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Review Spotlight for May 2026

Chamber

this is goodbye…

Text-based artwork with words like 'arms of eternity,' 'scarlet ink,' 'violins,' 'vanity,' 'surveillance,' 'parting gift,' 'angel,' and 'death without departure in a vertical list, set against a textured white background.

Atreyu

The End Is Not The End

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Black and white collage featuring skeletal skulls, tattooed arms, and various gothic and horror-themed images, including spiders, faces, and symbols.
Dark, neon-green scene with large skulls and serpents, and a stylized band logo in the top right corner. Text at bottom reads 'Inventing Brilliance'.
A woman with long dark hair taking a mirror selfie with her phone, reflected in a tall mirror with a slightly distorted, iridescent surface. She is holding one hand near her face and the other near her chest, wearing rings, with her face partly obscured and no shirt visible.
Black album cover with white neon outline of a face in profile, facing left, with the title 'Spiritbox' at the top left corner. Small white text at the bottom mentions licensing and copyright information.
Artwork depicting two wolves, one black and one white, fighting among a tangle of leafless branches.
Shattered glass with a skull design in the center, and red text that reads 'KILL SWITCH ENGAGE' at the top and 'AS DAY LIGHT DIES SPECIAL EDITION' at the bottom.
A dark fantasy art scene showing three large skulls with one having an exposed eyeball and some being partly melted, surrounded by lightning and fiery red swirling skies. In front, there are people running away and a staircase leading towards the skulls. The phrase 'No One Escapes Death' is written at the bottom.
Abstract digital image with blue-tinted pixelated pattern on the left and white background on the right. Black graffiti-style text/logo is visible. Overlaid text includes lyrics such as 'arms of eternity,' 'scarlet ink,' 'violins,' 'vanity,' 'surveillance,' and more, with some words partially visible or cut off.

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Honest music reviews that span a wide array of genres, with a heavier focus on metal music specifically. We will showcase not only new releases as they arrive under our “Reviews” section, but also take a look back at some classics. Our “In Review Series” section will be updated periodically with reviews and rankings of entire discographies from bands I love. Finally, we will honor the greatest metalcore albums of all time by forever enshrining them under our “Metalcore Masterpieces” section.