Life Metal by Sunn O))) Back for more, eh? Well, it’s not getting any lighter. We’re going to keep plugging away at my top 50 metal albums of 2019. I pride myself on listening to all kinds of decadent heaviness, so expect a broad spectrum of punishment. If this…

With an absolute lunatic on the mic and two dedicated noisemakers complementing on guitar and drums, Endon is a band whose extremity goes without saying. Three LPs, several EPs and a collaborative album with Boris speak for themselves. The Japanese quintet’s newest album foreshadows an unsettling experience just with its title. Noise…

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 of new singles, but who has time to sort through all that? RIFF does! We pooled our resources to find some of…