Biohazard: Urban Discipline
Released in 1992, Urban Discipline captures Biohazard at the peak of their intensity, at the precise moment when the borough of Brooklyn…
Released in 1992, Urban Discipline captures Biohazard at the peak of their intensity, at the precise moment when the borough of Brooklyn…
Released in 2022, Gris Klein is the third album by the French trio Birds in Row, from Laval. The band, which has…
A French trio that deliberately keeps a low profile, Birds in Row has established itself as one of the most respected names…
Released in 2014, You, Me & the Violence is the debut album by the French trio Birds in Row, issued on a…
83/100: Bizarrekult's melodic, modern Norwegian black metal wins over listeners.
There is something profoundly unsettling about the way Bizarrekult manages to blend raw rage with an almost chamber-like melancholy. Den Tapte Krigen…
There are records that do not merely exist: they blow a hole in the wall. Damaged, released in 1981, is one of…
Released in 1984, My War is Black Flag’s second studio album and one of the most radical records of their career. The…
Released in 1984, the same year as My War, Slip It In extends Black Flag’s heavy, dark turn. The band keeps exploring…
Wasted…Again isn’t a proper studio album, it’s a compilation released on SST Records in 1987, after Black Flag had already broken up.…
Black Sabbath’s second album, released in 1970, Paranoid is one of heavy metal’s birth certificates. Produced by Rodger Bain, it arrived the…
85/100: Sgah'gahsowáh's atmospheric, Native American black metal keeps fascinating.
79/100 across ten reviews: the Americans' dreamlike psychedelic doom still enchants.
There are albums that arrive at just the right moment, carried by a momentum you can feel almost physically from the first…
83/100: the Scots confirm their place atop modern European metalcore.
Released in 2006, The Truth marks an important turn for Bleeding Through, an emblematic band of the Orange County scene. The lineup…
In 2003, Bleeding Through released This Is Love, This Is Murderous, an album that concentrates the energy of the Orange County metalcore…
Blind Guardian’s sixth album, Nightfall in Middle-Earth, released in 1998, is a summit of European power metal. Conceived as a concept album…
The Norwegians confirm their supercharged hardcore pop punk: 80/100 for an explosive, melodic record.
87/100 across fourteen reviews: the Americans' cosmic death metal reaches a new dimension.
When Bloodbath released Resurrection Through Carnage in 2002, the project already wore the flattering supergroup label. Bringing together musicians from Opeth and…
The French band's sonic nightmare reaches an unprecedented intensity: 85/100 for a haunted record.
Released in 1992, Body Count’s debut is a detonation at the crossroads of thrash metal and rap, orchestrated by Ice-T and his…
"Heavy as fuck": 78/100 for the Floridian demolition machine, tried-and-true formula included.
Speak Out, released in 1988, sits at the heart of the youth crew wave that was then redefining American hardcore. Bold, a…
By 1992 Bolt Thrower were already a pillar of the British scene, but The IVth Crusade marked a clear turn toward greater…
The insatiable Japanese replay their riff library with glee: 80/100 for a third "Heavy Rocks".
Borknagar’s second album, The Olden Domain (1997), confirms the ambition of the project founded by guitarist Oystein Garnes Brun: to wed black…
80/100: the American progressive-metalcore act hold their high technical level.
The first studio album from the Tacoma band, American Nervoso appeared in 1998 and laid one of the earliest stones of what…
Released in 1999, We Are the Romans is the second and final studio album from the Tacoma band, and it stands as…
Grief spat with venom: great metalcore songs undercut by an over-compressed mix.
With Phobia, Breaking Benjamin sharpen a brand of alternative metal built for big rooms, balancing controlled aggression with tightly drawn choruses. Benjamin…
With amo, released in 2019, Bring Me the Horizon push their logic of openness even further. This sixth album, whose title means…
Sempiternal, released in 2013, marks the moment when Bring Me the Horizon left the deathcore of their early days for good to…
Bring Me the Horizon’s second album, Suicide Season, appeared in 2008 and marks a genuine rupture in the path of the Sheffield…