Dead Kennedys: Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables
Released in 1980, Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables is the Dead Kennedys’s first album and one of the most incisive records of…
Released in 1980, Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables is the Dead Kennedys’s first album and one of the most incisive records of…
Released in 2000, after the band’s dissolution, I Know Your Tragedy is not a new studio album but a compilation filling the…
83/100: the improbable return of the 1990s chaotic-metalcore pioneers.
83/100 across twenty-one reviews: the blackgaze pioneers reconnect with fury.
Death Angel’s first album, The Ultra-Violence (1987), is one of the most astonishing debuts of San Francisco Bay Area thrash, all the…
Released in 2009, Count Me In confirms the solidity of Death Before Dishonor within the Boston hardcore scene. A relentless touring band,…
Some bands embody a whole city, and Death Before Dishonor carries Boston in every one of their chords. Released in 2005, Friends…
In 1995 Death released Symbolic, often regarded as the peak of Chuck Schuldiner’s career. A pioneer of death metal, the guitarist and…
Released in 2002, Nihility is Decapitated’s second album, and it already definitively establishes the Polish band as a major force in world…
The debut album by American band Ded, Mis-an-thrope openly embraces its early 2000s nu metal heritage. Downtuned riffs, vocals alternating between spat…
A torrent of energy from great-grandfathers: 76/100, Purple's best reception in ages.
Founded by JJ Peters, Deez Nuts has always claimed a festive, urban and unashamed brand of hardcore. With Bout It, out in…
There is something bold about naming a festive hardcore record after the untranslatable Portuguese word for a bittersweet longing. Deez Nuts, the…
Born from the energy of JJ Peters, former drummer of an Australian metalcore band, Deez Nuts immediately took the opposite tack from…
Two years after Bout It, Deez Nuts returns in 2015 with Word Is Bond, a title that sums up the band’s whole…
Released in 1994, Armas pal pueblo is the record that firmly established Def Con Dos within the Spanish rap metal landscape. Led…
84/100: the Germans, masters of technical brutal death, push the genre's limits.
There’s something almost absurd about watching a band so deeply rooted in extreme technicality continue, album after album, to push beyond what…
Out in 2015 on Epitaph, Abandoned marks a new step in Defeater’s narrative universe. The Massachusetts band shifts perspective and hands the…
Released in 2011 on Bridge Nine, Empty Days & Sleepless Nights extends the storytelling arc Defeater began on Travels. The Massachusetts band…
With Letters Home, Defeater deepens its ambitious family saga by tracing back to the origins: the father, before everything. It’s a bold…
Released in 2008, Travels is Defeater’s first album, from the Massachusetts band that would become one of the major names in melodic…
The first cry: a raw, sincere nu-metal already shot through with flashes of genius.
The step up: heavier, finer, the band finds its soft/violent dynamic.
The black album: denser, more tormented, a wrongly unloved record.
The rebirth: after tragedy, a luminous and vital record.
The divisive record: bold, unleashed, more fragile than its neighbours.
The perfect balance: heaviness and grace reconciled, a near-masterpiece.
The great return: reunited with Terry Date, a taut and masterful record.
87/100 across nineteen reviews: the alternative-metal masters return to near-unanimous acclaim.
The album of crisis: born in pain, cracked but haunted.
The masterpiece: where metal meets the dream, a unanimously cult record.
Deicide’s self-titled debut, released in 1990, immediately established the Florida band as one of the most radical and provocative acts in death…
85/100: the German atmospheric-black-metal outfit reach a rare intensity.
There’s something almost provocative in the way Der Weg einer Freiheit opens Noktvrn: no gradual build-up, no muffled entry point, but a…
Released in 1982, Milo Goes to College is the Descendents’s first album and one of the most influential records in the genesis…