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Grillfest: An interview with Arsenic Addiction, August 1, 2026

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Theatrics, rituals, and a musical journey: a Grillfest featured interview with Arsenic Addiction! The second edition of Grillfest is coming very soon, taking place on Saturday, September 12, 2026, in Midvale, Utah. mymetaloftheday.com is an official media partner for Grillfest, and leading up to Grillfest, I am interviewing each band who is playing. This interview is with […]

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Top Releases from February 2026

My Top 5 Albums for February 2026

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Five albums from February 2026 that deserve your listening attention! I am a little late posting this (yeah, I know I said this for the January listing too, but I did also launch my YouTube channel recently), but here are my top 5 releases from February 2026. February featured a lot of great albums, and

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Evig Natt – Vaketimen – Album Review

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Diametric forces collide in a gothic death doom display of heft and beauty! Music is such a great vehicle for conveying a variety of emotions. The often present darker textures, particularly in the doomier genres, translate so well to themes of loss, sorrow, and melancholy, and events in my own life over the past year

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Elements of Rock 2026 at Stadthofsaal in Uster, Switzerland, March 13 – 15, 2026 – Festival Review

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Various flavors of heavy metal collide in Uster, Switzerland, for a fantastic early year Festival! Elements of Rock Festival took place March 13 – 15 at Stadthofsaal in Uster, Switzerland. It started in 2004 and has run annually since, with exception of a few years during COVID. I have only been once before, in 2007,

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Top Releases from January 2026

My Top 5 Albums for January 2026

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Five albums from January 2026 that deserve your listening attention! I am a little late posting this (something about launching my website and getting things ramped up), but here are my top 5 releases from January 2026. The reality is, January kicked off the year in splendid fashion. I reviewed 19 albums released during the

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Meteora – Darkest Light – Album Review

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Progressive metal from Hungary incorporating symphonic, gothic, and death metal notes with a heavy dose of cinematic flair! I stumbled upon Hungary’s Meteora back in November via an Instagram ad letting me know about their at the time recently released  EP, “Broken Mind.” I liked the clip I heard, and after diving in for a

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Marianas Rest – The Bereaved – Album Review

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Exploring the grief of loss with gothic death doom melancholy! Losing someone you love sucks. It can weigh on you like a ton of bricks, suffocating in its pressure, some of the deepest and darkest melancholy one can feel. Many albums across genres have explored these themes, and one of my favorite metal albums from

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My Top Metal albums for 2025: Top 25 full lengths, Top 2 EPs, 16 more to check out

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Notable metal albums from 2025 that are required listening I love seeing end of year lists and am always fascinated to see how different they are from person to person, molded by what they gravitate to and what resonates. I have definitely broadened the genres and bands I listen to, but I still bias toward

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Meteora / Broken Mind – EP Review

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HEAVY gothic symphonic metal with cinematic flair! I rarely review EPs, but this one smacked me so hard that I had to! Meteroa hails from Hungary and recently released this 4-song EP, “Broken Mind.” This is heavy symphonic gothic metal with wonderful orchestration and a heavy helping of death metal. Crushing guitars, intense drums, killer

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Blackbriar / A Thousand Little Deaths – Album Review

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Dark symphonic gothic metal that is beautifully haunting! Beautifully haunting, mesmerizing, enchanting,  enveloping…these are what come to mind when listening to the latest release from Dutch symphonic gothic metal band Blackbriar. “A Thousand Little Deaths” was released in August and has remained in my regular listening rotation since then. I fondly remember first discovering Blackbriar,

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