Album: Garden of Storms Artist: In Mourning Genre: #Metal Sub-Genres: #Progressive #DeathMetal Label: Agonia Non-Airable Tracks: N/A Description: Progressive metal has been around for over 30 years, yet this decade has been sorely lacking in well established soon-to-be classics of the genre. Because of this, there has also been a lack of change in what progressive metal sounds like so most bands this decade all tend to sound like one of Opeth (death), Mastodon (sludge), or Vo

Album: The Battle of Yaldabaoth Artist: Infant Annihilator Genre: #Metal Sub-Genres: #DeathMetal, #Deathcore Label: Self Non-Airable Tracks: N/A Description: Infant Annihilator are back for their third album and it is business as usual for the band. Their first album back in 2012 debuted their sound as technical death metal mixed with hardcore, or rather “deathcore”. While the results were less than stellar, the band continued and their second album The Elysian Grandeval Galè

Album: Long Shadows of Dread (Single) Artist: Nile Genre: #Metal Sub-Genres: #DeathMetal Label: Nuclear Blast Non-Airable Tracks: N/A Description: Nile is a band who have been around since the early 90s and who made a name for themselves as masters of technical and brutal death metal in the early 2000s, especially with their album In Their Darkened Shrines with prog and Egyptian music influences. More recently, the band has been a bit more restrained in what they have been ad

Album: Hexed Artist: Children of Bodom Genre: #Metal Sub-Genres: #Melodic #DeathMetal, #PowerMetal Label: Nuclear Blast Non-Airable Tracks: n/a Release Date: March 8th, 2019 Description: Coming off the recent singles leading up to this album, Hexed has no surprises but delivers on the quality set forth on the lead single “This Road”. In fact, most songs on the album could have been the accompanying B-side and it would have worked well because of the consistency here. Of cours

Album: This Road/ Under Grass and Clover Artist: Children of Bodom Genre: Metal Sub-Genres: Melodic Death Metal Label: Nuclear Blast Non-Airable Tracks: n/a Release Date: February 1st, 2019 Description: Children of Bodom have been a band since 1993 and have always straddled the line between melodic death metal, power metal, and neoclassical ambitions. It should be stated that this is what I’ve read and that this single is my first time listening to the band. The melodies are

Album: Nadir Artist: Black Tongue Genre: #Metal Sub-Genres: #BrutalDeathMetal Label: Black Tongue Non-Airable Tracks: Release Date: October 31st, 2018 Description: Formed of one half of Infant Annihilator and with the addition of three new members, Black Tongue is a death metal band hailing from the UK and Nadir is their second full length album. The brutality continues from 2015’s The Unconquerable Dark and, beyond that, there are some catchy melodies in these songs. “The Ca

Album: Blackwater Park Artist: Opeth Genre: #Metal Sub-Genres: #DeathMetal, #ProgressiveMetal Label: Music for Nations Non-Airable Tracks: NONE Description: This is the fifth effort from Swedish prog metal legends Opeth. Written by Mikael Akerfeldt and produced by Steven Wilson, this is one for the books. Every prog metalhead has heard this album and will agree that it is truly one of the best. Akerfeldt’s magnificent songwriting mixed with the band’s outstanding technical ab