Barely Legal Album Reviews

It's been awhile, but I've finally got some new albums worth talking about for this week. " The Mincecore Manifesto" from Haggus, " Dear God " from The Pretty Reckless, " Washington State Charm" from Monument Of Misery, " The Wow! Signal" from Muse, " Dissolution" from Siamese and " Pillars" from Zao

Continuing on from last episode, I talk about six more Underground Nu Metal albums . "Unspoken Word " from Stoopi, " Introduction To Mayhem " from Primer 55, " Invitation To The Dance" from 40 Below Summer, " Untitled "from Five Pointe O, " Self Titled " from Element Eighty and " Anarchists Of Good Taste " from Dog Fashion Disco

For this week's episode, I decided to do something just a tad different from the norm, and talk about some classic Underground Nu Metal albums, which includes " Pimp " from Clown, " Lost Angel" from 3rd Strike, " Disconnected " from Dry Cell, " My Disease " from LeFT, "Downthesun" from Downthesun and "Strangers, Liars, Misfits, Friends" from Project Wyze

For this weeks episode,.I talk.abiut the six new albums I listened to for this week, which includes " These Graven Halls " from Balmora, " Death Won't Be The End Of Me Part 2" from Light The Fire, the stupidly titled " Ei8ht" from Shinedown, " Slamdown Is Not A Phase Mom " from Gutrectomy, " All Hail Hypocrisy" from The Cruel Intentions and " Patchwork & Standby" from Foxblood

For this week's episode I sit down to talk about " Diminishing Between Worlds " from Decrepit Birth, " In The Shadows Of A Thousand Suns" From Abigail Williams, " Rareform" from After The Burial, " Shogun" from Trivium , and Intervals" from See You Next Tuesday

For this episode I talk about six new albums I listened to this week which includes " Worldwide Beatdown" from Demsfightingwords, "Phosphor" from The Narrator, " Vindicate" from Black Veil Brides, " No Place Of Warmth " from Frozen Soul, " Art Of Chaos " from Crashdiet and " Denigration" from Ingested

For this episode I sit down to talk about the six new albums I've been listening to this week which includes " The End Is Not The End " from Atreyu, " House Of Cards " from The Amity Affliction " , " We Are The Gods That Tear Ourselves Apart" from Necrotted, " Roadkill" from Devil's Cut, " The Weight Of Everything " from Waste and " Still Suffer " from Terror

For this episode I talk about " Awaken The Dreamers" from All Shall Perish, " Death Magnetic" from Metallica, " Traitors" from Misery Index , " The Diseased And The Poisoned " from Carnifex and " Black Ice " from AC/DC

For this episode I dive into some of the brand new albums that just came out this week which includes " Too Fast To Die " from Archspire, " In Death Throes " from Vomitory, " When Love Dies " from Halocene, " Hell Is Here, Hell Is Home " from Bodysnatcher, " KINDA HARD" from Bilmuri and " Heaven Wept " from Inferi.

With their being absolutely nothing to talk about when it comes to new releases this week , I talk about some of the newer albums that came out this year that I listened to, but didn't have time to talk about , which includes " Absolute Core Annihalation" from Infectious Jelqing/Wiggavisceration, " Malombra" from Dance With The Dead, " Declassified" from Tom MacDonald, " Bite This!" From Resistor, " All In The Name Of Entertainment " from Ashes At Last and " Advent Of Chaos " from Amongruins

For this week's episode, I sit down to talk about " This Is Exile " from Whitechapel, " Chelsea Grin" EP from Chelsea Grin, *Nostradamus* from Judas Priest, " Tube Of The Resinated" from Cannibus Corpse and " Total Brutal " from Austrian Death Machine

For this week's episode , I talk about six brand new albums that I listened to this week: " Loss" from Gaerea, " Peace In Place" from Poison The Well, " Anatomy Of Suffering " from Dawn Of Ashes, " The Puzzle Box EP" from Twiztid, " Concrete Throne " from Atilla and " March Of The Venus 5" from Venus 5

