Hatebreed: Perseverance
Released in 2002, Perseverance confirms the heavyweight status Hatebreed had forged on the metallic hardcore scene. Led by the charismatic Jamey Jasta,…
Released in 2002, Perseverance confirms the heavyweight status Hatebreed had forged on the metallic hardcore scene. Led by the charismatic Jamey Jasta,…
Some debut albums strike with such force that they instantly redefine the rules of the game. Satisfaction Is the Death of Desire,…
Released in 2003, The Rise of Brutality extends the triumphant momentum of Hatebreed after the success of the previous album. Jamey Jasta’s…
There is something reassuring about Hatebreed: since Satisfaction Is the Death of Desire, the Connecticut band has never deviated from its trajectory,…
Few bands marked 2000s hardcore with as much intensity as Have Heart. A Boston outfit led by Patrick Flynn, it embodied a…
Released in 2006, The Things We Carry is Have Heart’s first album, and it was enough to place the Massachusetts band at…
82/100: Finnish pagan black metal in all its epic splendour.
The debut album from the North Carolina band, I Am Hollywood arrives in 2004 and offers a metallic hardcore steeped in Southern…
The second album from the North Carolina band, Suck Out the Poison arrived in 2006 and confirmed the singularity of He Is…
79/100 across eight reviews: the Angelenos push their industrial noise toward apocalyptic pop.
There’s something exhilarating about the way HEALTH closes the Disco chapter and returns to a more direct, darker sound. Rat Wars arrives…
With Antigone, released in 2004, Germany’s Heaven Shall Burn delivered one of the records that would cement its reputation in death-metal-tinged metalcore.…
Released in 2008, Iconoclast is one of the most emblematic albums by Heaven Shall Burn, a German act that built its reputation…
Released in 2010, Invictus extends Heaven Shall Burn’s run at the top of European melodic metalcore. The Latin title, which can be…
In 2013, Heaven Shall Burn returned with Veto, a title that snaps like a refusal. The word says everything about the German…
81/100: the inventors of European power metal, reunited, keep the flame.
84/100: Scottish riff-machine James McBain unleashes his blackened speed metal.
James McBain has never hidden his fondness for dirty riffs and blast-beats that reek of spilled beer over a Marshall amp. With…
The second album from New York band Helmet, Meantime, released in 1992, imposes a pared-down and cerebral vision of alternative metal. Led…
Matt Pike's beast still roars as loud as ever: 81/100 for an implacable sludge record.
Coming out of Leeds, England, Higher Power surprised more than one observer with 27 Miles Underwater, released in 2020. Where the band…
Out of Leeds in the north of England, Higher Power burst onto the scene with a hardcore that refused to be boxed…
Hoobastank’s second album, released in late 2003, The Reason owes nearly everything to its title track. That contrite ballad, a huge worldwide…
78/100: Finnish death/doom in all its melancholic heaviness.
The Americans reconcile old-school death metal and progressive freedom: 88/100 for a record of rare elegance.
Hulder softens her black metal: "finest work to date" for one, missed venom for another. 76/100.
Following the warm welcome given to Godslastering: Hymns of a Forlorn Peasantry, Hulder returns with Verses In Oath, an album that makes…
83/100: the electronicore pioneers deliver an acclaimed return.
Released in 1998, Something Wicked This Way Comes is the fifth album by the American band Iced Earth, led by guitarist and…
The Britons trade rage for love and gain in depth: 83/100 for a daring turn.
With A Place Called Home, released in 2000, Ignite takes an important step in its career. The Orange County band, carried by…
Released in 1995, Call on My Brothers marks Ignite’s first full-length album and lays the foundations of an identity that would set…
There is a delicate art in melodic hardcore: that of marrying power and light, rage and soaring. Ignite has mastered that balance…
83/100: the French mad scientist returns, between metal, baroque and breakcore.
There is something almost brazen in the way Gautier Serre opens this record. After the already extreme stylistic exercise of Savage Sinusoid,…
85/100: the ex-Emperor mastermind unfurls an orchestral, black-metal album of wild ambition.