Our This Week in Metal post collects our thoughts on music released in or around this week in the music world. We cover mostly metal, but we consider other genres to allow our writers poseur flexibility. Follow us on Instagram too!
Metalligator's Chomping Commentary
Make Åkerfeldt growl again" (#MÅGA). This is the premise on which The Goat Review makes its firmest political stance.
Scuttlegoat's Curmudgeonly Critique
Scuttlegoat just knew Chronicles of Lunacy would be good, and it led him to almost being resigned to it — "I was not excited or looking forward to it, I simply accepted that it would be good". Oh, the drum performance! Beating some sense into your liking...
Anti-Peat's Perplexing Position
At this point, Gaerea have become a band with expectations. And yet, somehow, Coma is my first Gaerea album, my first listen to what this Portuguese black metal powerhouse and their cathartic take on the genre has to offer.
Trans-dimensional Being of Extreme Punctuation's Time-skipping Tautology
Fellowship's The Saberlight Chronicles carried the flag high for those hoping to sing and gallop not with challenge but with a smile. And though I'm not typically one to fall for such gallivanting, their underlying talents give me hope in a way that their music does not. But with The Skies Above Eternity boasting both a trimmed runtime and darker narrative promise, can it turn my worm to weenie in its glory?