For this week's episode , I sit down to talk about six new albums I listened to this week; " Celebrate" from Blackstone Cherry, "Whiteout" from Acranius, " I Don't Feel You Here Anymore" from Hourhouse, " Silence Outlives The Earth" from Erra, " Act II: Of Iron And Blood " from Lomsk and " The Crawl " from Temple Of Void

For this week's episode , I sit down to talk about " The Way Of All Flesh" from Gojira, "Twilight Of The Thunder God " from Amon Amarth, " Guitar Gangsters & Cadillac Blood " from Volbeat , " All Hope Is Gone " from Slipknot , " Melancholie" from Coldworld and " Suicide Season " from Bring Me The Horizon

For this week's episode z I sit down to talk about some of the new albums I listened to that were released this week, which includes " Love Is Not Enough " from Converge, " Skin Cage" from Diskust, " Temple Balls" from Temple Balls, "Necropalace" from Worm, " A.R.S.O.N" from Story Of The Year and " Brutality Is Supremacy" from Skin Stripper

As promised , I actually managed to pump out a regular segment for you guys this week , and sit down to talk about six albums that are turning eighteen this year . " Changes " from For The Fallen Dreams, " Horror " from With Blood Comes Cleansing , " Bury Your Dead " from Bury Your Dead " Til Death Do Us Part " from Deicide, " Scars & Souvenirs" from Theory Of A Deadman and " The Respect Issue" from Emmure.

For the first proper episode of the year, I talk about the newest albums I listened to this week, which includes " Empty Hands* from Poppy, " Bleed///Reboot" from Dagger Threat, " Reek Of God " from Barbarian, " Descending " from Elwood Stray and " The Weight Of Sound " from Crystal Lake

After somehow losing my god damn notes ( hey, it happens ) I decided to change gears just for this episode and talk about the three main reasons why I think today's metal bands suck

Yeah yeah the final episode of the year ( and season ) should be longer, but I didn't wanna keep boring you guys with my top 100 albums of the year. So I decided to record a holiday message instead. BLAR will return the second Saturday of January 2026

Still going on with this needlessly long list, I cover albums 73-83

Closer still.to the end of this huge list , I cover albums 58-72 of my top albums for the year

Getting closer to the end of my list , I cover albums 44-57

This week we talk about albums 31-43 o my top 100 albums of 2025 list

For this week's episode I talk about 15-30 of my top 100 albums of the year . Listen to find out what they are !

I begin to talk about the first 14 out of 100 albums that are my top favorites for the year . What are they ? Listen and find out !

Even though this week was supposed to be a regular segment , I decided to skip it and talk about the new albums that came out this week that I've been listening to, which includes " A Heart Is A Heavy Burden " from Heavensgate , " The Cursed Crown " from Killstreak, " You Are Safe From God Here " from The Acacia Strain, " Creature In The Black Night " from Dayseeker , " And Everything Was Dark" from Downswing and " Blood Covenant " from Adept

After an unplanned week off last week, I return with six new albums that I've been listening to this week, which includes " Limewire " from Dying In Designer , " Hideous Aftermath " from Sanguisugabogg, " Black Hole Heart " from Dead Eyes , " Sport Metal" from DEXDBELL, " Conspiracy" from Living Dead Girl and " Goodbye , My Son In Pain " from Ratgod

For this week's episode, I sit down to talk about the new albums I've been listening to that came out this week, which includes "King Of Fears " from President , " PF Radio 2 " from Peeling Flesh , " Convergence: Two Minds In One " from Villain Of The Story, " Flesh Stays Together " from Dying Wish ," Borderland " from Amorphis , " Achtung ! " From Curse Of Cain and " Darkness Invisible " from Mors Principium Est

For this week's episode I sit down to talk about " World Extermination " from Insect Warfare, " In Requiem " from Paradise Lost , " Terrorize, Brutalize, Sodomize" from Vomitory, " Minus The Herd " from Ion Dissonance and " Serpent Saints - The Ten Amendments " from Entombed

