The Iowa black metal quartet’s debut explores the mystery of the deep seas with shapeshifting, dynamic songwriting. The opening guitar riff...
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Oozing Wound - We Cater to Cowards Music Album Reviews
The Chicago headbangers’ fifth LP is a confident nod to early grunge. It’s an unusually succinct statement for them, with leaner songwritin...
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Fucked Up - One Day Music Album Reviews
With anthemic hardcore hooks and unabashed lyrics about the power of love, the Toronto band’s latest album radiates fired-up joy. Since the...
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Lykotonon - Promethean Pathology Music Album Reviews
Featuring members of Blood Incantation, the avant-garde black metal band blends industrial and electronic elements into a seamless whole. T...
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Fleshwater - We’re Not Here to Be Loved Music Album Reviews
On the Vein.fm side project’s full-length debut, these hardcore musicians melt down an entire CD binder’s worth of alt-rock classics and sc...
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Dream Unending - Song of Salvation Music Album Reviews
Exploding death metal into atmospheric and experimental new dimensions, the dream-doom duo’s monuments to melancholy have never felt so cru...
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Darkthrone - Astral Fortress Music Album Reviews
The apparent effortlessness (and occasional silliness) of the metal band’s 20th album could make it feel tossed off, but the duo’s enthusia...
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Sumerlands - Dreamkiller Music Album Reviews
Producer Arthur Rizk’s band plays heavy metal in the traditional sense: catchy, operatic choruses and chugging riffs that you only need to ...
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Autopsy - Morbidity Triumphant Music Album Reviews
Energized by the presence of a new bassist, the death metal pioneers still stand apart from the pack. Autopsy were outsiders during the dea...
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Mamaleek - Diner Coffee Music Album Reviews
On an eerie new record, the anonymous collective strays from its metal roots and takes influence from jazz, telling stories of life on Amer...
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Melvins - Houdini Music Album Reviews
Each Sunday, Pitchfork takes an in-depth look at a significant album from the past, and any record not in our archives is eligible. Today, ...
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Holy Fawn - Dimensional Bleed Music Album Reviews
With a slightly subtler approach, the post-metal band relies on familiar tricks, gesturing at widescreen emotions in an endless sea of sine...
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Russian Circles - Gnosis Music Album Reviews
On its dauntless and electrifying eighth album, the post-metal trio recharges its familiar sound. Long before the twinkling fifth track of ...
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Ithaca - They Fear Us Music Album Reviews
The London hardcore band’s second album takes a bolder, brighter approach. Its embrace of self-love and community feels radical and hard-ea...
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Scarcity - Aveilut Music Album Reviews
The debut collaboration from classical composer Brendon Randall-Myers and metal vocalist Doug Moore is an unflinching testimonial on grief ...
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Dio - Holy Diver (Super Deluxe Edition) Music Album Reviews
The zenith of Ronnie James Dio’s formidable career, reissued on what would have been his 80th birthday, is a heavy metal holy grail —a beac...
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Candy - Heaven Is Here Music Album Reviews
The bi-coastal quartet fleshes out classic elements of hardcore and metal with industrial, shoegaze, and noise. Even their love songs feel ...
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Candlemass - Epicus Doomicus Metallicus Music Album Reviews
The Swedish band’s 1986 debut balanced lumbering riffs and operatic drama, spawning the genre of epic doom metal. This reissue pairs its cr...
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Undeath - It’s Time… To Rise From the Grave Music Album Reviews
Zombie armies, mortal standoffs, gravesite robberies: On its ecstatic second album, the Rochester metal band has fun with death. Undeath do...
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Animals as Leaders - Parrhesia Music Album Reviews
On their third album as a trio, the prog metal band refines their interplay and finds a sweet spot between technical precision and human fl...
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