Modern Life Is War: Tribulation Worksongs
Modern Life Is War has never played the nostalgia card, and Tribulation Worksongs confirms that the Iowa band remains driven by the…
Modern Life Is War has never played the nostalgia card, and Tribulation Worksongs confirms that the Iowa band remains driven by the…
Released in 2007, Midnight in America is the third album by Modern Life Is War, a band out of Marshalltown, Iowa. Far…
Fever Hunting, out in 2013 on Deathwish, marks the return of Modern Life Is War after several years of silence and a…
Noise rock weds the sensuality of post-punk: 84/100 for a debut of troubling intensity.
Released in 1982, Walk Among Us is the Misfits’s first full studio album and one of the founding texts of horror punk.…
Misery Signals’ debut, Of Malice and the Magnum Heart, arrived in 2004 and immediately staked out a strong identity within a melodic…
Misery Signals’ second album, Mirrors, appeared in 2006 amid a season of change: the band welcomed a new vocalist, Karl Schubach, and…
Misery Signals’ third album, Controller, appeared in 2008 and marked a pivotal step for this North American act devoted to a dense,…
Few bands have left a mark as deep in as little time as Minor Threat. Out of Step, released in 1983, condenses…
Often referred to as Psalm 69, whose full title is « KEFALHXQ », this 1992 record is Ministry’s most famous album. Led by Al…
Hailing from the Hudson Valley in New York State, Mindforce carved out a solid reputation in hardcore through a punchy blend of…
Melodic hardcore reaches out to indie rock: 83/100 for a debut album of fine maturity.
The Canadian noise merchants embrace a new atmospheric breadth: 81/100 for a record of maturity.
Metallica’s third album, Master of Puppets (1986), is routinely named as the peak of thrash metal. Cut at Sweet Silence Studios in…
Released in 2008 on Nuclear Blast, obZen marks a turning point in the story of modern extreme metal. After more than fifteen…
Some records do not seek to charm but to impose their law. Master Killer, released in 1996 by the New Yorkers of…
With Houdini, released in 1993, the Melvins delivered their first album on a major label, Atlantic Records, at the height of the…
Mustaine's goodbye: 62/100 from critics, 48 from the public. Stumbling off the stage.
77/100: the Norwegian black-metal legends deliver a solid if debated record.
The turn: Mastodon drop the concepts for the song, and gain clarity.
The opening shot: a telluric, savage sludge, already of rare power.
The solar record: Mastodon embrace the big chorus, with craft but less risk.
Mastodon's first post-Hinds album is an acclaimed grief record (83/100 Metacritic), cathartic and often magnificent.
The first masterpiece: Moby Dick rewritten in metal, a world-record.
Grief writ large: a dark, sprawling double album, a testament to loss.
The return of the concept: cancer and the desert, a grave and masterful record.
The progressive summit: astral travel, Rasputin and grief, a shattering record.
The ascent: a labyrinthine quest-record, denser and wilder.
Released in 1996, Antichrist Superstar marks a turning point for Marilyn Manson, trading the grimy glam of the early work for a…
There are records that don’t seek to surprise but to deepen a groove already laid out, and Auer belongs to that category.…
83/100: Finnish melodic death/doom cultivates its deep-freeze melancholy.
Released in 1999, Panzer Division Marduk is arguably the most extreme and most concentrated record by Sweden’s Marduk. In barely thirty minutes,…
In 1988 Manowar pushed its vision of epic, warlike, unabashed metal to the very edge. Kings of Metal may be the most…
From Sheffield, Malevolence built their reputation on a simple equation: crushing riffs, groove that never lets go, and just enough melody to…
Four years after their first assault, England’s Malevolence return in 2017 with Self Supremacy, a second album that refines their formula without…
Out of Sheffield, England, Malevolence built their name on a brutal marriage of hardcore and metal. Reign of Suffering, their debut album…