a very specific brand of folk-influenced post-metal doom and gloom on their second full-length, Occultation. This talented sextet—Erik Normann Sannes Aanonsen (vocals/guitars/nyckelharpa/synths), Sunniva Molvær Ihlhaug (fiddle),… Read More »Full Album Stream: Monograf –Occultation