Yes, I'm aware I was supposed to do a regular segment for this week's episode, but there were some pretty big releases this week, so I decided to do that instead and talk about " I Feel The Everblack Festering Within Me " from Lorna Shore , " I Watched You Burn " from Nicolas Cage Fighter , " The Wheel " from I See Stars, " The Blue Nowhere " from Between The Buried & Me , " Weaponize Your Rage " from Not Enough Space , " Pantheon " from Dance Gavin Dance " and " Silos " from Starset

After a state of BLAR announcement I sit down to talk about the new shit I've been listening to for this week's which includes " Premonitions " from Synestia, " To Reconcile With Death For The Sake Of A Beautiful Goodbye " from Long Goodbye, " IO" from ten56, " Gallows " from Blessthefall, " The Weight Of What I've Become " from Prospective and "Deadwired" from Bodyweb

For this week's episode , I sit down to talk about " Angel Down " from Sebastian Bach, " " Runnin' Wild " from Airborne, " Rom 5:12 " from Marduk, "Famous " from Puddle Of Mudd, "Minutes To Midnight " from Linkin Park , " Kill The Headlights " from Adema and " Elect The Dead " from Serj Tankian

For this week's episode I talk about the newest albums that came out this Friday, which includes " Private Music " from Deftones, " Alienation" from Three Days Grace , " To Rid Myself Of Truth " from Signs Of The Swarm, " Everything Is Beautiful Because We're Doomed " from We Came As Romans , " Going Postal " from Begging For Incest and "Daybreak" from Woe, Is Me

For this week's episode I sit down to talk about "Mechanics Of Dysfunction" from Beneath The Massacre , " Resurrection" from Chimaira, "Dead Again " from Type O Negative, " Vena Sera " from Chevelle , " III : So Long Suckers " from Reverend Bizarre and " Ur Jordens Djupp" from Finntroll

Yes, after a short break for vacation, I'm back with an all new episode of New Shit That I've Been Jamming ! For this week's episode I sit down to talk about the new releases thet I've been jamming, which includes " Yokai " from Dropout Kings, " Lost Americana" from MGK, " Buried In Jade " from Thousand Below, " The Lost Years " from Dreamwake, "Everest" from Halestorm, " Attack Attack II " from Attack Attack, " Blackbraid III " from Blackbraid, " Silence And Sorrow" from Uponbrokenapologies and "Kanashimi" from Beyond Deviation

For this episode I sit down to talk about some brand new spanking albums that came out this week, including " Vices & Virtues " from Ryan Jesse, "I Will Not Be Found Here After " from Cell, " Best Of ( Vol. One ) " from Five Finger Death Punch, " Grizzly " from Slaughter To Prevail, " A Funeral In Purgatory" from Blind Equation and " Sorrow Will Drown Us All" from Recorruptor BLAR will return on August 9th

For this week's episode. I sit down to talk about " Dominator" from W.A.S.P., " Give Me Your Soul...Please" from King Diamond, " Phantom Limb " from Pig Destroyer, * Pressure The Hinges " from Haste The Day, " Horrorhammer" from Abscess and " The Fiance " from The Chariot

For this week's segment , I talk about several new albums that I've been listening to this week, including " The Lo-Files " from Bring Me The Horizon , " Hollywood Mortician " from Nathan James , " Through Shadows " from Born Of Osiris , " Plead The Fifth " from Madhouse, " Behind A Vision " from Eternal Idol and "blurmotion" from Split Chain

For this week's episode , I sit down to talk about and critique " Ruins " from Architects, " Year Zero" from Nine Inch Nails , " The Last Kind Words " from Devildriver, " Humanity: Hour I " from Scorpions, " Down III : Over The Under " from Down and " Libertad " from Velvet Revolver

