Album Reviews7.9/10
Gojira Tear Down The Wall Between Metal And Everything Else On Magma
Gojira's Magma tears down the wall between metal and everything else, blending melodic immediacy with brutal death-metal teeth.
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Album Reviews8/10
Gojira’s ‘From Mars to Sirius’ Turns Heavy Metal Into Environmental Protest Music
A heavy record built on scale: thirteen tracks, seventy-two minutes, almost nothing small.
Album Reviews8.6/10
Gojira’s L’Enfant Sauvage Trades Volume for Weight, and Mostly Delivers
A review of Gojira's L'Enfant sauvage, a restrained metal album about wildness and humanity, scored 8.6/10.
Album Reviews7/10
Gojira’s ‘The Link’: Heavy Metal That Breathes Between the Blows
Gojira's 2003 debut blends brutal death metal with atmospheric post-metal, earning a 7/10 score.
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Gojira’s Terra Incognita Crashes Its Own Party — 2.0/10
Gojira's Terra incognita piles death metal, metalcore, and more into a 66-minute mess with flashes of real quality.
Album Reviews8/10
Melvins Dig Deeper Into Noise on The Bride Screamed Murder
A review of Melvins' 13th album, a dense, exhausting listen that buries pop hooks under mountains of distortion.
Album Reviews7.2/10
The Melvins Let the Surfers Color Hold It In, and It Mostly Works
A review of the Melvins' 2014 double album Hold It In, weighing its strengths and weaknesses against its critical standing.
Album Reviews8/10
Stag Review: Melvins Refuse to Settle on Their Restless 1996 Experiment
A restless record of sitar freakouts, doom crawls, and a singer who bends the whole thing into something sharper.
Album Reviews8/10
Melvins and Napalm Death Split Sludge and Noise on Savage Imperial Death March
A brutal death-metal statement and a loose rock record collide in Savage Imperial Death March.
Album Reviews6/10
Melvins’ Ozma Weighs Down Its Own Ambitions
A record of heavy weight and short songs, wherein a band struggles to escape the repetition that binds it.
Album Reviews7/10
Melvins Smash Down Their Wall and Rebuild It With Covers on Electroretard
A record of old songs made new again, a jest and a solemn statement, wherein a wall is both broken and built anew.
Album Reviews8/10
Melvins Slow the Sludge on Bad Mood Rising
A heavy, patient record from a band who refuse to rush, blending sludge with guest guitarist Dylan Carlson.