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Relentless Mutation is a great step forward for Archspire, as the writing is vastly improved and more consistent than on previous records. And it’s...
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Relentless Mutation is a great step forward for Archspire, as the writing is vastly improved and more consistent than on previous records. And it’s...
Songs like “Rites of the Locust” and “Les Sepulcri” represent the band at their best, with massive riffs and a perfectly honed atmosphere that...
If you want a good snapshot of where a lot of extreme metal is today, this is the right place to look.
Howling is a magnificent triumph. If you like dark, heavy music of any kind, you must listen to this album.
Darkthrone’s 1993 album, Under a Funeral Moon, represents the true essence of black metal. You can largely determine how you feel about black metal...
Mayhem brought the sold-out show a stirring performance of their classic 1994, with Inquisition and Black Anvil providing the perfect black metal support.
What is one record we can point to that signals that crucial mid-80s shift in hardcore? Turns out Southern Lord has just re-issued that...
If there’s anything you can say about “metal in 2016,” it’s that there’s no one definitive thing to say about metal in 2016. But...
For many people, the legendary black metal bands of the early 1990s are like characters from a horror movie or your favorite dark fantasy...
What Decision Day gives Sodom is the ability to add new songs to their set-list. Likewise, it gives fans new songs to mosh and...
This album gets to the heart of what extreme music is: an artistic expression of the dark, ugly side of existence (whether in this...
Beast preserves many of the fundamentals of the band’s sound. As expected, there’s plenty of heavy grooves, breakdowns and mind-splitting blast-beats. Beast is a...
You Will Never Be One of Us is brief, brutal and devastatingly effective. It’s everything an extreme music fan could want.
If you’re looking for a chaotic, yet captivating take on pure, straightforward black metal: listen to The Poisonous Path. If you don’t like straightforward...
For black metal enthusiasts, the work of Dayal Patterson is essential reading. With Black Metal: Evolution of the Cult, he gave metal audiences the...
For fans of Intronaut, Mastodon and Helms Alee, Warm should be high on the priority list of bands to get into. Stream “A Pale...
There were rumors that New England Metal and Hardcore Fest wasn't going to happen this year. With some changes in management and the murmurs...
With each passing release, Ihsahn seems to add more colors and styles into the mix he concocted at the dawn of his solo career....
Nice to get some recognition from the Wall Street Journal.
Aeons in Sodom tends to play more like Urgehal’s original output: very good black metal that doesn’t really do much to stand out. However,...
I was exploring some playlists on Spotify and when I looked on one of their grunge lists, I saw the artist name "Quorthon" there....
Every style of heavy metal, or music in general, has its culminating album: recordings that capture and define a movement or era. For Norwegian...
Social media has long been derided as the home of ridiculous cat pictures, videos and memes. This is true. Black metal is held dear...