Reviews & News

April 18, 2024

Album Review - Dvne "Voidkind"

If you have been following Vox&Hops for the past few years, you know how much Matt and I loved Dvne’s 2021 release Etemen Ænka. We both had it slotted in at number 2 of our top 10 and if it had not been for Worm and the magnificent F…

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April 8, 2024

Album Review - Full of Hell "Coagulated Bliss"

Full of Hell are never where you expect them. The Maryland-based grindcore outfit released no less than three records last year, none of them entirely their own: collaborations with doom metal titans Primitive Man and the darkest shoe…

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April 5, 2024

Album Review - Akloleh "The Kabbalist"

Early in 2023, I found a release that had me really intrigued. A Yiddish black metal project by the name of Akloleh. I had seen so many types of black metal but never Yiddish. I immediately hit play and was totally blown away by it. Was it a bit rou…

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March 7, 2024

Album Review - Judas Priest "Invincible Shield"

When a popular band reaches the legacy era of their career, they don’t even have to release any new records. They can tour with the songs they already have until they shuffle off their mortal coils and no one’s gonna care. Would you be p…

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Feb. 16, 2024

Album Review - Darkspace "II"

Every metalhead I know loves ol’ Tobias Möckl. The man who turned “lo-fi recording” (to be polite) into an art form and has constantly kicked ass for over twenty-five years now and inspiration doesn’t seem to want to lea…

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Feb. 16, 2024

Video Album Review - Ihsahn "Ihsahn"

"Ihsahn transformed a simple and safe double album idea into an incredible soundtrack full of emotions and darkness!" -Phil 2Vitesses from Whispers From The Void Podcast

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Feb. 12, 2024

Album Review - Spectral Voice "Sparagmos"

They say good things come to those that wait. In the case of the new music from Denver’s death doom champions Spectral Voice, it has been nearly 7 years since their debut full length Eroded Corridors of Unbeing was released upon the masses. Th…

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Feb. 3, 2024

Pit Culture - Ribald Brewing

Ribald Brewing's "" is a 6.66% Indian Pale Lager that was brewed with Chinook, Huell Melon, Azacca, and Idaho 7 Hops. "STANK FACE" is what happens to your expression when that nasty riff hits. "STANK FACE" was brewed as a part of Metal Injection&n…

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Jan. 29, 2024

Album Review - Brodequin "Harbinger of Woe"

I don’t know who ever thought death metal ever needed to be more brutal than it already was, but that man was a genius and an innovator. Imagine listening to Tomb of the Mutilated in 1991 and thinking “shit, I can go way ha…

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Jan. 18, 2024

Album Review - Upon Stone "Dead Mother Moon"

It has been a hot minute since I have sat down and pounded out a review for the masses, but a new year brings new music and boy do I have a banger for you all to check out. This band that I will be featuring today is one of the hottest new bands in …

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