Post-Millennial's Guide To Metal (And Some Other Stuff)

The sixth episode of the PMMetalGuide Podcast is up! This week, the lads discuss the new GHOSTMANE album and its place in the broader pantheon of "trap metal." Is this bizarre hyper-modern sub-genre the future of metal itself?

The fifth episode of the PMMetalGuide Podcast is out now! This week, the boys discuss black metal's tendency for Nazi sympathy and metal's long and complicated history with racism.

The foruth episode of the official PMMetalGuide podcast is out! This week, the boys discuss the term "djent" and where it lays in 2020 before turning to a broader chat about the future of popular metal.

  Greg Puciato 's legacy is legendary; My discovery of The Dillinger Escape Plan  years ago not only brought me some of my favorite music ever  but also led me to idolize the crazy antics of the band amidst their success and technical prowess. I still go back and listen to essential releases like Calculating Infinity  and Miss Machine  and revel in the complex, addicting, and brutally heavy compositions put together on all of those releases. It is incredible how dynamic all of those records are, seamlessly switching from mathcore to alt-rock in a matter of thirty-second notes. As a vocalist, however, Puciato's talents really stuck. His shrieks on cuts like "Sunshine The Werewolf", "Farewell, Mona Lisa," and "Prancer" are absolutely iconic, and represent some of the heaviest but still catchy vocal lines in music. But this isn't to discount his clean vocal work on songs like "Unretrofied," "Milk Lizard," and "Widower...

Two post-millennials discuss the various subgenres of modern metal and their far-reaching cultural implications. This week, the boys try to find some positive influences that COVID has had on the metal community amidst the crushing reality. Also, our podcasts are now available through Anchor! Stay tuned for their placement on all major podcast streaming services!

Well, here we are, full circle. Our first review at this address was Sumac 's previous release, their 2018 junior masterpiece  Love In Shadow . Veterans among the readership may know that we labeled that as our fourth best album of that year, a distinction we still stand by to this day. So after another Keiji Haino collaboration, as well as an ongoing global pandemic and struggle for equality, one of the bands we know like the back of our hands has returned with another solo full-length. The last album in which I stayed up to midnight exclusively was with Haken 's Virus , so it's been a while since I've had this sort of eager anticipation for a release. And while "The Iron Chair" serves phenomenally as a single, I always appreciate longer-form music within the context of its whole. Needless to say, May You Be Held  has been on my radar since the moment it was announced. It could be cliche to say that I had high hopes for this release, especially due to all of ...

The second episode of the official PMMetalGuide podcast is out! This week,  we discuss the immensely solid new Deftones album, 'Ohms,' and where it slots into the band's larger discography. PMMetalGuide · PMMetalGuide Podcast Episode 2: Deftones - Ohms Review