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Technical death metal is a crowded field these days. And it's not a new style either, so maintaining a sense of identity can be...
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Technical death metal is a crowded field these days. And it's not a new style either, so maintaining a sense of identity can be...
In terms of pure, outstanding black metal in the 2nd-wave tradition, Gorgoroth has produced some of the finest albums ever made. Though there is...
It feels right to have a new Drudkh album arrive in 2015. The legendary Ukrainian band is known for their deep affection for their...
You can only be a purist so much of the time before you need to let loose. I imagine all metal fans have a...
This album was actually self-released by Wende’s sole member, Zamiel, back in 2011. But this debut album, along with its follow up (The Third...
Honestly, the only complaint I could possibly make about the album is “it’s been done before,” which only bears out the answer “please keep...
For those of us who often lament that there’s no energy left in punk, that its all been done before (over and over again),...
There are a lot of things to like about this album. As a Nasum tribute, you’d be hard-pressed to find an effort better executed...
There were many bands in the 1990s who, having began as doom-infused death metal, later transitioned to melodic goth metal of one variety or...
Australia has steadily gained a reputation for mind-blowing metal (Ignivomous being a personal favorite of mine), and Abominator, formed in 1994, is certainly part...
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...
