Bearsharktopus

Most music nerds would be legitimately hard pressed if you asked them what their all time favorite band was, but for me, personally, I think ETID would be a solid god damn contender. Not only are they one of the most consistent and influential heavy bands of the past 20 years, but I count the vast majority of their discography in my all time personal favorites. YET SOMEHOW, DESPITE ALL THESE EXTREMELY INSANE EXPECTATION GOING IN, this is easily one of their best albums of their entire career, ... read more

If you’re in the most likely large boat of people who are pissed and/or confused that the new ETID album didn’t make it higher on my list, you’re clearly also on the unfortunate boat of people who haven’t heard the latest from UK-based mathcore lads Frontierer. To call this record heavy would be an understatement of epic proportions. This album is god damn fucking relentless insanity from front to back, with some of the heaviest guitar tones I’ve ever heard in my ... read more

If you really want to experience some of the most exciting and creative insanity going on in heavy music today, you need look no further than The Armed even before their absolutely triumphant 2021 record was released. They’ve always pushed the edges of an already extreme style of absolutely brutal, noisey mathcore, but I could have never expected what they accomplished with ULTRAPOP.

While it continues to be rooted in extreme heavy music, The Armed somehow perfectly blended in elements ... read more

I got wind of a new Archspire album pretty late overall, but even without hearing any singles beforehand I was beyond excited for this release. Archspire’s 2017 record Relentless Mutation was essentially the reason I got into technical death metal and probably my favorite albums in the genre to date. Even then, it’s hard to put into words how instantaneously this album floored me. The pure technical insanity of every single musician in the band quite literally had my jaw open and my ... read more