Music Reviews

Metal and heavy music album reviews for those that wish to rock

Music Reviews

Metal and heavy music album reviews for those that wish to rock

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Good Saint Nathanael

Hide No Truth

Nate Allen (formerly of Destroy Nate Allen, releasing music newly under the moniker Good Saint Nathanael) released a nine-song full-length record called Hide No Truth, a tantalizing combination of acoustic...

Gideon 2019

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Gideon

No Love/No One

Feb. 1 saw the surprise release of No Love/No One, a ferocious two-song EP from work-tough nü-rockers Gideon. Loaded with the barbed-wire laced title track and backed with the...

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The Drowned God

I'll Always Be the Same

The Drowned God has made a statement of blistering severity on their sophomore record, I’ll Always Be the Same. The eight-song record rests somewhere between an EP and an...

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Mae

Multisensory Aesthetic Experience

Following a nearly ten year hiatus, Mae recently released their first full-length album in said time, Multisensory Aesthetic Experience. After such a long wait, expectations and hopes inevitably were...

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Impending Doom

The Sin and Doom, Vol. II

The earnest introductory prayer on Impending Doom’s gritty 2007 debut Nailed.Dead.Risen is called “Left Behind,” the title cribbing that of author Tim LaHaye’s doomsday drama-turned-film. Yet the now-prolific Christian deathcore band’s...

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Memphis May Fire

Broken

When a band has mastered their craft like Memphis May Fire, it’s no surprise when they continue to release solid records. On their sixth studio album, Broken, the band...

Silent Planet 2018

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Silent Planet

When the End Began

When the End Began is nothing short of spectacular and fans would expect nothing less from the band that has forged such a unique path in the music industry.

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Charlie Hanks

Screaming Away: A Metal Love Story and Memoir

Twenty-seven hours isn’t long to do much of anything, but it’s just enough time to plow through Screaming Away, the surprisingly gripping rock autobiography by Charlie Hanks. As an...

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Weathered

Stranger Here

Facedown Records’ newest addition, Weathered, shows the scene that sometimes it’s the quiet giant that cuts through the noise with the strongest voice. Bringing with them a powerful rock...

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Listener

Being Empty : Being Filled

Spoken word has been slowly infiltrating sub-genres of the rock and hardcore scenes over the recent years. But, for Listener, what started as an underground hip-hop solo project in...

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My Epic

Ultraviolet

“If you got quiet for a moment, finally put your faith where your mouth is, what are you afraid you’ll hear?” My Epic – “Of Wilderness” If there’s one...

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Zao

Pyrrhic Victory

“There’s another four or five songs,” Zao drummer Jeff Gretz told us in November 2016 days before the release of the band’s vivid comeback album, The Well-Intentioned Virus. “I...

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Sleeping Giant

I Am

When listening to Sleeping Giant’s final album, I Am, you’re left with one thought. It’s a notion that vocalist Tommy Green said himself: “I thank God for hardcore.” It’s been...

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Project 86

Sheep Among Wolves

Project 86 has been around longer than their second generation of fans has been alive. After 20 years and ten studio albums, the hard rock veterans continue to deliver...

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Us Underwater

Through Separation

Some of the greatest bands you’ve never heard are active in the Portland indie scene. Whether their anonymity is the fault of an oversaturated local indie market or a...

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Chad Johnson

One Thousand Risks

In modern American society, we’ve been conditioned to believe we have control over everything; the ideas of “miracles” and “healing” are foreign concepts that – for most of us...

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Stryper

God Damn Evil

If there is one band in Christian metal that will not be shaken, it’s Stryper. Blazing the trail for the future of heavy Christian music, Stryper entered the scene...

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Carlos Salazar

Amor En Tierra Ajena (Love In A Foreign Land)

There was a time when Carlos Salazar was the unclean vocalist of Before There Was Rosalyn, a millennial metalcore band from Houston. Their reign was by no means short,...

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U2

Songs of Experience

If I recall my U2 gossip (and I don’t claim to be as fervent about my fandom as others), the band recorded two albums’ worth of material a few...

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Hotel Books

Equivalency

Of all the genres, spoken word has to be the most overtly vulnerable. It shares the genes of melancholy and emo and the dramatic atmosphere of ambient rock. But...

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Your Memorial

Your Memorial

Your Memorial says farewell with this five-song, self-titled EP, and, while the final release from this Twin Cities metalcore act is a bittersweet concept to process, the music couldn’t...

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Hand of Fire

Nuclear Sunrise

Individually within the metal world, they’ve laid claims in previous projects and careers. But together, the men of Hand of Fire are just starting out, signing to Rottweiler Records....

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Fleshkiller

Awaken

Fleshkiller may very well be the ultimate Facedown Records band. Leading the label’s 20-year dominion of Christian heavy metal and hardcore into the next era, the international metal supergroup...

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Lo Tom

Lo Tom

“Baby can’t do no wrong,” David Bazan sings on Lo Tom’s debut self-titled LP. “I think it’s pretty cool.” The former-and-back-again Pedro the Lion frontman is spinning his well-worn...

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Derek Minor

Your Soul Must Fly

Derek Minor has been running his own label (Reflection Music Group) since he left Reach Records in 2014, and, while under his watch, he has brought up some great...

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Nothing More

The Stories We Tell Ourselves

Nothing More has been around the block; their latest album, The Stories We Tell Ourselves, is actually their sixth release. Their most popular — a self-titled release from 2013...

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To Speak of Wolves

Dead in the Shadow

What better way to celebrate ten years as a band than blowing away metalcore standards with another outstanding album? Dead in the Shadow, the long-awaited third album by To...

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Glassworld

Wrecked

Hardcore quartet Glassworld recently released their debut full-length album, Wrecked, and, for many reasons, it’s a unique and solid listen. The work is laced with strict consistency and steers...

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Miss May I

Shadows Inside

Last summer, metalcore veterans Miss May I announced they were leaving Rise Records after five studio albums with the iconic label. Their sixth album, Shadows Inside, became their debut...

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Stephen Christian

Wildfires

It’s been three years now since contemporary Christian phenom Anberlin called it quits. Since then, former frontman Stephen Christian has continued his own musical endeavors to critical acclaim; although...

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