Our January 2025 Albums of the Month!
First AOTM post of the year! Has 2025 got the juice? There’s only one way to find out…
Review: Crown of Madness – Memories Fragmented
O! let me not be mad, not mad, sweet heaven;
Keep me in temper; I would not be mad!
Review: Sarmat – Upgrade
The improv jazz/metal gods are back!
Review: Sleep Paralysis – Sleep Paralysis
A fine alternative to a 20-milligram dose of Benadryl.
Review: Pathogenic – Crowned in Corpses
This album will undoubtedly stab you in face, as the art implies.
Review: HARP – The Distance Within
Apologies for HARPing on and on about this one.
Review: Object Unto Earth – The Grim Village
A science-based, 100% frog album.
Review: Selvans – Saturnalia
Balling out with a full orchestra, the Italian horror black/heavy project returns for its final album.
Review: Seventh Station – On Shoulders of Giants
An homage to postmodernist composers and a rejection of conventionality, this is prog metal pushed to its limits.
Double Review: Opera Nera – The Tempest
If music be the food of love, then open up this fucking pit.