SUMAC’s ‘The Healer’ Is One of the Best Metal Albums of 2024
Experimental metal trio SUMAC return with four tracks, a gargantuan runtime, and an experience that feels both frightening and healing on The Healer.
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Alcest Burrow Beautifully Into Their Aesthetic on New Album
With their Les Chants De L’Aurore, the legendary French metal outfit Alcest weave together light and darkness in a characteristically compelling fashion.
Pelican Deluxify ‘The Fire in Our Throats Will Beckon the Thaw’
Pelican’s newly remixed and remastered version of The Fire in Our Throats Will Beckon the Thaw is an excellent update of a post-metal staple.
Urne Turn Pain Into Cathartic Art on ‘A Feast on Sorrow’
Urne have turned suffering into art on A Feast on Sorrow, and the cathartic effect of doing so will no doubt push this exciting band to the next level.
March to Infamy: An Interview with Pelican’s Trevor Shelley de Brauw
Conceived on acoustic guitars in Chicago apartments, Pelican’s breakthrough second LP gets reissued, with Trevor Shelley de Brauw spinning many yarns about its creation.
Gojira Issue a Rallying Cry for Collective Resilience with ‘Fortitude’
French metal quartet Gojira introduce new wrinkles in their sound on Fortitude without abandoning their origins.
MetalMatters: The Best New Heavy Metal Albums of February 2021
In a month of epic returns, Cult of Luna reinvigorate the post-metal flames, The Ruins of Beverast plunge to their blackened sludge depths and Emptiness take a hard post-punk turn.
Jesu’s Justin Broadrick Discusses Parenting, Anxiety, and How Nostalgia Can Be Heavy
On Terminus, the latest album from the project that rose from the ashes of Godflesh, Justin Broadrick once again plumbs the recesses of memory to retrieve his own signature blend of melody and heaviness.
Old Man Gloom Mourns Loss on ‘Seminar VIII: Light of Meaning’ and ‘Seminar IX: Darkness of Being’
A heavy feeling of loss pervades Old Man Gloom's new albums as these songs are a way of coping and documenting grief, as well as commemorating how much Caleb Scofield meant to the band.
Caspian’s Wall-of-Sound Post-Rock Is Handwritten Large with ‘On Circles’
Caspian's On Circles follows in the footsteps of 2015's beatific Dust and Disquiet. It's a big album with its details writ small.
MetalMatters: November 2019 – Winter Is Coming
Filled with everything from extreme doom/death and progressive death to experimental avant-garde jazz induced visions and screamo dreams, November does not disappoint.
Alcest Deliver Exceptional Blackgaze Catharsis on ‘Spiritual Instinct’
Everything that fans could want—and everything that makes blackgaze stand out—is contained within Alcest's Spiritual Instinct.