Tragedy struck Polaris in June this year during their European festival tour when guitar prodigy, Ryan Siew, passed away in mysterious circumstances that have still not been confirmed. As the…
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Cambridge death metal fiends, Celestial Sanctuary, produced one of the defining albums of 2021. Their stock in the UK underground metal scene right now is like a big tech company…
Incantation are legends of New York death metal even if sole surviving founder, John McEntee, now resides in Pennsylvania. As one of the Big Apple four along with Immolation, Mortician…
Scream Blast Repeat enjoyed Nixil’s 2021 debut, All Knots Untied. We remarked that ‘Black metal is a crowded field, but Nixil find it easy to avoid cliché. Their music embraces…
Is there anything more mouth-watering than a sorrowful doom metal band from the genre’s global headquarters in West Yorkshire, England? Hamish Glencross (guitar/vocals) and Shaun Taylor-Steels (drums) are legends of…
Tegmentum are an unusual proposition. They started out in 2012 as a PhD thesis of San Francisco guitar virtuoso, Michael Ball, who produced his one-man debut in 2015. He returned…
*** Go to our YouTube channel in the link below to see the video review of this record in episode #46 of the SBR Album of the Week. A glance…
English prog metal veterans, Threshold, dazzled minds with last year’s Dividing Lines album, but their predecessor record is the raison d’etre for Oblivion Protocol’s existence. Threshold keyboardist, Richard West, enjoyed…
Pennsylvania death metal crew, Horrendous, wondered if they might release another album after 2018’s Idol LP. The usual pressures of working day jobs, raising families, and committing time and dedication…