Our favorite releases from February!
Jared:
A massive album of grandiose riffs, rousing choruses and infectous songwriting. I’m so glad this album has been getting the love it deserves, because it’s a triumph.
Nathan:
Plague of Rats is some straightforward guitar music. Brainstorm‘s love and passion for heavy metal evidently have not gone away after decades, and my ears are better for it. Give me more of this classic heavy metal sound.
Blistering technical death metal from the past. No more pretention, concern, or need to do something beyond flex remains in Psalmus Mortis, instead all you get is glitzy guitar lines and difficult syncopations.
Gold is a lot, and it’s not something I’m always in the mood for. But when I want relentless pummeling with absolutely no compromise, Scour have made a marvelous place to go.
Time seems to pass differently when listening to Novarupta. Astral Sands is worth returning to again and again, even as it stretches itself out and shrinks the rest of your day. This record is genuine, immense, and distant.
The most interesting releases of the week(s)! Dimmu Borgir - Grand Serpent Rising Grand Serpent…
Vile Desolation, Torchia, Lair of the Minotaur, IATT, Black Cilice
Nequient, Demon Spell, Cnoc an Tursa, Bringers Of Disease, Blood Countess, Warren Schoenbright, Reeking Aura,…
A lot of albums because I took too long to post this
Gutvoid,, No Mas, Wielded Steel, The Bandit Queen Of Sorrows, Kaleidobolt
AmongRuins, Sylosis,, Winter Eternal, Phasma, Midnight Odyssey/Serpent Ascending/Swords of Dis/Oros Kau, Fossilization, ØVI, Cemetery Reign,…
