(((O))) Category: Reviews

Blind Eye – Mistrust Your Nation

A no messing blast of hardcore rippers that scarcely pauses to catch its breath.

Jeffrey Alexander + The Heavy Lidders – Liquid Donnon

It all sounds like it is going to fall apart any second, but never does, creating music that you can easily label as a truly beautiful mess.

Klimt 1918 – Àmor

This is bedroom music, headphones on under a blanket music, and it doesn’t need you to fall for it immediately because you eventually will anyway. Longing gets its way.

Ayreon – 30th Anniversary: An Amazing Flight Through Time

An Amazing Flight Through Time isn’t just a concert film. It’s a historic event, an odyssey through the surreal, the nightmarish, and the beautiful worlds Arjen Lucassen has gifted us. Holding this live recording in your hands is holding thirty years of imagination, innovation, and heart.

Dennis Atlas – Principle

Listening to Principle feels like stepping straight into the mid‑to‑late ’70s, right at the height of the arena rock era.

Mirror Revelations – Ígnea

The trio shows full respect for all the musical references and inspirations they cite here, but really ignite some serious fire, as was obviously their intention.

Built for the Future – 2084 Empire

This album demands repeat listens — not because it’s difficult, but because it’s alive, pulsing with detail, danger, and vision. What a ride it is.

Urzah – A Tranquil Void

Urzah balance slow-burning tension with eruptions of violent force, letting cavernous sludge riffs grind against ritualistic percussion.

Mono – Snowdrop

Mono’s first recording since the sad passing of Steve Albini is a cathartic and magical release.

Jo Berger Myhre – Penta

Penta is not an easy listen. But Jo Berger Myhre continues to explore composition with evocative structure and fearless imagination, leaving us wondering where he—and we—will go next, and what the next chapter will bring in the years ahead.

Sleepbomb – Songs in The Key of Conan

Like Conan but wish it had a soundtrack based on doom and psych tinged instrumental post-metal? Well Sleepbomb have just the thing for you.

Deaf Star – Sunset Overdrive

Next time music critics try to build up and then discard a certain sub-genre, this album might show them that things don’t always work the way they think they should, and that it turns out to be the right way anyway.

Voivod – Symphonique

Symphonique isn’t just a live album. It’s a full‑blown mental IMAX experience, a concert unfolding inside your skull.

Fucked Up – Year of the Monkey

Year of the Monkey is simply stunning in terms of concept, execution and invention. Incredible.

Elder – Through Zero

This is an album built for deep listening, an odyssey of sound that will be discussed for months and years to come.

A.A. Williams – Solstice

This album would have been better served up as two EPs as trying to get through it in one sitting is something of a chore. Sadly disappointing.

David Helpling & Scott Reich – Through the Thought Horizon

Thought Horizon unfolds as a meditative groove.

Converge – Hum Of Hurt

Hum Of Hurt is another brilliant Converge album and shows yet another side of the band once again.

Boards of Canada – Inferno

Inferno is a worthy addition to Boards of Canada’s wondrous back catalogue.

Stainless – Lady of Lust & Steel

This is Stainless’ moment. Their time. One of the best hard‑rock debuts I’ve heard this year. Give them a thunderous round of applause. They’ve delivered a monster of an album to kick off the summer with a bang.

Anthony Garone – OK, But Why?

Garone isn’t backing down without a fight. OK, But Why? is here to stay, adding new conversations, new wonders, and new exotic perspectives. And thankfully, it keeps you guessing until the very end.

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