Patrick Lyons
From nu-metal to Madchester and beyond, the Austin metal trio’s ambitious fourth album brings all their disparate influences under one roof.
1mo
On their first proper album in nine years, the Boston metalcore veterans shift between blistering political bloodlettings and moody reckonings with mortality.
3mo
The Los Angeles hardcore band embraces a sludgy, chaotic sound that plays to their burgeoning strengths.
4mo
The band that helped define the 2010s “emo revival” cements its move in a heavier, proggier direction, centering technical mastery and flashy production on an album that lacks emotional dynamism.
9mo
The visionary, mysterious South Korean musician behind Parannoul broadens his palette for a set of cacophonous, murky compositions.
1y
The Rochester band adds newfound complexity and subtle flourishes to old-school death metal’s classic sound.
1y
The band’s poetic take on rough-hewn heartland rock is simultaneously weirder and more fun than anything in their catalog.
1y
The Louisiana sludge-metal giants have always professed a fondness for classic grunge; they make good on those influences on a streamlined album that’s also one of their heaviest yet.
2y
Despite its jacked-up end-times framing, the former Majical Cloudz singer’s third solo album mostly hews to the melancholy synth pop and emotional interrogations of his previous solo work.
2y
The Virginia band takes the drama of screamo and black metal to grandiose new heights.
2y
The Philadelphia death metal quartet has a blast on its fifth album, veering between styles with uninhibited energy and virtuosic musicianship.
2y
The Naarm, Australia-based duo draws upon its Black and Indigenous heritage to make visceral instrumental metal infused with unmistakable socio-political intent.
2y
On his ninth album, Anthony Gonzalez is still trying to recapture childhood’s pangs of wonderment. This time, his nostalgia leads him back to the youthful drama of his own Before the Dawn Heals Us.
3y
Blending slowcore, ambient, and folk with lo-fi musings on memory and entropy, Portland, Oregon musician Kyle Bates joins a grand tradition of Pacific Northwestern gloom.
3y
On the Vein.fm side project’s full-length debut, these hardcore musicians melt down an entire CD binder’s worth of alt-rock classics and sculpt an alternate timeline out of the pliable remnants.
3y
With a slightly subtler approach, the post-metal band relies on familiar tricks, gesturing at widescreen emotions in an endless sea of sine wave swells.
3y
The Swedish band’s 1986 debut balanced lumbering riffs and operatic drama, spawning the genre of epic doom metal. This reissue pairs its crushing, rough-hewn songs with demos and rehearsal recordings.
3y
After more than a decade away, the New York screamo band draws inspiration from keyboard-led, laser-show prog on this challenging and rewarding reunion album.
4y
Channeling slasher flicks and Dante’s Inferno, the Austin band’s second album of 2021 is a roiling cauldron of scorched-earth sludge and hardcore that doesn’t take itself too seriously.
4y
Abandoning black metal’s harsh intensity in favor of softer, gentler sounds, Deafheaven push themselves into surprising terrain. It’s a tricky proposition.
4y
Proving that he'll keep us guessing for years to come, Kendrick has truly solidified his place in rap history with this album.
11y
IYRTITL is the work of a perfectionist curator, a restless star, a man who has reached the top and now looks over the precipice in a double-effort to repel competition and contemplate his hard-earned, often-perilous position.
11y
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