Original article here. I'm fairly confident in calling Of Truth and Sacrifice - the blistering, furious double-album - Heaven Shall Burn's best LP since the original Iconoclast Pt. 1 in 2008. While there were plenty of great tracks on the following Invictus, Veto, and Wanderer over the course of the next decade, nothing the band … Continue reading Top Albums 2020 – #9
Top Albums 2020: #10
I haven't written as many reviews as I'd have liked in the past year, and this best-of list is coming in decidedly late, but here we are, so let's begin (and hopefully this year will be a better one on a number of fronts). It's almost surprising that Impulse Voices is only Plini's sophomore album … Continue reading Top Albums 2020: #10
Review: Tallah – Matriphagy (& Blue Stahli – Quarz)
Obviously I've been keeping tabs on Tallah, given that I'm a rather huge fan of Justin Bonitz other work. Compared to those projects though, this band always interested me a little less in that the collaborative aspect seemed like it would probably mute Bonitz' virtuosic creativities, even if he is working with notable drummer (and … Continue reading Review: Tallah – Matriphagy (& Blue Stahli – Quarz)
Albums I’ve Missed – Summer 2020
It's been a few months since I've sat down to write a review. I believe my last was the new Caligula's Horse project, which was probably the highlight of that month for me. During that time, I listened to a miscellany of albums, including several new ones, including several of those as a subset of … Continue reading Albums I’ve Missed – Summer 2020
Review: Caligula’s Horse – Rise Radiant
I've seen Caligula's Horse being toted as a new band to watch in prog music, and that surprised me. I would have thought that 2017's In Contact or even possibly 2015's Bloom would have established the group quite solidly in the scene. The musicianship has always been stellar - in my opinion, even going back … Continue reading Review: Caligula’s Horse – Rise Radiant
Review: Trivium – What the Dead Men Say
What the Dead Men Say breaks new ground for Trivium, because it's the first time I've liked two of their albums in a row. This record comes hot off the heels of 2017's The Sin and the Sentence, which was to my knowledge generally hailed as a relatively successful comeback album for a band that … Continue reading Review: Trivium – What the Dead Men Say
Review: Heaven Shall Burn – Of Truth and Sacrifice
Let's get right into it, shall we? A little while ago, Saalfeld (Germany)-based melodeath/metalcore outfit Heaven Shall Burn released "Protector," the first single for their new album Of Truth and Sacrifice. It was a pleasant surprise - I hadn't been expecting new music from them, not having made the mental connection that their last album, … Continue reading Review: Heaven Shall Burn – Of Truth and Sacrifice
Review: Suicide Silence – Become the Hunter
This Valentine's Day was a momentous one, not because it saw the release of the live-action Sonic the Hedgehog movie, but because legendary deathcore outfit Suicide Silence finally broke their own silence, putting out the followup to 2017's extremely controversial self-titled project. Become the Hunter is the name of the new record, and it comes … Continue reading Review: Suicide Silence – Become the Hunter
Top Albums 2019: #1
Here we are. I didn't review this when it came out, but I was always relatively certain that I'd get around to talking about it here eventually on the top ten list, because it was always unequivocally that good. Mudoo Ra is the fourth album of a planned five in the series From Windfall to … Continue reading Top Albums 2019: #1
Top Albums 2019: Runners Up
There are quite I few to discuss here. Let's get into it. They'll be in alphabetical order, rather than ranked in terms of my enjoyment (that'd be a hell of a lot of work). Alaskan Tapes - Views From Sixteen Stories The starkness of the album art is telling. Views From Sixteen Stories is the … Continue reading Top Albums 2019: Runners Up
Sonic Thorns 