Metallic Hardcore

Burning Tongue – Prisoner’s Cinema Review

By Dear Hollow on November 1, 2021 in Reviews, Death Metal, 7 comments

“Burning Tongue is a quartet from New York, citing bands like Trap Them, His Hero is Gone, Bathory, and Celtic Frost as influences. Debut full-length Prisoner’s Cinema is their first release in eight years, since EP Blackest. At heart a hardcore punk band, these New Yorkers spew nihilistic sermons with fervor and intensity, dragging in influences of grind and death metal for a foray whose comparison feels a tad like a more hardcore-influenced Nails or Great American Ghost minus the deathcore.” Criminal entertainment.

Collision – The Final Kill Review

By Diabolus in Muzaka on April 13, 2020 in 2020, Dutch Metal, Grind, Hammerheart Records, Hardcore, Reviews, Hardcore, 3 comments

“Normally we don’t review “mini-albums” here, but Collision’s The Final Kill thankfully slipped past the watchful eyes of the promo bin cadaver hounds – I suppose they were kept busy. The reason I decided to run headlong into this is because this is the Dutch band’s final release. I reviewed their oddly named Satanic Surgery a few years ago and didn’t give it a great score – or, honestly, even an okay one. Since we’re all stuck inside anyway, I figured why not shack up with The Final Kill, see the end of a movie that I started watching more than three-quarters through yet somehow found myself invested in.” Plagues make strange bedfellows.

Integrity – Howling, For The Nightmare Shall Consume Review

By Ferrous Beuller on July 25, 2017 in 2017, American Metal, Hardcore, Relapse, Reviews, Hardcore, 29 comments

“If you’ve followed the band’s thirty year career at all, you may think you have an idea of what you’re in for; but Howling demonstrates a disregard for convention as flagrant as my indifference for sentence length.” Run-on with the pack.

Enabler – Fail to Feel Safe Review

By Jean-Luc Ricard on August 14, 2015 in 2015, American Metal, Century Media, Hardcore, Metalcore, Reviews, Hardcore, Metalcore, 29 comments

“Last year Enabler put out one hell of a record in La Fin Absolue du Monde. I didn’t score it, as we don’t do that for our Things You Might Have Missed features, but you can tell how much I loved it by its presence at the top of my Top Ten end-of-year list, above even Voices‘ wonderful London. Looking back I might swap them around, but no matter; it’s a killer album, so when Madam X received the promo for Enabler‘s latest opus she kindly sent it in my direction. I was, naturally, throbbing with anticipation.” Sometimes life can rob your throb.