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California's greater Bay Area has always been a hotbed for different music. The 60's had an odd hippie wave of bands with The Grateful Dead and Santana,...
Blame the internet if you’re a purist, but black metal has falling into music genres like mad for a long ass time now. You...
In the world of deathcore, there aren’t too many bands that do it for me quite like Whitechapel. The band, to me, represents all...
Place yourself in London, 1940–41, during the blitz. Bombs are crashing around you (above you if you’ve taken refuge in the tube), churches and...
Thomas Gabriel Fischer has always been a reluctant ringbearer. Though fiercely proud of his artistic legacy, he's often seemed on unsure footing when he...
It's a shame power metal doesn't get more respect or attention because metal fans are missing out on a lot of good releases like...
A profoundly weird display of blackened noise. Weird, off-putting and almost stark in its eschewing of song-structure, any evaluation of Twilight's III: Beneath Trident's...
Rhode Island is not a place you normally think of when the subject of strong metal scenes arise. Vital Remains and The Body spring to mind, but little...
My botany in college was shit and is shit in general (mostly because I never took the class), but in case you were wondering,...
What is the sound of death metal in 2014? With all of the cross-pollination that's happened over the past 10 years, it can be...
Lacuna Coil has generally stuck with their strengths in the mainstream with their brand of gothic metal without drifting too much into uncharted territory....
Death metal has morphed and grown a lot over the past thirty or so years, with plenty of bands trying to push the envelope...
Andrew W.K., with his self-help speeches and spontaneous one-man shows, is widely recognized in the mainstream media as the go-to expert when you want...
Back in 2011, Austin Lunn, the mastermind behind one-man black metal project Panopticon, was studying zymurgy in Norway to prepare for the opening of his Hammerheart...
With a name like Ass to Mouth one can't help but be called back to watching Kevin Smith's Clerks 2 where you learned that...
If you've been fortunate enough to see Gojira live, then you may already understand the intensity of watching one of the greatest live performances...
Orcultus is a band that would like to remain anonymous. So there’s your history. And yeah, that’s really it.
For a lot of people, one of the enduring attractions to heavy metal is the technical proficiency many of the genre's musicians possess. Without...
Oblation – noun \ə-ˈblā-shən, ō-\ – defined as "to make a religious offering or an offering of devotion", in this case the first new...
Across the spectrum in today's metal scene there are albums done with computers, triggers, effects, and a ton of studio tinkering, and then there...
Heavy metal music has a spirit all its own. Many bands reach for this feeling, but only some bleed it from every note they...
When one looks out across the heavy metal landscape and examines the commons threads, it's clear that the "Doom" variety of our beloved genre...
Grindcore has a storied history, one which ties together otherwise disparate factions of punks and metalheads and has set the precedent for just how...
