Though Ville Valo has often been seen as the sole proprietor of love metal as a genre, primarily because very few can match his vampiric romanticism and poetry, Atlas arises as a formidable and remarkable successor. Infusing love metal with arcane echoes and bestial screams, they delivers a sensually brutal epic in their new record, Sunder (Odyssey Music). Continue reading
Our Mirage is reviving the roots of Metalcore, reanimating a nostalgic 2000s sound with a 2020s polish. On their fourth album, Fractured Minds (Arising Empire Records), one would hope a band would have grown past the overly generic, survivalist mantra and woe-is-me relationship songs. Continue reading
Fresh onto the Hardcore/Metalcore scene in 2021 were Feed The Beast, with their debut single with “Flowtick.” Since then, the band have been grinding hard releasing a slew of singles, EPs, and an album already. Now, with their second full-length album in tow, Mercy (Futureless Records). The band are once again here to show what they’ve got to offer the world of metal and hardcore. Continue reading