Celluloid Dissonance

Esca’s Thalassophobia is the sort of progressive death metal record that makes technical proficiency feel dangerous again. The Bristol four-piece clearly knows its way around complicated arrangements, shifting  ...

Some records age gracefully. Others sit in the dark for eighteen years, sharpening knives. Originally self-released in 2008 after The Berzerker split from Earache Records, The Reawakening became the Australian  ...

There is brutal death metal that wants to impress you with its technical ability, and then there is brutal death metal that sounds like somebody locked the studio door, smashed the emergency exit sign, and decided nobody  ...

Somewhere along the way, metal got entirely too concerned with behaving itself. Pick your lane. Learn the uniform. Growl here. Breakdown there. Make sure Spotify knows which goddamn playlist to dump you ...

A low hum emerges from the void—distant, mechanical, almost celestial. It swells into a vast orchestral surge, as if some unseen force is breathing life into the cosmos itself. Flickers of melody spiral like  ...

Heavy metal doesn't need another history lesson—it needs another band willing to crank the Marshall stacks until the wallpaper peels off the walls. That's exactly what Iron Kobra delivers on Eternal Dagger, a record that  ...

Imagine being fed feet-first into an industrial wood chipper while someone keeps screaming, "FASTER!" over the sound of your own bones snapping. That's the energy Mutilatrix brings to Irreversible Aberration. Forget  ...

The first thing that hit me wasn't the cold. It was the hunger. Snowbound Horror doesn't waste time setting the scene—it bursts from the speakers with "Vengeance in Fur" and "Human Spoil," immediately ...

For more than 25 years, Psycroptic has occupied a unique position within technical death metal. While countless bands have chased greater speed or increasingly convoluted song structures, the Tasmanian  ...

A low hum emerges from the void—distant, mechanical, almost celestial. It swells into a vast orchestral surge, as if some unseen force is breathing life into the cosmos itself. Flickers of melody spiral like  ...