Album Review: Industrial Puke – Alive To No Avail (Suicide Records)
Swedish crust/death metal juggernaut Industrial Puke is set to unleash their ferocious second album, ‘Alive to No Avail’, on March 28th, 2025, via Suicide Records.
Album Reviews 2025
Album Review: Alien Weaponry – Te Rā (Napalm Records)
New Zealand modern groove metal trio Alien Weaponry are back. Expanding on their hallmark messages of cultural, societal and environmental resilience while delivering their most massive-sounding, focused musical output ever. It’s ‘Te Rā’, and it is out on March 28, 2025 via Napalm Records.
Album Review: Underoath – The Place After This One (MNRK Heavy)
Underoath, the iconic metal band, renowned for their unrelenting integrity and authenticity, are back with their brand-new album, ‘The Place After This One’. It will be released on March 28th, 2025, via MNRK Heavy.
Album Review: Judicator – Concord (Self Released)
American power metallers Judicator will release their highly anticipated new (and seventh) album, ‘Concord’ on March 28th, 2025.
Album Review: Forlorn – Aether (Church Road Records)
On their debut album, ‘Aether’, the innovate ‘folk horror’ band, Forlorn pay their respects to the major elements, acting as part of a progressing metal pagan ritual. Listeners can witness, and be part of the experience, on March 28th, 2025, via Church Road Records.
Album Review: Ogives Big Band – Boisterous Live (& Other Animals) (Stolen Body Records)
Ogives Big Band, the riff powerhouse from Bristol, UK, will release their first ever live album ‘Boisterous Live (& Other Animals)’ on March 25th, 2025, via Stolen Body Records.
Album Review: Fleshspoil – The Beginning of the End (Self Released)
A new force in blackened death metal has emerged to lay waste to 2025! Fleshspoil, featuring veteran players from Arsis, The Final Sleep, and Illucinus, will release their full-length debut album, ‘The Beginning of the End’, on March 28th, 2025.
Album Review: Sonus Mortis – Synapse The Hivemind (Self Released)
As prolific as ever, symphonic death and doom metal solo project, Sonus Mortis (aka multi-instrumentalist Kevin Byrne), is back. Following the release of ‘Of Red Barren Earth’ in 2023, the 8th album, ‘Synapse the Hivemind’ will be released on March 27th, 2025.