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Review by James Greene, Jr. Dictionary.com defines the word “deflorate” as “past the flowering state; having shed its pollen.” That seems wickedly apropos for...
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"Defeated Sanity is one of the best in the game of absolute top-tier extremity."
Review by James Greene, Jr. Dictionary.com defines the word “deflorate” as “past the flowering state; having shed its pollen.” That seems wickedly apropos for...
Well, I've been back for about a day now and of all the places I definitely miss Amsterdam the most. Yes, the weed is...
Kicking off with a gargled bellow (that sounds like the Polish equivalent of "You wanted the best, you got the best!"), BEHEMOTH return with...
JOB FOR A COWBOY may be death metal's answer to MATISYAHU. Both victims and beneficiaries of an overwhelming amount of hype, JFAC have roped...
Two years after releasing the catchiest sludge metal album in history, BIG BUSINESS are back, this time with a guitarist. For whatever distinction they've...
(Full disclosure: HULL are bros of the MI crew. Unfortunately, their music also happens to rule.) Hullking (sorry) out of Brooklyn onto The End...
DAATH's newest album, The Concealers, has several good songs, impeccable musicianship and enough variety to consistently hold interest. It won't change your life, but...
The trailer to Majesty, the new DVD from The Black Dahlia Murder I love seeing how bands act offstage. It's one of the reasons...
Wednesday night, for the first time in my life, I shot a show where I was scared shit out of my pants while standing...
Their Georgia home base, crossover appeal, sporadic tempo changes and blend of classic rock, stoner and alternative influences may all scream the name of...
Now that hipsters, non-metal rock fans, ERIC CLAPTON's label, BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN's producer and mainstream publications have caught on, you no longer need underground metal...
In most movies, Manhattan is made out to be a high-fashion metropolis with everyone in black pant suits on 5th Ave and super chic...
As a visionary for NILE, KARL SANDERS re-imagined death metal as hymns of the sphinx, anthems for the pharaoh, the cover art of Powerslave...
Every week Whenever they feel like it, the editors of The Apparatus webzine will present a new tech album that you should do yourself...
Last weekend will be a weekend that I will never forget. Vice Magazine and Scion (the car company) teamed up to present Scion Rock...
No band has done more for American metal under the Bush years than LAMB OF GOD. For eight years, Virginia's finest upped the ante...
The last time NJ thrashers GOD FORBID checked in with a new album, it precisely the huge step forward that only a few bands...
Like any movie starring Freddy Krueger, CANNIBAL CORPSE are almost insusceptible to evaluation. Anybody who likes Cannibal Corpse is going to enjoy Evisceration Plague,...
Shouldn't these guys have exhausted their formula by now? CATTLE DECAPITATION's grindcore/death metal format doesn't leave much room for growth, and they're still drilling...
Five albums and three singers into their career, Darkane are still slipping melodies into their thrash-infested death metal. Demonic Art doesn't try anything new,...
A few summers ago, the Giraffes' self-titled breakthrough established them as one of the best new hard rock bands since Queens of the Stone...
15 years after their last studio release, a famously elusive metal metal band with an enormously influential debut has followed up. That's right, boys...
