Marduk - Panzer Division Marduk
79

All Loud on the Frontal Lobe

Kreator - Pleasure to Kill
84

Mannn, never been a massive fan of thrash but this fucking kicks ass — lots of great guitar work, riffs and very interesting solos, filthy bass sound and pretty good vocals.
Ripping Corpse is a perfect banger to start off, Riots of Violence is this dynamic, almost beautiful track with those guitars and little gasps for air, The Pestilence is absolutely brilliant throughout, that first riff there, can't describe the face I made when I heard it, didn't fw the first half of Carrion ... read more

Kittie - Spit
73

This album occasionally — with tracks like Charlotte, on those clean vocal passages contrasted with the stoner-ish guitars — reminds me of these zoomergaze/alt metal bands such as Superheaven and Fleshwater, rather ahead of their time; was expecting a standard-sounding late 90s nu-metal album but this is fun, even if it steps back and feels a little dated and tired because of shit like Suck and Trippin, the album comes on again with more interesting ideas on tracks like Do You Think ... read more

Grave - Into The Grave
79

In Love is a very fascinating song

Septicflesh - Communion
81

This is some Eyes Wide Shut type of horror with these arrangements, as they manage to have the orchestra peek in at the right moments to somehow make the music even darker and heavier once the guitars hit, building this strangely cultish sound paired with the clean cut, polished demon on the cover, as if Hell was some collection of infinite porcelain rooms with endless, meticulous methods of torture practiced on every victim there, even if no drop of blood stains the white floors for too long: ... read more

Angelcorpse - The Inexorable
74

Pretty fun, even if it does get you a bit numb after while, but ends before it gets too much on ya

Whitechapel - This Is Exile
83

Across the tracklist, I found real difficult to think of a set that didn't deliver and flesh out every idea it could have, you come out truly satisfied with each one of them by the time the outro hits; smooth, intelligent use of these melodic phrases, riffs and passages against the sheer brutality of the sound's death metal side (rather classy take on the guitar tone there, by the way), truly elevates every single track that does it well because of this dramatic effect and impressive ... read more

Portrayal of Guilt - ...Beginning of The End
70

They're really at their top when they get gritty slow and weird like Human Terror, Object of Pain and the second half of Under Siege, can't say the same personally when they go dumb heavy-fast like most of Heaven's Gate, for example; feels like they're just trying to collect random metal genres as well with some sections within songs or short snippets — like Chamber with this rapping and nu-metal style —, which I thought was done without much coherence at this ... read more

Title Fight - Shed
78

Love tiktokcore

67

This shit pretty heavy but id gone off with some more diversity there — as you do get a little numb after a while — and a not so loud kick, those bass stand were a tad strange as well; maybe slam got to be a mood I have to be in sometimes.
Love the random gory flicks here and there too, pretty gruesome; also goddamn what a great pan snare they got being destroyed occasionally

Om - Advaitic Songs
61

Going into this with the mindset of a traditional stoner metal sound is a terrible thing to do, drumming is great though, even if the songs beat around and never do much with all the ideas there

Virtual Self - Virtual Self
75

Songs are too shorttttt

goreshit - gnb
69

Pretty good production (even if the drums sound a little thin to me) and great sample work, but didnt personally find anything extraordinary here -- as the thing goes on and on and you hear more of the same

Crypsis - Statement of Intent
77

Puts the Hard in Hardstyle

Blur - Parklife
74

Hmmm not really something I'd listen to much really, not even as an album experience exactly cuz the first few songs sound so alike — still solid though, not one "bad" song

aespa - Armageddon
77

Damn right catchy, great production and performances: all around solid kpop album; though i have to say, it kinda dips a little for me in terms of enjoyment past Licorice

Space Laces - Vaultage 003
83

Ain't any ordinary artist that can make a 20min track feel so short

Soul Mass Transit System - HAUSDOGS002
76

Not bad, pretty funky at times

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