Album Reviews

The Amity Affliction Add Reeves, Return Reinvigorated With Rousing House Of Cards

Is it possible for a record to have back to back to back to back to back to back to back to back to back to back to back to back to back bangers on a release? If you’re The Amity Affliction and releasing your 9th record then that’s exactly [...]

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Carpenter Brut Completes Their “Leather Trilogy” With Leather Temple, Prepares For Live Electro Showdown With HEALTH

What a world we live in where the sub-genre of Instrumental Industrial/Electro has such artists like Carpenter Brut putting out the kind of music they do especially with a release such as Leather Temple capping off a 3-album trilogy started on 2018’s Leather Teeth.

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Call To The Void Call To The Greats, Deliver Gothic Alternative Anthems On The Power Of Intention

When THE Queen B (We’re, of course, talking about My Ruin’s Tairrie B. Murphy) blesses a project then, for us at least, we know it’s something that we need to keep a watchful eye (And obviously ear…) out for. That said, when Call To The Void’s vocalist Jack Osborne appeared [...]

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Corrosion Of Conformity Unleash 11th Full-Length Good God/Baad Man, Possibly Best Yet, Hit The Road For Headline And Co-Headline Runs

Make no mistake, Good God/Baad Man is a BEAST of a record from Corrosion Of Conformity. If you were in some way, shape or form left feeling somewhat underwhelmed when the quartet version of COC finally returned with 2018’s No Cross No Crown then their 11th full-length is here to [...]

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Poison Ruïn Unveil Track After Track Of Epic Timeless Post-Punk Perfection On Hymns from the Hills

We were complaining at the end of last year when it came to finalizing our end of the year list but 2025 apparently had nothing on 2026 with the sheer amount of AOTY contenders THIS EARLY IN THE YEAR! It’s mid-March when we started this review and the top spot [...]

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Sludge Mother Master All Things Grunge On Glorious New EP How Can Anything Bloom?

We’re going to stop trying to sort/figure out how some artists come into our orbit and just trust that there’s some higher power at work that puts the ones we’re meant to shine a light on in front of us at the right time. Take Sludge Mother example! We’re casually [...]

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