Metal is not for white supremacy. Metal is not for the ruling class. Metal is not for the rich. Metal is a protest. Metal is a riot. Metal is resistance. Metal is a fuck you to every cop and every capitalist and every racist. Metal is revolt.

Josh Fields reflects on 2025 wherein his bandmates, best friends, old friends, probably some enemies, family, friends of friends and more all came out of the woodwork to support him, and reinforce how important the conduit of music is.

Rounding up new releases from Haxprocess, Black Magnet, Tyler, the Creator, Psycho-Frame, Arkhaaik, Grayceon, Cryptodira, Gwar, and new old offerings from Black Sabbath (from when they were still called Earth).

One part revival, one part modern ingenuity, all parts unadulterated, disgusting carnage. Psycho-Frame rewrites the script for deathcore with their debut album Salvation Laughs In The Face Of A Grieving Mother.

Jazzy metalcore meets crushing atmospheres in this first look at the new politically-charged album from UK outfit Wolves.

Something else happened to Josh this year that also ties in rather significantly to the nostalgia he lamented previously, but in a much more positive manner—which is that he's started playing guitar again.

Our review of 2025 in music so far continues! Labels often declare a distaste for mediocrity in favor of talent and innovation, but in 2025, The Ghost is Clear seems like one of the few actually putting their money where their mouths are.

Continuing our "middle of the year" content, Josh has some musings for you on the passage of time, nostalgia, growing older, and trends.

It's time to get snarky, with new releases from Laura Jane Grace, Abigail Williams, Phantom Spell, Ba’al, Dephosphorus, Sorceröt, Margarita Witch Cult, Blind Equation and all the best specifically Christian rock and metal Roxx Records has to offer!.

The calendar reads July and so it is time to recap the year so far. It is decreed. The ancient laws demand it. We're kicking off our summary of the year with a big shopping list of albums we loved in the first half of the year. Enjoy!.

Eden dives deep into themes of nostalgia, memory, and nature in his review of Phantom Spell's excellent Heather & Hearth!.

British upstarts Ba’al manage to rise above the throngs of mediocrity on their sophomore album The Fine Line Between Heaven and Here, remaining firmly rooted in post-black, but diverging into doom-metal, post-metal and even some death-adjacent riffing.

Driven by circling, kinetic riffs that evoke a swarm of hornets as much as they do a whizzing hail of bullets or a hummingbird bred for war, Mawiza have found their identity and are eager to unleash it on the unaware public.

If you use AI generated images for your album artwork, we don't like you. Simple as. Rounding up new releases from Eternal Idol, Born of Osiris, Chat Pile, Impureza, Sheev, Angerot, and Plume Girl.

Listening to Hell is the audio equivalent of being plagued by slowly unfolding demonic visions during a bad acid trip that is just as baleful as it is psychedelic.

I was excited to hear how everything the record comprises would translate to live performance, and Lástima did not disappoint.

Sowmya Somanath creates a transportive and meditative soundscape that combines Hindustani vocalizations, synths, guitar, and field recordings to create an ethereal sound that rewards both the passive and active listener.

"Impureza's Alcázares brings to mind the experience of hiking up a hairpin-bend path in the Spanish Pyrenees, each surprising turn offering a new vista of dangerous beauty that challenges the previous one still burned on your retinas.".

A slower Friday but them releases are still out there so we're still out here roudin' them up. Let's go with Gaupa, Akouphenom, Erebor, The Lucidia Project, and more!.

This album pierces even through this old soul's jaded and callous approach to the "established" post-rock sound and sets my heart a-flutter. Even if you think you're "over" this kind of music, give this one a try. It's cut from a different cloth.

While the major popular players in the genre have mainly used June for their new releases, the death metal underground thrived. We’ve documented a few here for your enjoyment, with Weeping Sores, For the Pyres, Lust Hag, and more!.