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.
118 reviews
8.5
Amenra
Mass VI
Six pieces of grief that weigh more than any riff on them.
Ilse Brandt
Oct 19, 2026
8.0
Deicide
Serpents of the Light
Thirty minutes of Tampa death metal with the hooks left in.
Rafael Quintero
Oct 19, 2026
8.0
Angelus Apatrida
Aftermath
Spanish thrash veterans open every door, and most of them lead somewhere.
Declan Rourke
Oct 19, 2026
7.5
God Dethroned
The Toxic Touch
The blasts were traded for songs, and the songs won.
Andrzej Sawicki
Oct 19, 2026
7.0
Darkthrone
Dark Thrones and Black Flags
Rough by choice, sharper than it pretends, and still half punk.
Eirik Solvang
Oct 19, 2026
7.5
Soilwork
Sworn to a Great Divide
A great voice inside a machine built to repeat itself.
Andrzej Sawicki
Oct 17, 2026
7.5
Doro
Raise Your Fist
Too long by three songs, and stronger than it had any need to be.
Declan Rourke
Oct 17, 2026
7.5
Soulfly
Ritual
Familiar groove, no surprises, and the pit still goes down.
Jonah Pike
Oct 17, 2026
8.5
Queensryche
Promised Land
A platinum band spent its fortune on silence, and was right to.
Julien Vasseur
Oct 16, 2026
8.0
Melvins
Stoner Witch
A major label paid for the volume and had to take the madness too.
Ilse Brandt
Oct 16, 2026
7.5
Internal Bleeding
Settle All Scores
The old Long Island machine still flattens a room, just never surprises it.
Rafael Quintero
Oct 16, 2026
7.0
ADX
Immortel
A fast, dark French blade that fourteen songs blunt.
Saint Sylveszter
Oct 16, 2026
7.5
The Eternal
Obscured Horizons
The lamp burns true, and the middle of the record disappears in fog
Ilse Brandt
Sep 21, 2026
8.0
Suffering Quota
Sisyphean Life
Eighteen minutes of shift work, and two melodies clocked off early
Gareth Llewellyn
Sep 20, 2026
8.5
Uncle Acid And The Deadbeats
Shapes of Midnight
The murk comes off, the songs stand up, the ending falls short
Ilse Brandt
Sep 20, 2026
7.5
Anthrax
Cursum Perficio
Two songs worth the ten years, and a record that empties out backwards
Saint Sylveszter
Sep 19, 2026
8.0
Hansen
Born with a Hammer
Ten years away, and the range is real even where the sequencing is not.
Julien Vasseur
Sep 19, 2026
8.0
Krallice
Scour Order
The guitars take the load again and the frame holds
Eirik Solvang
Sep 18, 2026
8.0
Tygers of Pan Tang
Electrifyed
The old station runs hot again, right up to its rated load
Declan Rourke
Sep 17, 2026
8.0
Godslave
Godslave
Ten thrash songs built to specification, and best where they break it
Declan Rourke
Sep 16, 2026
8.5
Epitaphe
III
Fifty four minutes cut from one block, the surface left rough
Andrzej Sawicki
Sep 15, 2026
8.5
Archgoat
Nightbringer, Lightbringer
The citadel breached from within, the relics kept, one song in the wrong place.
Andrzej Sawicki
Sep 14, 2026
7.5
Echoes of a Dying World
Revelations
A singer worth wading out for, on a wreck still settling into sand
Rafael Quintero
Sep 14, 2026
7.5
Vulgar Mephitis
From Dust
Extraordinary drumming, eight tight songs, and one experiment arriving far too late
Rafael Quintero
Sep 13, 2026