Best New Noise
Broken Hope
June 26, 2017 Justin Norton
Mutilated and Assimilated
Too fast, too furious
dB rating: 8/10
Coltsblood
June 19, 2017 Sean Frasier
Ascending Into Shimmering Darkness
A tiny light prevails in the darkness
dB rating: 8/10
Witch Vomit
May 30, 2017 Sean Frasier
Poisoned Blood
Like a hell-broth boil and bubble
dB rating: 8/10
Blood Feast
May 15, 2017 Dutch Pearce
The Future State of Wicked
Binge on some tasty riffs
dB rating: 8/10
In The Company of Serpents
April 10, 2017 Rod Smith
Ain-Soph Aur
Denver doom/sludge duo wax ecstatic, cowboy-style
dB rating: 8/10
Woe
March 27, 2017 Daniel Lake
Hope Attrition
Answer the unending call (won’t go to voicemail)
dB rating: 8/10
Mord’a’Stigmata
February 27, 2017 Daniel Lake
Hope
Black metal change you can believe in
dB rating: 8/10
Cultes Des Ghoules
February 13, 2017 Dutch Pearce
Coven, or Evil Ways Instead of Love
Masterpiece, or ambition as a force of evil
dB rating: 8/10
King Woman
February 6, 2017 Jeff Treppel
Created in the Image of Suffering
Long live the king
dB rating: 8/10
Deathspell Omega
January 23, 2017 Joseph Schafer
The Synarchy of Molten Bones
Synarchy in the EU
dB rating: 8/10
Bethlehem
January 3, 2017 Chris Dick
Bethlehem
To live is to suffer, to survive is to find meaning
dB rating: 9/10
Zao
December 19, 2016 Shawn Macomber
The Well-Intentioned Virus
Shaking off the slumber
dB rating: 8/10
Worm Ouroboros
December 5, 2016 Daniel Lake
What Graceless Dawn
You had me at “rowan, ash, willow, oak”
dB rating: 8/10
Scorched
November 28, 2016 Sean Frasier
Echoes of Dismemberment
Hack ‘n’ slash flashbacks
dB rating: 8/10
Goes Cube
November 21, 2016 Adrien Begrand
Shadows Swallowed the Flood
One more for the road
dB rating: 8/10
Kingdom
November 7, 2016 Chris Dick
Sepulchral Psalms from the Abyss of Torment
Inverted, they’ve lived their lives
dB rating: 8/10