Reviews
Records the editors have actually sat with, scored out of ten. A high mark is an argument, not a favour, and the write-up has to earn it.
82 reviews
8.0
Gorod
The Ember Gone
Slower clockwork, sharper blades, and one long song too many.
Rafael Quintero
Sep 1, 2026
8.0
Exumer
Death Mask Messiah
Poured hot, cut lean, and still cast from the old Teutonic mould
Saint Sylveszter
Aug 31, 2026
9.3
Mayhem
De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas
The cathedral the genre still worships in, with the right priest howling
Eirik Solvang
Aug 30, 2026
8.5
The Night Eternal
Cold Velvet
Velvet cut close over steel, with a single seam pulling loose.
Declan Rourke
Aug 29, 2026
9.0
Death
Symbolic
The cleanest stone Chuck Schuldiner ever cut, and nearly every facet burns.
Rafael Quintero
Aug 28, 2026
6.5
Ministry
The Squirrely Years Revisited
He burned the tapes, then spent forty years arguing with the ashes.
Curtis Vance
Aug 27, 2026
7.5
Xandria
Eclipse
Beautifully engineered clockwork and a superb singer, circling a sky already mapped
Julien Vasseur
Aug 26, 2026
9.5
Slayer
Reign in Blood
Under half an hour of floodwater, and the valley never dried out.
Saint Sylveszter
Aug 25, 2026
9.0
Fen
Elemental (Part 1: Mourning Earth)
Forty-seven minutes of slow erosion that cut clean down to bedrock
Eirik Solvang
Aug 24, 2026
9.0
Helloween
Keeper of the Seven Keys Part I
The first true map of power metal, and only half the continent
Julien Vasseur
Aug 23, 2026
9.0
Pantera
Vulgar Display of Power
Six bare-knuckle shots flatten the room, and the rest is a victory lap
Jonah Pike
Aug 22, 2026
9.0
Carcass
Heartwork
Goregrind's pathologists turned surgeons, and every incision still holds thirty years on
Andrzej Sawicki
Aug 21, 2026
9.4
Iron Maiden
The Number of the Beast
One lame horse in the column, and still the charge that took the field.
Declan Rourke
Aug 20, 2026
9.3
Opeth
Blackwater Park
Still water over a drowned forest, and every tooth still sharp.
Julien Vasseur
Aug 19, 2026
8.0
Cancer Bats
Give Me Dirt
Their hardest swing in years, with a soft patch in the middle.
Gareth Llewellyn
Aug 19, 2026
9.5
Black Sabbath
Paranoid
Poured in days, and the whole genre is still cooling around it
Ilse Brandt
Aug 18, 2026
7.5
Marilyn Manson
One Assassination Under God - Chapter 2
Not leftovers but the darker back rooms, with the riffs in storage
Curtis Vance
Aug 17, 2026
9.5
Metallica
Master of Puppets
The siege that broke thrash open, fought twice from the same plans
Saint Sylveszter
Aug 17, 2026
7.5
Electric Callboy
TANZNEID
Ten rides worth the queue, most of them ridden before the gates opened
Jonah Pike
Aug 15, 2026
8.5
Cryptopsy
An Insatiable Violence
Nine albums deep and still the fastest room in Quebec.
Rafael Quintero
Aug 13, 2026
8.5
Hulder
Verbolgen
The finest hand Hulder has shown, and the ink runs thin late on
Eirik Solvang
Aug 11, 2026
8.0
Taake
En skog av nidstang
Four poles of scorn planted true, and left standing a little too long.
Eirik Solvang
Aug 6, 2026
8.0
Altarage
Cogwheel
Every tooth bites, and the transmission carries one gear more than it needs
Curtis Vance
Aug 3, 2026
8.5
Saxon
Wheels of Steel
The album that bought a career, and still sounds like it knew.
Declan Rourke
Aug 1, 2026