Articles by Max Morin
Rozi Plain's 'Prize' Is Full of Careful Thrills
PUBLISHED Jan 11, 2023
Some music is worth more than the sum of its parts. Rozi Plain's fifth album strips her synthetic folk style down to its bare essentials, r...
Spiritbox Want to Be the "2 Chainz of Metalcore"
PUBLISHED Aug 23, 2021
Heavy metal is on the verge of a revolution. The old guard is retiring (Goodbye Slayer! So long Necrophagia!) and the future is in the hand...
Mastodon's 'Medium Rarities' Contains Gems but Is Mostly Inessential
PUBLISHED Sep 10, 2020
Medium Rarities — a jumble of Mastodon's rare tracks, covers, live recordings and instrumentals — is itself a mixed bag, where some things...
Bell Witch and Aerial Ruin's 'Stygian Bough Volume I' Rewards Patience
PUBLISHED Jun 25, 2020
Visionary bands like Bell Witch are a rare commodity. Leave it to the doom duo to stretch a five-song EP out over sixty minutes. Together w...
Cro-Mags' 'In the Beginning' Is the Most Classic Hardcore Punk Imaginable
PUBLISHED Jun 23, 2020
The amount of bands that check Cro-Mags as an influence is mind-boggling. As creators of 1986's The Age of Quarrel, Cro-Mags spearheaded a...
Asking Alexandria Won't Win Over the Haters with 'Like a House on Fire,' but They Aren't Trying To
PUBLISHED May 13, 2020
Asking Alexandria might be the most divisive band in modern metal. They inspired a generation of Hot Topic-wearing teens with Stand Up and...
Katatonia Perfect Their Prog-Doom Stylings on 'City Burials'
PUBLISHED Apr 24, 2020
Let's face it, 2020 has been one long, hard kick in the teeth so far. Has there ever been a better time for a bummed-out, beautiful Scandin...
Elder Sprawl Out on Doom Rock Epic 'Omens'
PUBLISHED Apr 24, 2020
The word "epic" is overused, but how else do you describe five 10-minute tracks of heavy doom rock? Omens is more of an extended jam sessio...
