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Swearing can be a crutch when it comes to writing, but sweet shit-fucking merciful Christ in hell, this was a terrible fucking year. I...
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Swearing can be a crutch when it comes to writing, but sweet shit-fucking merciful Christ in hell, this was a terrible fucking year. I...
Pure metal fans may not enjoy Hiss Spun’s icy cocktail of deeply distorted alternative rock, folk, and electronics, but anyone willing to step just...
It's fair to debate Lotus Thief's classification as metal, but metal's arcane soul and depth of spirit are undeniably present, and anyone with a...
Inverloch is a relatively young project with plenty of room to move outside the shadow of its legacy. I'm just not sure which direction...
Today, Diadem of 12 Stars makes for a very interesting listen. Not just due to the passage of time, but because of the difference...
Seeing as how done Abbath sounded in 2009, I wasn’t sure what to expect from his eponymous debut. Given that he was the primary...
Deeper Than Sky could have been another passion project, the lovechild of a few eclectic superstars (at least as far as the underground is...
If tech-death is your jam then this album will probably knock your socks off or at least pull them part way down.
One of this week's hottest items was former Rage Against the Machine bassist Tim Commerford “apologizing,” for the birth and subsequently massive (for a...
Despite outlasting their Finnish brethren, who split up shortly after Stream, Skepticism haven’t exactly been the most prolific dudes on the planet. Ordeal is...
You could easily look at Pentagram and see a band whose true value lies not in their music but in their rich, well-documented mythology...
Chelsea Wolfe has been on a lot of metal fans’ radars for this very same reason. While her droning, ghost-eyed and occasionally blackened (in...
Bong—whose name is much more of a phonetic interpretation of their sound than a blunt (lulz) attempt at weed humor—have made a small but...
Minnesota metal troupe Obsequiae’s 2011 debut, Suspended in the Brume of Eos, was a gift from the Metal Gods that deftly managed to satisfy...
It's easy to see why Immortal were one of the first black metal bands to achieve tangible mainstream success. They didn't really sing about...
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