Temple of Shadows might be sensory overload, but power metal fans everywhere will still find enough in it to love. Angra are one of the best in the genre.
Like labelmates Kill Your Idols, 7 Seconds are on a crusade to rid hardcore of the commercialized bullshit that’s piled on the genre these past few years.
It ruptures the spleen to try and figure out just how something so kitschy, trite, regurgitated, unimaginative, calculatedly “overprecious” can be eaten up.
For over a decade now, Lagwagon have penned the soundtracks of our lives. And having seen the band countless times, not much comes close to a Lagwagon show.
Ex-Godflesh mastermind Justin Broadrick’s first “real” outfit since the demise of the Giant G, Jesu promises to fuse ethereal ambience with crushing doom noise.
This generation’s Godflesh have returned. Equally epic and bombastic but with a different focus this time around: Melodies instead of sheer crushing riffage.