Very good black metal on this album, and the songs really focus on the black metal side with just a little room for the other elements.   Jan 29, 2024

Dystopia deserves a lot of credit; these are some great songs. The voice-overs & interludes drag down the experience a bit for me, and I'll be skipping those parts from now on.   Jan 29, 2024

So I'm learning crust punk can get really heavy. Rate Your Music is krazy about this album and, yeah, it's really good. It's also sludge, but I love the underground lo fi punk scene feeling that come from this.   Jan 29, 2024

Blue is better than orange - I've learned. The guitars are more beautiful. Also, this is classic Meshuggah, which is always welcome on my stereo.   Jan 29, 2024

I loved Edge of the Earth, and the airy & dreamy post-metal guitar parts on this album are great. Some parts I find kind of mediocre. Unfortunately some phony tough guy vocal parts here & there had me facepalming. This release is a mix of negative & positive for me, but still slightly on the positive side.   Jan 29, 2024

Good music and the production really lets the rich sound through. The vocals are just somewhat good to my ear. This rocks pretty hard but really poppy moments dominate, which might turn off some metalheads.   Jan 29, 2024

I had a djent & math Wednesday, and this was the day's highest point. Also, what the heck happened to all these members since 2011? Anyway, I keep coming back to this album - it has an eclectic mix that works beautifully and feels like a perfect natural match. I even found myself loving the jazz. Everything feels expertly played and evocative. Great work.   Jan 29, 2024

This is so dense, it's a bit of a challenge... in a good way. I'll need to listen many more times to repair the scrambling of my brain. The instrumentation is insane. Respect for this virtuoso band and their possibly untranslatable track titles.   Jan 24, 2024

Good mood, excellent D.I.Y. album cover. Good energy and playing.   Jan 24, 2024

Holy cow! (Get it? Get it?) I like this one even more than Monolith of Inhumanity. My favorite of this deathgrind Tuesday.   Jan 24, 2024

Good deathgrind that feels as underground as you could possibly want.   Jan 24, 2024

I'm growing to love albums that combine war metal and deathgrind. So this is music like Infernal Coil but it achieves a much different effect. I really liked the whole thing. There are some 1st class head-bopping parts. Also, just wondering if the band actually thinks NYC is so dystopian at time of release... maybe it's intended for reminiscing about previous decades... just wondering.   Jan 24, 2024

Super early years of deathgrind, so I started my deathgrind Tuesday with it. This was an excellent choice. I was hoping to like it, but even so the quality of this album surprised me. Maybe it's well known that Terrorizer is a band to come to for great drumming... and now I know it too. I'm not surprised there's a band named after track 11.   Jan 24, 2024

Can someone please give out awards for band names? Anyway, this is raving mad music, and I can tell it's crafted just to drive people in a club into a sweaty frenzy. Also, I like this even more than baby shark. EVEN MORE!!!111oneone   Jan 24, 2024

There are some great polar opposite vibes that this album switches between (meaning there are savage freakouts and there are sentimental parts as well). Sass might be unknown to a lot of us, so I'm glad to recommend this one, even though I'm in it for the cybergrind.   Jan 24, 2024

My favorite discovery from my cybergrind Monday. This gets my blood pumping. A bit of oldschool industrial influence shows up a couple of times, and it just makes it an even richer album. I'm eager to get deeper into Drumcorps's discography soon.   Jan 24, 2024

I really admire this artist's ethos of pay-what-you-want releases. This album is short, sweet, and it scrambles your brain in the best of ways.   Jan 24, 2024

I started my cybergrind Monday in style with a great album by Genghis Tron. I like this one slightly more than Dream Weapon. Board Up the House does make some pronounced shifts between those genres, keeping it interesting yet cohesive with a well-chosen track order. Also, it's mostly very harsh & heavy. Metalheads, give it a try.   Jan 24, 2024

The perfect album cover! Also the skeleton delivers some captivating melodies on that accordion. The songwriting is a great example of being just long enough; they all build up emotion increasingly and deliver very emotional releases by their end, even if the melodic structure might be simple. Then they all end at the perfect moment. Also, just learn Cyrillic OK?   Jan 24, 2024

Squeaky cute vocals followed by death growls? Somehow Violet Cold makes things like this work, and this album is full of interesting highlights & intense emotions. It was also fantastic for a sunny frozen walk today.   Jan 22, 2024

Well, the title makes sense, but the music is so focused on heaviness that son structure and musical ideas feel omitted. OK, I was laughing during Satan's Ice Cream Truck, but as a whole it's just a so-so release.   Jan 22, 2024

Excellent melancholic melodies throughout this powerful record. The vocalist often switches into this defiant tone that adds great variety and helps give the album form and the sense of a plotline. I loved the whole thing.   Jan 22, 2024

Cool new artist. It feels like he's just starting out, which is probably the plain truth. This album starts off so-so but gets better and better. The brooding mood and feeling of destroyed surroundings grow pretty strong.   Jan 22, 2024

I love this band's style. Very good album here, but their 2023 release is in another tier.   Jan 22, 2024

I knew these guys were famous, and now I know what they sound like. Pretty good to my ear. I can tell they have tons of ardent fans. Maybe with a different album I'll be able to hear what they hear.   Jan 22, 2024

I keep playing this short-but-sweet album, and keep liking it more & more, maybe even more than Solar Soul. Nice use of symphonic elements. Also, I didn't know they went industrial this early. Excellent music.   Jan 22, 2024

Overflowing with passion. I do wish the vocals had more variety, but the whole album still slaps. I also recommend seeking out the live bonus track.   Jan 19, 2024

It's half covers and half original material, and there's a mix of quality here, but when it comes to the choruses the songs really shine. The Heart cover (track 9) is the high point. They improved Journey's Separate Ways by eliminating the corniness (though the lyrics still don't make sense). Other highlights for me are tracks 6, 8, and 12.   Jan 19, 2024

There's a lot of good points about this album. However, its a constant barrage of singing parts hurrying in one after another, sometimes edited to overlap to smash them even closer. It gets incessant and destroys the variety that exists in the instrumental composition. This drags it down from a 75 to a 70 for me.   Jan 19, 2024

군터 베르노의 부재가 오히려 곡의 diversity가 증가하는 방향으로 귀결되어 조금 변화된 VP를 느낄수있다. 그 와중에 코어는 전혀 흔들리지 않고 너무나 탄탄한 장르의 전형을 보여주는 뛰어난 앨범이다. 이들 특유의 늘어짐이 가끔은 지루하기도 하지만, 이정도 내공에 이정도 앨범을 찍어내는 이들은 결코 없으므로, 이제 당연히 명예의 전당에 입성해야 한다.   May 10, 2024

1990년도에 대체 무슨 일이 있었길래... rust in peace, painkiller, spiritual healing, cowboys from hell까지... 가슴이 웅장해진다. 나머지 앨범들도 손에 꼽을 정도로 좋아하는 앨범이지만 거의 모든 곡이 취향 저격인 앨범은 이것 밖에 없다.   May 7, 2024

드디어 이들의 약점이었던 절제된 기타솔로가 어느정도 해금되었습니다. 지난 앨범도 만족스러웠는데 역시나 이번에도 실망하지 않게 해주네요. 나이가 들어감에 따라 내가 좋아하는 밴드들도 하나둘씩 늙어가고 멤버들도 세상을 떠나는 걸 보니 매우 슬프네요. 반덴플라스는 계속 음악활동 왕성히 해주었으면 좋겠습니다   May 8, 2024

너무 탄탄하다. 40년 가까이 축적된 음악성이 드러난 앨범...연주, 곡 구성, 녹음 등 나무랄 부분이 없다.   May 10, 2024

밀레니엄 시기의 소위 '팝수성' 가득한 사운드로 청자를 타격한다. 특기할만한 것은 그 타격 지점이 RATM도, Limp Bizkit과 Korn, Slipknot도 내딛지 않았던 공간이라는 사실.   May 10, 2024

천재라 불렸던 자들은 진짜 총기가 불을 뿜는 때가 있다. 이시절의 나가쉬가 그랬다. 전작과 너무 다른 이앨범으로 전작에 버금가는 놀라운 사운드를 만들어냈다. 일렉트로니카와 익스트림을 섞어 부대찌개처럼 절묘한 융합의 새로운 맛을 냈다. 이렇게 세기말을 통과했던 이들은 너무 빨리 미래로 넘어갔다. 25년이 넘어도 여전히 미래적이다.   May 14, 2024

이때의 모습을 그리워하는 건 나뿐이진 않을 듯...   May 16, 2024

시간이 지날수록 앨범의 가치가 살아나는 작품. 코지파웰의 드러밍이 기가막힌 글램롹의 좋은 본보기.   5 days ago

Absolute crushing, heavy as fuck!   May 3, 2024

이름값에 걸맞는 앨범. 특히 유럽 내에서 그들의 인기는 타의 추종을 불허한다. 처음부터 끝까지 단단한 구성과 강력한 연주가 여전하다. 하지만 들은 후 이렇다할 임팩트나 싱글지향적 멜로디 부재의 한끝이 아쉽다.   May 5, 2024

개인적으로 이 앨범을 그렇게 좋아하지 않는다. 이 앨범이야 말로 방향성이 애매했던 프로듀싱과 작곡으로 생각보다 안좋네 라고 생각했던 앨범. 물론 메탈 갓이 주다스의 시그니쳐로 쓰이기는 한데 이 곡도 애매하다. 브레이킹 더 로나 리빙도 맘에 안들고 물론 관중과 싱어롱할때는 좋긴 하다고 생각은 하지만 말이다. 75-80점.6번 8번이 의외로 좋다.   May 8, 2024

very good album by Sepultura. Also, the front cover of Arise is excellent.   May 12, 2024

20세기의 끝을 알리는 멜데스의 걸작이다. 끝내주는 멜로디 하나로 메탈을 좋아하지 않거나 입문하는 사람들에게도 권해볼만한 작품   May 12, 2024

이 앨범 그냥 시대를 관통했습니다. 2030 고독사가 늘어나고 점점 사람들과의 관계가 멀어져 가는 요즘 시대에 살아가는 우리들에게 받아야할 위로를 이 앨범이 하나의 동화처럼 들려주기 때문입니다. 그리고 이 앨범의 모티브가 된 실화는 현 우리나라의 문제점을 그대로 나타나는 게 더 소름돋습니다.   May 12, 2024

Excellent disc. Despite not surpassing its predecessor, it is a sensational album. The Last in Line is one of Dio's greatest classics.   May 14, 2024

미국 밴드를 유럽 스타일의 밴드로 만든 건 샤샤 패스의 힘이 아닐까 한다. 본격적인 이들의 전성기 시작~   May 17, 2024

락/메탈의 시대 흐름에 따른 트렌드의 변화를 가장 적나라하게 보여주는 앨범. 메탈헤드 모두가 수긍할 만한 스타일의 음악은 아니지만 당시 Slayer도 Public Enemy도 좋아했던 나에게는 최고의 앨범 중 하나였다.   May 18, 2024

이럴거면 차라리 슬레이어 새 앨범을 내시는 게...   May 18, 2024

만약 "드림시어터"의 음악으로 본 다면 이 앨범은 DT중 가장 쳐지고 가벼운 음반이 될 것이다, 만약 드림시어터의 "음악"으로 본 다면 이 앨범은 재즈,블루스 등을 잘 버무려 본인들만의 스타일을 접목시켜 만들어낸 이색적인 작품이 될 것이다. 물론 호불호가 당연히 있을것이다. 하지만 이 앨범은 망작이라는 평가를 받기에는 수려한 곡들이 가득가득 들어차있다.   May 18, 2024