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Dystopia A.D. – Doomsday Psalm [Things You Might Have Missed 2022]
Boy, did we miss this one. I reviewed Dystopia A.D.’s Rise of the Merciless back in 2020 and very nearly awarded the band a 4.0. I chanced upon that review doomscrolling through my writing history and...
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AMG’s Unsigned Band Rodeö: Conspiracy of Zero – Ahthos Arouris
“AMG’s Unsigned Band Rodeö” is a time-honored tradition to showcase the most underground of the underground—the unsigned and unpromoted. This collective review treatment continues to exist to unite...
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Entheos – Time Will Take Us All Review
Animosity—a lesser-known early deathcore act—ripped wild through riff and breakdown alike, a different breed to the normally bass drop and breakdown-filled style. The California troupe played instead a...
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Enslaved – Heimdal Review
Welp, Dr. AMG and Doc Grier are off to a hectic year. With a very understandable back-and-forth of “I can take it,” “You can take it,” and finally, “It won’t be on time,” here I am feeding the plebs a...
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Redemption – I Am the Storm Review
Call me olde and jaded, but I tend to be suspicious of bands that bear the “supergroup” imprimatur. Cautious though I may be, I’ve been a fan of Redemption since their launch way back in 2003. The...
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Lunar – The Illusionist Review
I hold concept albums dearly as a style that occupies many of my most treasured proggy excursions. Cautiously, though, many a lesser outing bloat the barrel of this contentious niche. Confidently...
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Ne Obliviscaris – Exul Review
Ne Obliviscaris hardly require introduction in these parts. The last decade established a pattern of bi- or tri-annual releases, opening with 2012’s inventive Portal of I and closing with 2017’s...
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Sermon – Of Golden Verse Review
UK’s mysterious Sermon burst from out of nowhere on phenomenal 2019 debut album, Birth of the Marvellous. The debut was an incredibly accomplished, polished jewel of intense and emotive progressive...
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Black Sea of Trees – The Spiritual Beast Review
Our promo sump feels piled these days, a good thing! And, it may be my attention to these distinctions that has grown over the year that I’ve now been with AMG, or it might just be the world we live...
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Medevil – Mirror in the Darkness Review
Sometimes you stumble upon a band entirely unknown to you (and I suspect, to everyone else) and you hear a lot of good things, yet the overall listening experience falls well short of good. Canadian...
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Black Oak – Egolution Review
Egolution was a tough nut to crack. I picked up the debut from Sweden’s Black Oak based on the promo’s bold namedrops of Cult of Luna, ISIS, and Palms. When I started listening, I expected standard...
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Vvon Dogma I – The Kvlt of Glitch Review
The Kvlt of Glitch pushes a fusion of EDM-pulsing industrial metal colliding with wantonly djent and noodling progressive metal. The more than qualified ChaotH (Humanoid), formerly of the departed...
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Vintersea – Woven into Ashes Review
In the past 20 years that bands like Wolves in the Throne Room and Agalloch have been pioneering a shade of the American black metal sound, a few interesting things have happened: black metal got cool1...
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The Willowtip Files: Ion Dissonance – Breathing is Irrelevant
Pennsylvanian-based independent label Willowtip Records was established by Jason Tipton in the late ’90s. From humble beginnings, the label has stood the test of time, becoming one of the most...
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Sunbeam Overdrive – Diama Review
Sunbeam Overdrive as a name conjures the gaudy—a would-be leisure suit-wearing hotshot cruising down the coastal highway, top-down, sunglasses on, radio cranked. But the 90’s California kid in me...
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Servers – The Vertical Plane Review
It’s been quite a while since I last reviewed anyone hailing from even close to my neck of the woods but, this week, I present for your perusal Servers. Hailing from Barnsley in South Yorkshire, UK,...
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The Ocean – Holocene Review
For the last few years, The Ocean has been detailing the formation of this dreadful planet with its unique mix of sludge, progressive, and post-metal. In 2018, those building passages and passionate...
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Artificial Sun – The Giants Collapse Review
It’s dangerous territory to claim uniqueness in today’s metal world. What we all assume is original and fresh in a stale scene may seem like yesterday’s garbage to someone else – it’s all subjective....
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Inherus – Beholden Review
You know that scene in The Last of Us where we first meet the clickers, which can’t see but are attracted to the slightest sound? This is how I regard my fellow AMG scribes, as sightless fungi that I...
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Phlebotomized – Clouds of Confusion Review
With their resurgence in 2019 with Deformation of Humanity, Dutch progressive death metal sextet1 Phlebotomized reestablished a foothold on the oddball prog-death scene. Combining off-kilter...
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