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When a band gathers an audience from their inception, expectations get skewed in an unfair way. A hit song can be a blessing in...
In the time before time, there was a major record label that was considered the endgame for any metal band. Long before budget cutbacks,...
When the topic of quality melodic death metal is brought up in conversation (because we're all a little nerdy), Insomnium almost always come up....
Touché Amoré is a progressive/melodic hardcore band hailing out of Los Angeles, best known for their excellent song structure and heartfelt lyricism that is...
Before I started listening to this album, the first thing I thought of was: "funny they gave it the name Sister, there's an old...
I somehow missed the 2011 debut by Oslo's Beaten to Death – featuring members of Tsjuder, Insense and She Said Destroy – but I can safely rule out Dødsfest! as a sophomore...
Not often does an unknown band blow you away. Boston’s Soul Remnants did just that with their forthcoming album, Black and Blood. And the...
Just in time for a supporting slot with fellow Austinites The Sword – having already toured with that band and Clutch – Texas power trio American Sharks unleash a...
If this were indie rock it would be Altaars or Alltars or ALTRS, but seeing as how we're dealing with metal here it's still Altars, thank you very...
I really enjoyed Soulfly's 2012 album, Enslaved; so I wasn't sure whether to be really excited or a little worried that Max and Co....
Elder statesmen of the Chicago metal scene, and one of the more seasoned lynchpins in American death metal period, Broken Hope emerged fully formed in 1991...
Oranssi Pazuzu (Orange Pazuzu, in the Finnish) don’t easily fit into any particular genre, which makes their music hard to describe. Psychedelic? Yes. Bizarre?...
Conflicting ideologies seem to spurn the best possible music. The black metal and death metal scenes fought against each other back in the early...
When they landed on this planet in the 80's, no one knew what history would tell about the interstellar group of misfits know to...
On Ginnungagap, Seidr's follow up to their 2011 debut album For Winter Fire, the Louisville, Kentucky band meld the folky doom of earlier material...
Heroism looms large in the metal pantheon. Yet as much fussing over the concept goes on, few of the genre's practitioners possess the conviction...
On October 27, 2012 Devin Townsend – more specifically the Devin Townsend Project – performed a concert that was to be the most encompassing, career-spanning show...
Fates Warning have been the rock on which heavier progressive music was founded since their inception in 1982, and show no signs of slowing...
When I think of Satyricon, the first thing that comes to mind is a funny conversation I had with a rather enthusiastic and boisterous...
Josh Graham inaugurated A Storm of Light in 2007, shortly before exiting the band he helped found, Red Sparowes. Having also spent the entirety of that decade...
Recently I started reading Henry Rollins' Broken Summers and a sentence struck grossly true for myself: “All too often, contemporary music doesn't give me what...
When your last album was both an underrated sleeper and a frequent inclusion on Best of 2011 lists, expectations are understandably high for your follow up....
Earlier this year Deafheaven released Sunbather, arguably one of the most beautiful heavy metal albums ever recorded. Vasaeleth just barfed all over it. All...
