MetalMatters: The Best New Heavy Metal Albums of March 2021
This month in metal, Grindcore explorers Genghis Tron return, Krallice and Mare Cognitum push black metal to the extremes and sludge pioneers Eyehategod strike again.
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Hear Crown’s Moody, Shape-Shifting “Violence” (premiere)
Crown’s new album, The End of All Things, out 16 April, promises to change the way we hear heavy music. Hear “Violence” now.
Human Impact Are Best When They Just Roar on ‘EP01’
With the one-two sock to the gut of “Transist” and “Contact” on ‘EP01’, Human Impact reaffirm the grime and wonderful nastiness of last year’s debut and drip with joy to revisit the site of the crash.
10 Essential Glam Metal Albums
‘Nöthin’ But a Good Time’ authors list their essential glam metal albums to help new listeners find the era’s best music.
Between the Buried and Me’s Breakthrough ‘Colors’ Still Thrills 13 Years Later
Rather than being Between the Buried and Me's crowning achievement, Colors was just the start of their evolution into one of heavy metal's most adventurous bands.
Divide and Dissolve Release the Demons on ‘Gas Lit’
Divide and Dissolve do a great job of releasing the demons—not the ones of dreams we've just left but the nightmare that begins in the morning living in a world governed by economic racism and the daily grind.
Boris and Merzbow’s ‘2R0I2P0’ Howls Defiance
On 2R0I2P0, Boris and Merzbow show they still have a wealth of ingenuous music-making and mayhem within them.
Pallbearer’s Brett Campbell on Facing the Inevitable
For metal stalwarts Pallbearer, death and inevitability are themes that run through their work, but perhaps no more prominently than on their piercing new record Forgotten Days.
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MetalMatters: The Best New Heavy Metal Albums of January 2021
Wardruna investigate Scandinavian folk dimensions, the Body forge an assault of extravagant noise and distortion, and Portrayal of Guilt eloquently cross over between hardcore and extreme metal.
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MetalMatters: The Best Metal Albums of December 2020
Post-rock legends Jesu return after seven years, chameleonic rockers Boris collaborate once more with noise fiend Merzbow, and Dan Barrett unleashes Black Wing's sophomore record.
The 20 Best Metal Albums of 2020
One of the main vehicles helping us during these crazy times is music. Heavy, experimental, interesting you name it. Experimentalism is thankfully on the rise, as boundaries are still pushed and new realms are explored.