Weekly Review Roundup: Monday 8th September 2025 – Friday 12th September 2025
From potent symphonic deathcore to emotional post rock, to memorable post hardcore, intense progressive rock, lively alternative metal, and anthemic rock and roll. We’ve reviewed some great releases this week, and here’s our weekly reminder of what has been covered.
Lorna Shore – I Feel The Everblack Festering Within Me (Century Media)
Lorna Shore fans are going to eat this up, it’s going to earn them even more fans, and the haters are going to hate no matter what. The world’s biggest deathcore band? If they’re not already, they will be soon enough.
Check out the full review here.
LASTELLE – Exist – vol ii (YOU RANG? RECORDS)
The new wave of post hardcore is well and truly here and it’s all thanks to the rise of bands like LASTELLE. A band that embodies the traditional passion and power of the genre, but infuse even more alternative intensity, emotional highs, and dramatic lows into things. Which might sound par for the course with post hardcore, but LASTELLE’s anthemic capabilities and captivating charm really makes them a different beast.
Check out the full review here.
Between the Buried and Me – The Blue Nowhere (InsideOutMusic)
The Blue Nowhere is what happens when a band hits a creative high, lets their imagination run wild, and has the talent to showcase their eccentricities in appealing and addictive fashion. We all know Between the Buried and Me are a great band, as a litany of previous releases have proven, but we really can say that we never know what we’re going to get with the next. Indescribable? To some degree especially as they are one of the most genre bending and blurring bands out there and The Blue Nowhere embodies this, and so much more, for over 70 minutes.
Check out the full review here.
RinRin – The Nut House (Year of the Rat Records)
I dig RinRin and what the very talented Qarin Hipe is creating under the name. Sure, modern alternative metal listeners will find themselves in familiar territory, but that doesn’t mean the multi-instrumentalist creative isn’t kicking a ton of ass with an album full of infectious, powerful, and exciting EDM-infused heavyweight efforts.
Check out the full review here.
At War with the Sun – Remembrance (Self Released)
At War with the Sun cleverly, and delicately, add psychedelic elements, alongside relentless doominess, captivating drone, and memorable melody. It’s one hell of a listening experience, and unsurprisingly, gives us two tracks that can simply be called huge.
Check out the full review here.
Blacklist Union – Slay the Dragon (BLU Records)
Reenergised and refocused, Blacklist Union hit a career high with their brand-new album, ‘Slay the Dragon’, a twelve-track hard rock banger filled with foot-tapping and finger-snapping rock potency. Be warned, you’re going to have a lot of these tracks stuck in your head for hours afterwards.
Check out the full review here.
Beth Blade & The Beautiful Disasters – Vintage Rebel x Trauma Bond (Self Released)
A very cool idea, delivered with impact and composure, given authenticity by a band on the form of their lives, and with the kind of widespread appeal that turns the heads of just about everyone who hears it. It’s Vintage Rebel x Trauma Bond, and it’s a mighty fine Beth Blade & The Beautiful Disasters’ release.
Check out the full review here.
Barrens – Corpse Lights (Pelagic Records)
A highly anticipated release, Corpse Lights is everything we could have dreamed of, and more. Barrens delivering an emphatic and enigmatic instrumental listen that transforms a familiar post soundscape into something undeniably unique. Through the power of experimentation, they balance an array of dynamic ideas, offering up light, darkness, beauty, intensity, and so much more.
Check out the full review here.
