Now, this is how you metalcore and make it interesting in 2020, baby!

This is a HUGE step up from this band's first LP in my opinion. The Annex of Ire from Neck of the Woods is a stellar, captivating, and sometimes beautiful genre confused metalcore album that nobody should miss this year.

Top Tracks: The Annex of Ire, Skin Your Teeth, Crosshairs Will Shift
Rating: 8.4/10

Serpent Column at it again with another dissonant, immense, technical, LOUD, and unabashedly violent black metal BANGER. Can we even call this black metal at this point? This is a dominant blast of sound. It's so thick with layers. It's so juicy. There's so much going on. How does one even wrap their head around these ideas to tie this all together? This guy can't be stopped. And I can't stop listening. Absolutely astonishing, and the most impressive part is how much quality content Serpent ... read more

Alright alright alright. Let's get INTO this thing. I've had this on repeat for a while and it's really been getting in my head, so I think I'll do something I don't usually do... track by track review!!!

(deeperthanbefore) - Let's take a good look at you... STATIC SCREAMING AHHHH........... Let's take a good look at you.

Swallowing the Rabbit Whole - I don't care, man. This will go down as one of the best heavy songs of the year if not the decade. This is a rhythmic pummeling that I will ... read more

Absolutely beautiful work from the one-man-show atmospheric black metal act from Indonesia, Pure Wrath. And although this is gorgeous, the subject matter is harrowing. While providing soaring melodies and searing metal passages, Januaryo Hardy also opens up a history book into a terrible, dark time in his home's past. A dark time I had not heard of before; the Indonesian genocide of 1965-66.

"The Forlorn Soldier" is not only brutal and epic, it is educational. A look into a dark ... read more