It has been quite some time since Montreal’s Cryptopsy has offered up a new full-length album to the masses. Since 2012’s self-titled album, Cryptopsy has released only two EP’s: The Book of Suffering – Tome I and II in 2015 …
New Level Brewing's "IVAR THE BONELESS" is a 4.5% Lemon Lager. "IVAR THE BONELESS" was brewed as a part of Metal Injection presents Vox&Hops Pit Culture which is powered by Yakima Chief Hops. "IVAR THE BONELESS" is now available at N…
Ghost Town Brewing's "HAYMAKER" is a 7.1% West Coast IPA that was smashed with a Citra, Mosaic 702, HBC586, Riwaka Hops. "HAYMAKER" was brewed as a part of Metal Injection presents Vox&Hops Pit Culture which is powered by Yakima Chief…
Jackknife Brewing's "CROWD KILLER" is a 6.66% IPA that was smashed with a bunch of Cryo 630 Hops. "CROWD KILLER"... like it or hate it... sometimes you just have to destroy everything in the pit. "CROWD KILLER" was brewed as a part of Metal Inject…
Folly Brewing's "SLOW BANG" is a 8.5% Brewtally Heavy Black IPA. It was aggressively dry-hopped with Chinook, Cascade and Centennial Hops. "SLOW BANG" is when that low and heavy riff hits and you have no choice but to slowly bang your h…
Sideward Brewing's "STAGE DIVER" the IPA with Honey & Orange peel. "STAGE DIVER" is something that happens when you just have to get into the pit as fast as possible and the only access to it is via the stage. "STAGE DIVER" was brewed as a par…
Vector Brewing's "CROSSED ARMS" is a 4.5% Summer Saison that was brewed with TexMalt pils and German spelt, then dry hopped with both Simcoe and Loral Hops. "CROSSED ARMS" is the classic gesture of defensiveness. When you need a break from th…
Lo! are a band that don’t easily lend themselves to being categorised, and if I refer to other bands in this review it’s only as points of reference, because Lo! very much have a style all of their own. There’s always a risk in com…
Hércules Cervecera's "WHIPLASH" is a 6.7% Cold IPA that was hopped with Cryo-Huell Melon, Simcoe, Ekuanot and Mosaic Hops. WHIPLASH is a neck injury due to forceful, rapid back-and-forth movement of the neck, like the cracking of a whip whic…
Speciation Artisan Ales's "HEADWALK" is a 6.5% ABV Foeder Aged Saison with El Dorado And Citra Hops. HEADWALK personifies the act of running off of the stage, and continuing your jog across the faces of the crowd. "HEADWALK" was brewed as a part o…
Late in 2021, I stumbled across an EP from a solo artist under the name Nekrotisk. I was totally floored by the sheer ferocity of the music that I immediately went and snagged a copy on Bandcamp and added the tunes to the Brewtal Awakenings playlist…
Radical Way Brewing's "STAGE INVASION" is a 4.9% ABV Session Hazy IPA. With the metal festival season in full swing, this one is designed to get you through the most brutal of pits!! Azacca, Mosaic, Amarillo and Cashmere hops give this belter a full…
You may not have heard of the one-person Belgian death-doom project Gateway before - and to be honest neither had I until a couple of months ago when a pre-order notification from Transcending Obscurity records arrived in my Bandcamp messages folder…
“Fuuuuck, this guy is really fucking good. This bodes well for tonight, ” I said to my review crew colleague Phil, a song and a half into the four bands line-up that would lead to Cattle Decapitation and Dark Funeral at Club Soda, last m…
Atoms Brewing's "WE CAME AS ITALIANS" is a 4.5% Pale Ale. Time to join the mosh pit... Italian style! We are proud to be the only Italian brewery to join the crowd, spreading metal culture throughout Italy. Get some pizza and spaghetti …
Tamás Kátai, the mastermind behind avant-garde metal act Thy Catafalque, has done it again. Alfӧld is his eleventh full-length under the Thy Catafalque banner and the follow up to 2021’s Vadak. Alfӧld to me is a bit more dial bac…
Although they’re legends, Godflesh isn’t a band for metal purists. Unapologetically industrial and chaotic, the Birmingham duo of Justin K. Broadrick and Ben Green have been delivering skull-crushing, but fearlessly experimental music fo…
Dry & Bitter Brewing Company's "SPIN KICKS" is a 6.2% IPA that was brewed with Mosaic, Citra and Simcoe Hops. It is a killer brew with resinous tropical aromas and refreshing body. Emulating Chun-Li in the midst of a mosh pit. You m…
Immortal aren’t just one of the most popular black metal bands of all time, they’re also iconic. When people who don’t care about black metal hear the words “black metal”, they think about Immortal because of Guita…
After a lengthy hiatus, Australian depressive black metal legends Austere are back with their first album since 2009’s To Lay Like Old Ashes. The two-piece band consists of Desolate (Mitchell Keepin) on guitar/bass and Sorrow (Tim Yatras) on d…
It is always a big risk for bands to take chances on their sound early on their careers. Change too much and fans will label you a sellout and if you don’t change enough, people will say everything sounds the same. On the Fort Worth, TX quinte…
It’s hard to approach a new album from a band like Cattle Decapitation, who have become one of the defining bands in contemporary extreme metal. Personally, I found the last album left me a little cold. This is partly because on the previous t…
Stoked to announce that my band Cryptopsy is now a part of Nuclear Blast Records! Nuclear Blast is an iconic label that has released countless influential albums by bands such as Carcass , Hatebreed, In Flames, Lamb of God, Munic…
I am stoked to crown Brasserie Sir John Brewing as the Haze Lord of 2023!Yakima Chief Hops presents Vox&Hops Haze Wars took place this past Saturday at Kahnawake Brewing Company.6 breweries went head to head to create their best mono-hop IPA.For…