Album Review: Omnivide – A Tale of Fire

"Tearing my own flesh down to the bone, such pain to erase all I’ve ever known." Omnivide - A Tale of FireMarch 22nd, 2024Progressive / Technical / Symphonic Death MetalIndependently ReleasedMoncton, New Brunswick, Canada Moncton is perhaps an unlikely place to expect to hear the brand of music represented in the mainstream by such bands …

Akhenaten’s Worst Albums of 2023

Just as every year must end with a recollection of the best music that emerged throughout the course of it, highlighting the cream that always rises to the top, so to must we highlight the absolute dregs that sink to the bottom of the barrel like sour milk at the bottom of a dumpster. Here …

Album Review: Kim Dracula – A Gradual Decline in Morale

"I want to be the one who hurts you. I want to be the one that cares." Kim Dracula - A Gradual Decline in MoraleJuly 14th, 2023Trap Metal / Alternative Metal / Avant Garde MetalColumbia RecordsHobart, Tasmania, Australia I'm going to be honest. The first time I heard Kim Dracula I thought their music was …

Album Review: Riverside – ID.Entity

"Maybe you're a collection of everything I want, and you've been customized for my desires." Riverside - ID.EntityJanuary 20th, 2023Progressive RockInsideOut Music / Mystic ProductionWarsaw, Poland Riverside are one of those bands that I was always tangentially aware of back in my days of heavy prog music consumption, when I was a huge fan of …

Album Review: Avenged Sevenfold – Life is But a Dream…

Avenged Sevenfold - Life is But a Dream...June 2nd, 2023Avant-Garde Metal / Hard RockWarner Records Inc.Huntington Beach, California, USA I've had a rough history with Avenged Sevenfold. When I first was exposed to the band I thought they were shit because it seemed like no matter where I went I could not escape people talking …

Album Review: The Callous Daoboys – Celebrity Therapist

"Cause I walk into the water buzzing with electrolytes and sacrilege." The Callous Daoboys - Celebrity TherapistSeptember 2nd, 2022MathcoreMNRK Music GroupAtlanta, Georgia, USA I was first introduced to The Callous Daoboys several years ago by my friend Corey who recommended their record Die on Mars to me. I ultimately ended up never checking them out, …

Album Review: Dendron – To Save Ourselves

“By the light of the moon you had drawn me out, like the siren sound, just like the siren sound.” Dendron – To Save OurselvesJanuary 28th, 2022Progressive Metal / DjentIndependently ReleasedSt. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada Dendron first splashed onto the Newfoundland heavy music scene in 2016 with the release of their first EP, Glass Spire. I gave …

Album Review: Ashbreather – Hivemind

"Overcome with mundanity, they stoke and feed their vanity." Ashbreather - HivemindNovember 11th, 2022Progressive Sludge / Death MetalIndependently ReleasedMontreal, Quebec, Canada Hivemind is the second full length studio album from Montreal-based progressive metal outfit Ashbreather, and it's also the first full work of theirs that I've really invested a lot of time into. While I …

Album Review: Charlie Griffiths – Tiktaalika

Charlie Griffiths - TiktaalikaJune 17th, 2022Progressive MetalInsideOut MusicLondon, England, UK In 2020 I decided to check out the band Haken for the first time. I had heard of them numerous times both online and from friends of mine in real life who are super into progressive metal, and I was pleased with what I heard. …

Album Review: Rivers of Nihil – The Work

"Oh, no there's no coming back from this, I cease to exist because I'm dreaming black clockwork again". Rivers of Nihil - The WorkSeptember 24th, 2021Progressive Death MetalMetal Blade RecordsReading, Pennsylvania, USA I wasn’t too familiar with Rivers of Nihil before the release of their last record, 2018’s Where Owls Know My Name, which I …