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Well, this rips. Plain and simple. It isn't the most original album around, but Year of Desolation's debut is a ferocious blend of death...
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Well, this rips. Plain and simple. It isn't the most original album around, but Year of Desolation's debut is a ferocious blend of death...
Now this is how you do Swedish melodic death metal! Imagine the hardest parts of Arch Enemy mixed with later Hypocrisy and Dark Tranquillity...
Blood Libels is the third album from French black metallers Antaeus, and it's a hell of a release. Those who enjoyed Cut Your Flesh...
Allow me to state my taxonomic understanding of the no-woman's land between metal and hardcore. When a hardcore band exhibits metallic tendencies, they're, natch,...
For some reason, the YouTube test of guitar proficiency these days is how well one can play Necrophagist songs. Well, The Faceless would wipe...
If you like Hatebreed, you'll love Born From Pain. That's the long and short of it, as well as the good and bad. The...
By now, rock 'n' roll is hardly a new influence on its twice-removed, thrice-disowned cousins, metal and hardcore punk. Entombed started "death 'n' roll"...
"Hail the holy four pillars of uncreation: sodomy, abortion, suicide, and cannibalism!" So reads the "Manifest" on Heresi's website. Heresi is one Skamfer, who...
Two weeks ago I ventured my way into the depths of the underbelly of Detroit, Harpos. For those of you not familiar with the...
When your drummer leaves your band, what do you do? When you're Savannah, GA band Kylesa, and you drink as much as they do,...
A.C.T. is probably closer to rock than metal, but open-minded folks seeking more than the newest br00tal band would do well to give it...
In American law, the doctrine of "fruit of the poisonous tree" refers to the inadmissibility of evidence obtained through illegal means. For example, if...
When it comes to '80s American thrash, the San Francisco Bay Area and New York are the first places that come to mind. However,...
When Manowar do things, they do them big. Their album covers are filled with big men with big muscles holding big swords. Their tunes...
After Coldplay's performance at 2003's MTV Music Awards, host Chris Rock said, "Wow, I hope you didn't slit your wrists to that one." He...
The first time time I heard Into Eternity, they opened for Hate Eternal on a bill heavy with growl-and-gurgle death metal bands. Imagine my...
If Sweden's Wolf had its way, Bruce Dickinson would never have joined Iron Maiden and Rob Halford would never have left Judas Priest. Over...
Okay, I know this is a little late, but whateva you are getting it now. On October 29th I saw one of the most...
I was asked to do a review for The Absence "From Your Grave" and I must say, I was very excited. I picked...
Hailing from Sweden, Crowpath are not playing anything remotely melodic nor anything along the lines of Nasumor Gadget. They are instead treading the...
Some of the Avant Garde shit coming out these days, it's hard to tell weather or not weather the group is full of musicians...
New England has produced some, actually most of, the better Metal acts to date. Bands such as Blood Has Been Shed, Unearth, Killswitch Engage,...
German metalcore gurus, Caliban, return with their lastest effort entitled "The Undying Darkness", an impressive effort at that. Seasoned in metalcore, this band actually...
