Packing all of the technical fun and exploration into a surprisingly concise package, God Forbid continue to explore a progressive sound on Equilibrium while scaling…
God Forbid – Equilibrium (2012)
Overkill – The Electric Age (2012)
At this point in their career, every time Overkill come back with a new album it feels as if they’re giving the metal world a much needed lecture in thrash 101. Much like 2010′s Ironbound, The Electric…
Symphony X – Iconoclast (2011)
Symphony X’s eighth studio opus (and first for Nuclear Blast), 2011′s Iconoclast, sees the New Jersey progressive metal…
Monster Magnet – Mastermind (2010)
By his own admission, Monster Magnet frontman and songwriter Dave Wyndorf works better when faced with a tight deadline, so he once again…
Ill Niño – Dead New World (2010)
Combining the alt-metal intensity of early Deftones and Soulfly with plaintive, post-grunge choruses, Ill Niño deliver another dose of…
The Dillinger Escape Plan – Option Paralysis (2010)
The Dillinger Escape Plan don’t make any major stylistic leaps on this, their fourth album. In some ways, it’s a return to the shouty, spastic..
Mutiny Within – Mutiny Within (2010)
Mutiny Within are a New Jersey-based band combining power metal and thrash into a pleasingly epic blend. They’re not as nonsensical or dependent…
Overkill – Ironbound (2010)
Over the course of 15 albums and a 30-year career, Overkill have proven time and time again that they’re one of the most relentlessly enduring bands in thrash metal…
Danzig – Deth Red Sabaoth (2010)
Danzig’s first album of new material in six years stays true to its creator’s punk roots by returning to the sludgy, borrowed amplifier cacophony of…
My Chemical Romance – Danger Days: The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys (2011)
Swapping gothic pomp for metallic power pop, My Chemical Romance may streamline their excesses on Danger Days: The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys…