Nichalas Edward 63 articles

Raging out from the Netherlands comes the thrash act Distillator, a speed-focused project that took formation back in 2013. They’ve dropped two full-lengths and a...

Grave Dust came across my radar when seeing a post by the frontman of their fellow death metallers Coffin Rot. Hailing from Portland as well,...

I need to give this review a bit of a preface. Warbringer has never really been a thrash act that I jumped at. I’ve always...

Speed metal is a pretty cut-and-dry genre. Fast riffs, fast picking, fast energy, right? So when something comes along and removes itself from the norm...

Coming from the rotting tombs under Westerstede, Germany rises another death metal project that sucked me in upon the first listen of their latest EP...

A little warning in advance, I would go ahead and mark this under the “give it time to grow on you” category. Acolytes Of Moros...

What a fool I am for sleeping on Traveler last year. Their debut album is pretty magnificent, but it would have made the newest effort...

Let me just start by talking about how fucking beautiful this album art is. Upon seeing something like that and discovering that it’s blackened speed...

Slow and menacing riffs with horrendous vocals is something that I can easily get behind. Dropping the frequency to the depth of funeral doom is...

There are very few records that grew on me at the rate that Spectral Voice’s debut album did. I only found out about it within...

I truly have no idea why I’m only stumbling upon Manacle now, two years following their debut record. No Fear To Persevere avoids all of...

At the rate that Haunt puts out albums and EPs, it’s damn-near impossible to keep up with them. Both of their full-lengths Burst Into Flames...

Fitting in with the traditional heavy metal revival bands, Ice War make a very stripped-down brand that only really scrapes from the bottom of the...

Gatecreeper are a band that have a small surge of hype around them, and considering they’re coming to my home-town, I felt it my duty...

Taking formation back in 2015, Black Road rose from Chicago Illinois, and they deliver a brand of stoner/doom that’s surprisingly accessible with a ghostly aura...

I’ve touched on many albums in my time as a reviewer that have made me end with something like “I don’t really like this, but...

The first Municipal Waste full-length is an anomaly that is far removed from what comes to mind when hearing them. I thought it was worth...

Born out of the late ‘80s thrash movement that resided on the techy side came a band known as Defiance. One with a smaller but...

Earlier this year, I covered Necrosexual’s most recent EP, and while I was a bit skeptical about the antics and layout, it proved to be...

RidingEasy Records has been delivering some great stuff this year between Zig-Zags, Bus and my latest discovery Hell Fire. The band has been around for...