Upon A Burning Body – Straight From The Barrio
4.4 / 5 ( 13 votes ) Track Listing: ‘Til The Break Of Dawn Already Broken You Don’t Own Me Media Blackout B.M.F. Straight From The Barrio (210) Leave The Pain Behind Walk Alone Again Fake Plastic Smile D.T.A. (Don’t Trust Anyone) The Outcast My Distorted Reflection Evolving musically is a key element […]
Allegaeon – Proponent For Sentience
4.5 / 5 ( 2 votes ) Allegaeon’s Proponent for Sentience is nothing short of absolutely crushing and certainly keeping form with their own unique brand of “Science-Core,” utilizing the now popular math metal style and molding it with the undervalued black/melodic-death/thrash style that is making bands such as Allegaeon, Skeletonwitch, Black Fast and […]
Bad Omens – Bad Omens
4.9 / 5 ( 20 votes ) Track Listing Glass Houses Exit Wounds The Worst In Me FERAL Enough, Enough Now Malice Hedonist Broken Youth Crawl The Letdown Reprise (The Sound Of The End) The Fountain After months of relentless hype and teasing with single releases the time has finally come. The self-titled […]
Whitechapel – Mark Of The Blade
3.2 / 5 ( 3 votes ) Tracklist: The Void Mark of the Blade Elitist Ones Bring Me Home Tremors A Killing Industry Tormented Brotherhood Dwell in the Shadows Venomous Decennium Whitechapel are back with their 6th dose of brutal heavy ass kicking with Mark of the Blade. And yes as you’ve heard by […]
Pierce The Veil – Misadventures
4.4 / 5 ( 5 votes ) Track Listing: Dive In Texas Is Forever The Divine Zero Floral & Fading Phantom Power and Ludicrous Speed Circles Today I Saw the Whole World Gold Medal Ribbon Bedless Sambuka Song For Isabelle Pierce the Veil’s 4th album has been something talked about in hush and worried […]
Hatebreed – The Concrete Confessional
4 / 5 ( 6 votes ) Track listing A.D. Looking Down The Barrel Of Today Seven Enemies In The Walls From The Grace We’ve Fallen Us Against Us Something’s Off Remember When Slaughtered In Their Dream The Apex Within Walking The Knife Dissonance Serve Your Masters There is the old saying “If it […]
Avatar – Feathers & Flesh
4.9 / 5 ( 17 votes ) Track Listing: Regret House of Eternal Hunt The Eagle Has Landed New Land Tooth, Beak & Claw For The Swarm Fiddler’s Farewell One More Hill Black Waters Night Never Ending Pray The Sun Away When The Snow Lies Red Raven White Sky Burial Ladies & gentlemen, boys […]
Misamore – Monolith
4.5 / 5 ( 15 votes ) Track Listing Blister Choose Cassiopeia Calligraphy Dark Room Long Way Through Bloody Mary Monolith Circa Nema Nine Eyes Emerging out of the Sacramento, CA local music scene is hard rocking trio Misamore, with their new full length album Monolith. Building off their strong debut album, Horizon, band members […]
Darkness Divided – Darkness Divided
4.4 / 5 ( 6 votes ) Track listing: The Point Of No Return Back Breaker A Life That Binds Wake Of The End Misery Deceiver From Dust To Stone The Answer Deliverance Mirror Of Death The End Of It All As the saying goes “Everything is bigger in Texas”. San Antonio’s Darkness Divided […]
Devildriver – Trust No One
4.9 / 5 ( 7 votes ) Track Listing: Testimony Of Truth Bad Deeds My Night Sky This Deception Above It All Daybreak Trust No One Feeling Ungodly Retribution For What Its Worth The clouds are not just over California this time around, as the storm called Devildriver is on the forecast. Bringing their 7th album […]
Lines In The Sky – Parallel Travel
3.5 / 5 ( 1 vote ) Before I ever even knew the music of Rush, I wasn’t a fan. It was no fault of their own. I place the blame on a college roommate that spent our entire freshman year learning how to play guitar to “Tom Sawyer.” What started as sloppy chord work […]
The Word Alive – Dark Matter
4.4 / 5 ( 7 votes ) Track Listing: Dreamer Trapped Face to Face Sellout Insane Made This Way Suffocating Piece of Me Branded Grunge Dark Matter Oxy Once I heard the single, “Trapped”, I was hooked, and like many of you, eagerly awaiting the release of “Dark Matter”, the latest album by The Word […]
Movements – Outgrown Things
4.2 / 5 ( 5 votes ) Track Listing Kept Nineteen Worst Wishes Hatchet Vacant Homes Losing Fight Sounding more like Seattle, but coming from Southern California, the 4-piece band Movements have marked their place with their debut EP Outgrown Things. Poignant lyrics, that come across more as spoken word poetry at times, paired with […]
Tonight Alive – Limitless
3.2 / 5 ( 3 votes ) Circle Pit Review Reviewers: Mark & Tiffanee Mark & Tiffanee discuss the latest album from Tonight Alive, Limitless, and take it into a circlepit review. Listen below to see their thoughts : Track Listing: To Be Free Oxygen Human Interaction Drive How Does It Feel Waves Everywhere […]
Colours – Ivory
3.7 / 5 ( 2 votes ) At the height of the compact disc era, the first rule of any debut album was to feature compelling cover art. This didn’t mean just slapping some eye-catching image on the front, but rather visually representing the music inside. I often used this rule as my sole criteria […]
Michale Graves – When Worlds Collide
4.2 / 5 ( 3 votes ) Track Listing: Bedlam Diabolical Dying on Sunday Morning I Walk with a Zombie Old Dark House Robot Monster The Beginning of the End The Face Behind the Mask Things to Come 3 Days ‘Til Dawn When Worlds Collide He’s wandered and drifted many miles, even losing a […]
The White Noise – Aren’t You Glad?
4.4 / 5 ( 8 votes ) Track Listing: The Doctor Will See You Now Bloom Picture Day Red Eye Lids Brainwashed Cosmopolitician The first time I heard The White Noise was through a friend, and I instantly fell in love after hearing just their debut song. There was something about the mixture […]
After The Burial – Dig Deep
4.3 / 5 ( 3 votes ) Track Listing: Collapse Lost in the Static Mire Deluge Laurentian Ghosts Heavy Lies the Ground Catacombs The Endless March Sway of the Break Often it is said that in the wake of chaos and tragedy that one can become stronger and better. This is the test that […]
Fleshgod Apocalypse – King
4.2 / 5 ( 4 votes ) Track Listing: Marche Royale In Aeternum Healing Through War The Fool Cold as Perfection Mitra Paramour (Die Leidenschaft Bringt Leiden) And The Vulture Beholds Gravity A Million Deaths Syphilis King I was first introduced to Italian symphonic death metallers Fleshgod Apocalypse about 5 years ago when they came […]
Megadeth – Dystopia
4 / 5 ( 2 votes ) I’m the thrash guy here at Loud & Heavy, I’m the guy that’s supposed to tell you if I love or hate a record. Well if somebody were to have told me a year ago that the new Megadeth album would make me believe that Dave Mustaine has […]