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Topping their 2011 record Bilateral was going to be simply impossible; Leprous achieved something with that one. Instead, the band took a much different,...
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Topping their 2011 record Bilateral was going to be simply impossible; Leprous achieved something with that one. Instead, the band took a much different,...
Be'lakor's Of Breath and Bone takes a little while to grow on you. On the first few listens, it's difficult to really grasp what...
Before I start the rest of this review, let me share a little anecdote with you. I finally got to see Integrity live a...
Mouth of the Architect are sticking to their guns on Dawning with some seriously quality post-metal that presents itself naturally and without any bells...
For a variety of reasons, The Black Dahlia Murder was once a pariah to many self-styled "true metalheads", who tied them to the metalcore...
There's something unsettling about the music of Tristan Shone, a.k.a. Author & Punisher. It's hard to pinpoint, but there's a certain menace about the...
On the tenth anniversary of the release of Metallica's St. Anger, Rob remembered that I had made some off the cuff remarks that some...
The nouveau thrash movement may or may not be dead, but, regardless of how you feel about the genre's well being, Texas' Power Trip...
I’ll confess that I didn’t know Orphaned Land existed until Public Radio International’s The World aired a story on the band in February 2011,...
This album has gotten so much bad press that it's hard to approach with an open mind. As a huge Megadeth fan, and someone...
This week felt like both a slow week for albums and a huge week for albums. There were not that many new releases that...
With an artfully arranged title – Sunbather – splayed across a sunkissed gradient ranging from salmon to pink lemonade, you'd be forgiven for Deafheaven had jumped labels to...
The last time Kylesa took three years between records they came back with two drummers and their career high water mark up to that time, Static Tensions....
Six years. I still can’t believe it has been six years since Era Vulgaris was released. In some ways, this wait didn’t seem that...
Rudiments of Mutilation. Do you even need anything beyond that? It's a title that is immediately identifiable and stands out. It's one of those...
What is it about mid-Spring that causes so many Stoner/Doom bands to bloom? Uncle Acid & The Deadbeats, Orchid, Kadavar have all dropped in...
TesseracT has made a good name for themselves in the world of progressive metal. Alongside such bands like Periphery, and Between the Buried and...
With Black Gives Way to Blue, Alice in Chains proved all the faux-elitists and skeptics completely wrong. They managed to avoid the anticlimactic self-parody...
As I write this, I am eagerly awaiting Netflix to flip that switch that will give me hours of more Arrested Development. Now mind you, I...
Seth's The Howling Spirit boils down to well-written black metal without succumbing to the reverb-laden hallmarks and constant minor-chord bombardments that black metal so...
Be cautious when buying the new album from the Shining: if you are expecting a black metal opus, there may be confusion with their Swedish...
Dark Tranquillity's Construct is one of those records where the singles are a little bit a of a misrepresentation of the record. "The Science...
What rolls through my head while listening to German stoner rock trio Kadavar’s second album, Abra Kadavar? This is music to get stoned to....