Yup, that's right dear listener . I once again forgot all about the regular segment for this week , so ya'll are just getting this this week, so you'll listen to me baby me about " TSP VOL 2. SYMBIOSIS" from Darknet, " The Journey " from Sik World, " All The Devils Are Here " from Mugshot, " No Place Like Home " from Badflower, " An Insatiable Violence " from Cryptopsy and " Where Only The Truth Is Spoken" from Malevolence

For this week's segment I sit down to talk six new albums that I've listened to this week which includes " WRATHBERRY" from Berried Alive, " Ataraxia 19.13.8.1.19 " from Fromjoy, " Xenotaph " from Fallujah, " OH KAY " from Ando San, " Roar Like Thunder " from Buckcherry and " Temporary High " from Archers

For this episode I sit down to talk about " Genesis " from.Job For A Cowboy, " Goodbye To The Gallows " from Emmure ," The Marrow From A Bone " from Dir En Grey, " The Art Of Partying " from Municipal Waste, " Fire Up The Blades " from 3 Inches Of Blood and " Open Fire " from Alabama Thunderpussy

Yes, there was supposed to be two episodes for the opening of this third season , but due to technical difficulties twice and me getting pissed the hell off, ya'll are just getting one episode this week. I sit down to talk about new releases that came out this week, which includes " Infecting The Scars " from Dawn Of Ashes, "Nightmares As Extensions Of The Waking State " from Katatonia, " Never Enough " from Turnstile, " God Of Angels Trust " from Volbeat , " A Door Left Open " from Orthodox, " Mob Mentality" from Autumn Lies Buried and " A Young Persons Guide To " from King Parrot

To round out the season finale , i talk about " Pain Communion" from Collapsed Vein, Dethmask Part 3" from Darko US, " The Birth Of Death " from Ameonna , " Scorched Earth " from Harikari For The Sky and " You'll Know It Was Me " from Church Tongue. BLAR will return May 31st

For the season finale I thought I'd talk about some new albums that I didn't get to talk about this season , which includes " Cursed " from Paleface Swiss, " Big Ole Album Vol. one " from A Day To Remember, " How To Metal Vol. 3 " from Nik Nocturnal , " Vengeance " from Drown In Sulphur , " Keep Planting Flowers " from Stick To Your Guns , " The Omega Of Creation " from Obey The Kraken , " Higher Ground " from Bonfire and " Trials Of Failure " from Open Kasket BLAR will return May 31st

For this segment I talk about " Skeleta" from Ghost , " Unatoned " from Machine Head , " Mid Death Crisis" from Wednesday 13, " Back From Hell " from Caliban, " Welcome To The Future " from H.E.A.T, " Fallen Star " from Employed To Serve, " The Darkest Place I've Ever Been " from Landmvrks and " Big Trouble " from Coffin Feeder Note : I believe I forgot to say that " Fallen Star " was from Employed To Serve in the episode , due to me being a f*cking idiot

For this week I sit down to talk about " Untitled " from Korn , "Ithyphalic" from Nile, " Sworn Ve grande" from Severe Torture , " Death is This Communion " from High On Fire , " When I Am God " from Oh, Sleeper and " Full Circle " from Drowning Pool

Due to there being a significant lack of new releases worth talking about this week, this is a shorter episode than usual, but I didn't manage to scrounge up a few for you guys to talk about, which includes : " To Love Is To Regret" from. Set//Adrift , "The Chapel Of The Resurrection" from By Way Of Sacrifice ", "Martyr" from Face Yourself , " We Belong In The Grave " from Crypts Of Despair , " Perpetual Imbalance " from Horrid Human Condition and " Weeping Season Vol. 2 " from Wither// Bloom

For this week's episode I discuss ! " An Ocean Between Us " from As I Lay Dying , " The Ills Of Modern Man " from Despised Icon, " Dressed Up As Life" from Sick Puppies, " Versions" from Poison The Well, " Mongrel " from The Number Twelve Looks Like You and " Shadows In The Light " from Immolation