Normally, this time of year I’d be publishing a post about my “songs of the summer” for 2026, but the state of K-pop has forced me to write something else instead. Trust me, I didn’t want to! I’ve been writing about K-pop for a decade… Read More »K-Pop’s Bummer Summer: What went so horribly wrong?
Italian tech-thrash/death metal mutants Miscreance sound like they were built in a lab from the best wrong parts of several different eras. On Reminiscence, the Northern Italian quartet take the old-school technical death metal blueprint—Death, Atheist, Coroner, Sadus, all the good stuff—and drag it through… Read More »Album Premiere: Miscreance – Reminiscense
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 »X:IN: A Career In Song Ratings
Along with The Bias List, SF9 are celebrating their tenth anniversary. This is a big deal, as not all acts reach this milestone. And honoring its significance, the guys have released a full album of new material. In 2026, this is also a big deal!… Read More »Song Review: SF9 – Without Wings
Ninth Realm have been one of the United States’ strongest death-thrash practitioners since forming in 2018 and they’re in their sharpest form yet on Damnation’s Veil, their second full-length and tenth release overall. Though it doesn’t come out officially until later this week on Transcending Obscurity, you… Read More »Full Album Stream: Ninth Realm – “Damnation’s Veil”