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Leviathan’s excellent new album sounds like...death metal! From the crushing low-end riffs, to the guttural vocals and pinch harmonics, this reminds me less of...
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Leviathan’s excellent new album sounds like...death metal! From the crushing low-end riffs, to the guttural vocals and pinch harmonics, this reminds me less of...
A look back at an uprising that captured the spirit of the heavy metal community a decade ago.
Erazor is known as a blackened thrash metal band from Germany. Though this may conjure up thoughts of bands like Aura Noir and Destroyer...
When it comes to black metal, most people think of Darkthrone’s classic trilogy (A Blaze in the Northern Sky, Under a Funeral Moon, and...
These bands embody all the best things about metal: catchy riffs and great songwriting, effective use of melody to create a narrative structure, vocals...
Though it’s commonly summed up as a homogenized slab of Gothenburg riffs and 90’s hardcore breakdowns, the metalcore explosion of the mid-aughts was actually...
Their previous two albums, Under a Frozen Sun and Fallen Angel’s Dominion show a band with a well-honed focus on what they love. The...
While I was writing my review of Black Metal: Evolution of the Cult, I thought it'd be a good idea to reach out to...
Though Enslaved has become renowned in metal circles for records like Isa, Ruun and RIITIIR, there’s no denying the power of the band’s early...
Into the band comes Teloch, a Norwegian guitarist who played in several other black metal bands and was a touring guitarist with Gorgoroth (another...
ach person has his or her own way of delving into an art form. For me, books and documentaries have a colorizing effect on...
A lot of bands do something similar to Downfall of Gaia, but few do it as well and in such an engaging way as...
Sweden's The Crown is one of many great death metal bands to come out of the country's legendary scene. But aside from the occasional...
Bonus: Sylosis just posted a full album stream of their new record, Dormant Heart. A few years ago, I was lucky enough to catch Sylosis...
SSS, or "Short Sharp Shock" is one of the more prominent thrash/crossover bands operating today. While it seems to have been lost on many...
"Reach Beyond The Sun was predicated on correcting past mistakes, namely over-thinking, over-writing, and deliberately over-complicating."
There are perhaps dozens of albums that qualify, but even as the amount of releases continue to rise, the time available remains inconveniently constant....
I had the pleasure of seeing Lazer/Wulf perform last month at the Metal Injection/MetalSucks CMJ showcase, along with the even greater pleasure of meeting...
Having been one of the early gore-soaked bands in the genre, Necrophagia broke up in the late 80’s, but reformed ten years later to...
Peter Shallmin is the bassist and creative driving force behind ESCAPETHECULT, the new supergroup featuring members of Primus, Mercyful Fate, Uneven Structure and Kamlath....
Last week I made my way up to Hartford’s Webster Theater, as I’ve done so many times in the past 10 years to see...
Few artists have generated more press in 2014 than Danish black metal act, Myrkur, the one-woman project of Amelie Bruun. Her debut album has...
To be honest, I’m not exactly sure what angle to take in this review. Do I try a purely fair assessment of Bloodtruth’s abilities...