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Cynic has always been a band known for defying the confines of any particular genre. Their classic, 1993 debut Focus remains unrivaled by most...
Think of the new Megadeth album like this: take Endgame and add a large dose of Youthanasia and Countdown to Extinction, then mix it...
I’ve seen Carnifex live a couple of times, first at Summer Slaughter in 2010, and again this past spring at New England Metal and...
Upon graduating from At a Loss Recordings to Southern Lord for their third album, 2009's Chronomega, Bay Area sludge purveyors Black Cobra clearly felt...
On a cold February evening this year, I went to see Absu and Immortal play at the Gramercy Theater in NYC. Although I mainly...
Rwake have never been the type of band to look at a wheel and decide it needs reinventing. This is not a knock… music...
Time off has been good to Primus. Having seemingly fizzled out with 1999's artistically disastrous Antipop – stunt cast with such head-scratching guest appearances...
When it comes to thrash, I’m a very easy sell. So long as the songs are well made, have solid vocals, and most importantly,...
Hardcore in its myriad forms is outside of my comfort zone. It's funny, then, that I should be so comfortable with the music of...
"Time bomb… ticking away, ticking away". These lyrics from the bridge of "Earth On Hell" are surely deliberate. Faced with both the personal flame...
"If I can compare it to any other band, it would have to be Opeth, but it's different from the stuff we've done before....
People really want Stuart Dahlquist to stay doom. Breathe doom, sweat doom, shit doom. Every new album the guy puts out seems to be...
Recently, while cleaning my house, blasting Rust in Peace and playing air guitar with the vacuum cleaner hose, I began to ponder metal's rejuvenating...
What the fuck is going on in Oregon? Some of the most forward thinking yet hazy, cerebral and generally unhappy music of recent years...
While in the process of reviewing this album, I had a bit of a debate with a good friend of mine about Trivium. He...
I generally try to shy away from direct band comparisons, unless the antecedents were such blatant influences that to ignore them would be to...
As someone who has seen Decapitated twice since their last release, once with Vitek and once without, I have been very eager to hear...
When you're obligated (or just want) to listen to as much music as I do, it becomes difficult if not impossible to "memorize" a...
Blut Aus Nord walk a path of relentless evolution. If you've traveled this road with them, you're certain to have an open mind and...
When you review an album from one of your favorite bands, you're torn in a couple directions. In one sense, your passion for them...
"Evinta. A project almost 15 years in the making. An idea that has sat smoldering and never really had a reason to burn alive...
Does anyone still care about Anaal Nathrakh? After making waves early on with their love-it-or-hate-it blend of black and death with industrial overtones, the...
Lurching entreaties to rage and windswept howls of purging catharsis are two of the many pleasures offered up by Brooklyn bootstrappers Batillus. With a...
