After helping pioneer death-doom and gothic metal alongside Anathema and Paradise Lost during the ’90s, England’s My Dying Bride has remained much more loyal to its seminal approach. The band’s compelling consistency has guided its 30-year career of crushing melancholy. The journey almost ended over the past few years,…

Clockwise from top left: Riz La Vie, Jaga Jazzist, Marem Ladson, Daniel Avery and Alessandro Cortini, Shred Kelly, Adam Brookes of Dangermaker. Every week, there’s a plethora of new music at our fingertips. Artists on platforms like Spotify and Bandcamp are plentiful, and the radio offers a steady deluge…

A title like American Standard doesn’t hide what James Taylor has in mind this time around. Twenty albums into a storied career, it’s hard to think of a way he could further prove himself. With this album of standards, he acknowledges his career stage. Instead of attempting to appeal to new demographics,…

Lingua Ignota, The Body and Full of Hell—three of extreme music’s most exciting projects, are joined at the hip. Over the past decade, The Body has collaborated with Full of Hell twice, Kristin Hayter has sung on the latest The Body and Full of Hell albums, and Hayter’s Caligula featured…

Whether it’s Randy Blythe in Lamb of God or Jesse Leach in Killswitch Engage, a lot of metalcore bands boil down to a metal act fronted by a hardcore vocalist. For Great American Ghost, vocalist Ethan Harrison has kept the technical trajectory of the band’s 2015 debut, Everyone Leaves, and 2017’s…

Breaking deathcore into its melo-death beginnings (2000s), its brutalization (late 2000s and early 2010s) and its recent nu-metal crossover reveals Suicide Silence at the forefront of the latter two eras. The Riverside band’s initial run brought the genre away from At The Gates and toward Cannibal Corpse, and had…

Having a reputation as “the Deftones of metalcore” is hardly a bad thing, but there’s far more to U.K. band Loathe. These guys run the emotional gamut, from sensual melodies to enveloping soundscapes, chaotic riffage and ferocious growls. It opens a lot of opportunities for conceptual growth, which I…

When a hardcore band claims influence from System of a Down and Slipknot, it’s hard not to fear for the worst. But the nu-metalcore hybrid of Orthodox works, which explains the band’s fast growth in the underground scene. For its latest LP, the Nashville quartet focuses on sharpening its edges and…

Once Sepultura lost brothers Max and Igor Cavalera, the band needed to justify its existence. The ambitious arrangements and energy of 2017’s Machine Messiah accomplished just that. Even with the brothers gone, the more recent batch of Sepultura records does a lot more than capitalize on the most recognizable name in Brazilian…

It’s a bit concerning that people still argue against electronic artists being “real musicians” considering the likes of DJ Shadow, Flying Lotus and of course Squarepusher. Tom Jenkinson’s 16 albums run the gamut of drum and bass music, intelligent dance music (IDM) and jazz fusion, but the latter influence…