Irist introduced us to their blend of progressive sludge metal with 2020’s debut, Order of the Mind. With band members from the US, Brazil, Chile and Argentina, they call Atlanta…
Category: Metal
SBR last encountered Tyneside’s Rituals on their 2021 debut EP, Awake. At the time, we noted how ‘their rhythmic foundations are strong, but their song-writing credentials are still in flux,…
Fallujah’s career is on the line with album number five. From the beginning, they ensured a frosty reception among the old school by starting out as a deathcore band in…
Slovenian death metal quartet, Ensanguinate, promise a putrid interpretation of the aging genre by going back to the beginning for inspiration. This does not mean the proto-death metal of Hellhammer…
Megadeth looked like a legacy band after the release of their disastrous Super Collider album in 2013, but then they got back on track with 2016’s excellent Dystopia. It left…
German gothic metal crew, Lacrimas Profundere, are heroes in their home country and one of the best-known groups to emerge from the early 1990s in the wake of Paradise Lost’s…
Pittsburgh thrash revivalists, Mantic Ritual, released their 2009 debut on Nuclear Blast Records and then split up a year later after touring alongside Rotting Christ and Destruction. Jeff Potts (guitars)…
Italian noise extremists, Hierophant, are a unique band. They started as a metallic hardcore unit with their 2010 self-titled debut and continued with a form of blackened d-beat music up…
Georgia mathcore experimentalists, The Callous Daoboys (not The Dallas Cowboys, as your brain wants to say), look like a group of librarians, gambling addicts and metalheads. They answer to the…