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Let's be real about this: Clutch is one of the only hard rock bands in the world worth caring about. A howling, bombed out wilderness...
Each week on ‘Throwback Thursday’ we dust off a crucial but underrated album, without which heavy metal’s evolution would have turned out quite differently....
KEN Mode have attained a whole new level of pissed off with Entrench that I wasn't even sure was possible to convey in a...
When I saw Nails at New England Metal and Hardcore Fest in 2011, I was instantly won over. They had such a raw, no...
There’s been quite the buzz around Killswitch Engage as of late, what with Howard Jones’ departure and original vocalist Jesse Leach stepping in to...
Each week on ‘Throwback Thursday’ we dust off a crucial but underrated album, without which heavy metal’s evolution would have turned out quite differently....
When you think of blast beats you're mind probably goes to something like Napalm Death or Rotten Sound nowadays. Perhaps Pig Destroyer's Prowler in...
In 1986 a demo was recorded in about six hours by small Newcastle band for £25 (about $37). The piece was as rough as...
By the turn of the century, Enslaved had produced a quartet of compelling albums, establishing themselves as reliable and unique purveyors of the blackened...
Not that I would want to subject myself to the hair-splitting involved, but if I had to give you an example of "true metal",...
It's both ironic and fitting that, while debate heats with every passing year about who is more "kvlt" in the realm of black metal,...
Shai Hulud is undeniably one of the most important bands of the last 15 years. On the front lines of metallic-hardcore, they had a...
As part of Black Metal History Month, we will be spotlighting classic albums that we feel are essential for any fan of black metal. This...
Suffocation are, for all intents and purposes, my death metal home base. I was weaned on the mid-90s death metal scene in New York...
Ancient VVisdom broke through last year when Prosthetic re-released their 2011 independent album A Godlike Inferno. Critics and punters alike found themselves enamored of the band's...
Complain and moan all you want, but a little post-hardcore here and there really isn’t that bad. It’s kind of like a palate-cleanser, or...
Overtly sinister sonic imagery requires some suspension of disbelief on my part. Either I’ll buy into a band’s bombast and bluster, or their attempts...
Short on technical ability, long on old school spirit, Australia's Vomitor evoke something Quorthon might have released on Black Mark had the label been around in 1987. Back-to-basics...
I went into this review with absolutely no knowledge of Vorum or any of their past work. Looking at the album cover, they could...
Grind has been making a comeback lately – its decline in both popularity and availability roughly traceable to Nasum's 2005 break up – and you'd...
Four years is a long time to go between albums, but when you're working from a relatively unchanging, traditionalist template it's probably not a...
As the old saying goes, "don't judge a book by its cover"; well definitely don't judge this excellent album by its lackluster, high school...
I prefer some mystery in my metal; music is always more compelling when its lineage is not immediately obvious. On their sophomore release, Vex...
