What can be said about Switzerland’s Coroner at this point, right?! A few things to point out before getting into Dissonance Theory, their 6th album. Their last album, the disjointed Grin, released in 1993, polarized fans, and this new one, quite honestly, is the comeback album Dark Angel should have written. That is how great […]

New Jersey’s Condition Critical have been rather quiet since their second album, Extermination Plan in 2016. They had followed their 2013 debut, Operational Hazard, with that killer album. Brazil’s Marquee Records did remaster reissues of both albums, which I reviewed here. The band is made up of Mike Dreher on bass/vocals (backing), Ryan Donato on drums, […]

From the murky depths of Missouri comes the fourth full-length from native sons Degrave. If you recall, I covered their previous, jaw-dropping release Volume from 2023. That was a metal as fuck album and… good news, everyone! Metalithic fucking kills! I mean that too, in no uncertain terms, this record is solid as a rock, […]