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Setting Fire to the Sky

Urne

Urne - Setting Fire to the Sky 7.8

Album review

Groove Metal
Metal
Progressive rock/metal
Rock
Urne sound ready to reach a bigger room on Setting Fire to the Sky. The riffs still have plenty of force, but the choruses make…

System of a Down

System of a Down

System of a Down - System of a Down 9.1

Album review

Alternative Metal
Metal
Nu Metal
Rock
System of a Down's debut has an unusual sense of humor for such a threatening record. Serj Tankian can sound mocking, theatrical…

Dirt

Alice in Chains

Alice in Chains - Dirt 9.3

Album review

Alternative Metal
Grunge
Metal
Rock
Dirt wastes very little time being polite. The opening scream on Them Bones arrives with a guitar riff that seems to trip over its…

Asymmetry

Karnivool

Karnivool - Asymmetry 8.5

Album review

Alternative Metal
Metal
Progressive rock/metal
Rock
Asymmetry puts friction at the centre of Karnivool's sound. The guitars can seem to pull away from the rhythm beneath them, and a…

From Mars to Sirius

Gojira

Gojira - From Mars to Sirius 9.2

Album review

Death Metal
Groove Metal
Metal
Progressive rock/metal
The repeated guitar figures on From Mars to Sirius are unusually expressive. Gojira use them to suggest weight, movement and…

Songs of Blood and Mire

Spectral Wound

Spectral Wound - Songs of Blood and Mire 8.7

Album review

Black Metal
Metal
Songs of Blood and Mire draws its strength from the pleasure Spectral Wound take in making their riffs move. The music stays sharp…

Periphery II: This Time It's Personal

Periphery

Periphery - Periphery II: This Time It's Personal 8.4

Album review

Metal
Metalcore
Progressive rock/metal
A clean guitar line or a short vocal phrase can be more important than the most complicated riff on Periphery II: This Time It's…

Infinite Illumination

Spirit Adrift

Spirit Adrift - Infinite Illumination 8.6

Album review

Doom Metal
Heavy Metal
Metal
Rock
Infinite Illumination is a heavy goodbye. Spirit Adrift's final album moves back towards the slower doom sound that helped define…

Holy Hell

Architects

Architects - Holy Hell 8.7

Album review

Metal
Metalcore
Grief gives Holy Hell a clear emotional center, but the songs do more than state that grief. Architects turns it into changes of…

We Are Not Alone

Breaking Benjamin

Breaking Benjamin - We Are Not Alone 7.6

Album review

Alternative Metal
Metal
Post-Grunge
Rock
So Cold gives We Are Not Alone an unusually strong centre of gravity. The guitar figure has room to establish its uneasy…

The Mortal Coil

Polaris

Polaris - The Mortal Coil 8.5

Album review

Metal
Metalcore
Progressive rock/metal
The Mortal Coil makes a familiar musical language feel sharply performed. Polaris uses technical guitar figures, clean vocal…

I Feel the Everblack Festering Within Me

Lorna Shore

Lorna Shore - I Feel the Everblack Festering Within Me 8.5

Album review

Deathcore
Metal
Rock
Symphonic Metal
Lorna Shore make a fairly serious commitment to excess on I Feel the Everblack Festering Within Me. The title is long, the songs…

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