Dan Swanö hires an orc as a vocalist and decides to do avant-garde zeuhl death metal, and it works incredibly well.
The Swanö brothers’ band, Pan.Thy.Monium, mixes metal grooves with intelligible death metal gutturals, jazz elements, doom metal parts, and many other elements I can’t even name. The first two tracks make up the majority of the project, and they are over 10 minute avant-garde tracks.
The first of them, The Battle of Geeheeb, is my favorite one. It has a lot ... read more
Yes, the vocals are terrible and some songs feel too basic for a final album, but I can’t really hate on this. In the end, it’s just Dave Mustaine having fun after a long career. Megadeth has delivered many classic albums and songs in the world of thrash metal, and they don’t need to prove anything 40 years into the band’s existence.
There are some good riffs and solos, and honestly, I listen to Megadeth when I want some sick guitar work. The band manages to create some ... read more
Pretty damn solid prog death. I had to listen to some progressive death metal as my first listen of a 2026 album, as it has become my favourite music genre over the last few months.
Denominate is a Finnish prog death band that sounds way too good for having only two thousand monthly listeners. The instrumentation and growls are great overall. I usually respect and enjoy the use of clean vocals in this type of project, but here they didn’t really click for me. However, there are some ... read more
This is so cool. Cool band name, cool sound, cool album name, cool songs. Thank You Scientist is a band I revisit every few months and always end up enjoying a lot. The music is catchy and uplifting, and it puts me in a great mood. The vocals were an acquired taste for me, but I now think they blend very well.
Today it clicked. I've always listened to Opeth, but I had never truly appreciated Orchid and Morningrise the same way I did with the following extreme-metal adjacent Opeth projects. I'm happy it finally clicked, because I was missing out on some beautiful, incredibly beautiful, atmospheres and melodies.
​The growth of these two projects reflects the maturation of my metal taste. Since I properly became a metalhead only around two years ago, I have discovered a lot of songs and ... read more