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

Weak project by Nas and DJ Premier. From Writers to Nasty Esco Nasir we get a decent run of tracks, but the rest of the project feels pretty forgettable. Overall underwhelming, I don’t think I’ll come back a lot to this, especially considering how many amazingly produced hip-hop projects we get nowadays and how many classic tracks Nas has. His rapping is still solid, but he ends up carrying the uninspired and redundant production from Primo.

Cool short colection of songs. First four tracks capture Sybreed's cyber metal sound, with groovy djenty riffs and plenty of dynamics between cleans and harsh vocals. Plasmaterial was my favourite track here.

This just sounds bad. I found enjoyable moments on Life is but a dream and I like a lot a7x, but this is just bad.

Symphony X might be the most underrated band on AOTY. Evolution, Fallen and Rediscovery II are some of the best prog metal songs ever.

Spotify cooked with this recommendation.

Cyber metal is a fun genre. Sybreed’s Antares takes what I like most from djent and from other bands like Fear Factory and Scar Symmetry. I got recommended “Emma-0,” one of the best tracks here, and I instantly got vibes of Scar Symmetry’s Holographic Universe in the use of clean and harsh vocals, the catchy melodic choruses, and the futuristic feel. Sybreed builds all of this on a more industrial sound with very groovy and ... read more

Still a 8 minute track left and this can already be the best post-hardcore project I heard omg. I had only heard Doppleganger and this is like 10× better. Reminds me a lot of The Mars Volta and Thank You Scientist, two bands I love, but this might even be better. This EP is full of interesting and creative instrumental and vocal changes, and it hits so hard.

Edit: part 5 is also amazing

I've listened to the Leaders-Consternation run like every day of november, banger after banger. Katatonia has here one of my favourite guitar sounds, riffs are great, choruses are catchy and production is neat. Only flaw is that vocals fall a bit flat and last three songs are somewhat redundant. Even so, the sound here is elegant and addictive.

This might be my favorite EP of all time. Every second is memorable here and all the parts together craft the best djent song I've ever heard (song so good I came back here to review it). Concealing fate sounds heavy but ethereal, riffs here are technical but so damn groovy and memorable and the clean vocal melodies get me every time. This EP has an emotional depth that makes It stand out for me in comparison with the great part of djent bands, it makes you pull stank faces while you are ... read more

Superband Bloodbath's second LP Nightmares made Flesh is one of the best death metal albums that mix old school death metal sound with more modern production. The groovy parts are pure fun, the quicker thrashy ones slap, the riffing is insane and the songs are catchy. Year of the Cadaver Race is now one of my favourite death metal songs, and Eaten, Cancer of the Soul and Brave New Hell are also incredible bangers.

Unintresting and forgettable. Not the worst thing I've ever heard, but probably not going to return to this. It starts decent but I couldn't finish any song of the second half. Also, I hate Don Toliver's voice.

Wow @HomeSession3, just wow. Incredible recommendation, thanks man. ¿1000 monthly listeners, 4 user ratings? No sense, what a hidden gem, just incredible.

The Boy Will Drown's debut LP and also their last project, Fetish, blends mathy and technical death metal with deathcore creating a flawless record that melts the mathy quick tempo changes, with the technicality of the guitar and drum work and the proper deathcore breakdowns and groovy parts. The runtime is half an hour, which is ... read more

Through Shadows is my first project from Born of Osiris, and it was all over the place. I thought Born of Osiris was a straight deathcore band, but Through Shadows is a set of djenty metalcore/trancecore tracks. There are some cool funny riffs here, but the electronic elements and the choruses kind of ruin the experience for me. I usually like melodic choruses in metal songs and electronic elements when they are well implemented, but for me they don't fit in most cases in this project.

Boldy's 376th project of 2025 is his best of this year. Lato To My Own Funeral is a 30 minute collection of smooth gangsta rap that works but doesn't get me crazy. Rapping is decent, production is decent, but nothing amazing and far away from Boldy's peak some years ago. Also dropping so many projects makes them more forgettable in the end.

Good metalgaze, there are a lot of bands that mix alt metal with shoegaze and some of then are just mid and sound like Deftones ripoffs, but Split Chain feels fresh. The songs are kinda samey but the project doesn't feel long or repetitive, just straight catchy great track after great track Solid debut, I will have this band on the radar for future releases.

I love Linkin Park, but I never gave From Zero a opportunity. Hybrid Theory and Meteora are all time favorites of mine, but this is just mid, not terrible but not good. While I wasn't expecting anything on par with those two projects, I was hoping for a couple of good songs so I wouldn't always hear the same Linkin Park songs on loop, but not even that. I don't think Emily is a bad vocalist, but they really sound like a tribute band or a ripoff. There are some good moments; Two ... read more