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What a fitting band name. Not because Droid is one of those super-technical bands that play like they’re inhuman, but the double bass drums...
12 years into its career, Darkest Hour continues to improve. Over its past three albums, this DC band has progressed from being just another...
The contents are exactly as advertised: Metal God Essentials Vol. 1. This release collects the highlights of Rob Halford's solo career to date in...
Dreary as hell, but in a good way – Sweden's Mortuus drags the listener on a gentle descent into the abyss. After an initial...
Every once in a while, an album comes along that gives you goose bumps. 'Ashes of the Wake,' 'Spiritual Black Dimensions,"Annihilation of the Wicked'-...
Buy a neck brace. That seems to be the message that August Burns Red is trying to get across with their sophomore release Messengers....
When you ask today's metal heads who the titans of metal are, you're likely to hear names like LAMB OF GOD, DIMMU BORGIR, ARCH...
Job for a Cowboy is not at all the name one would expect for one of the most innovative and powerful up and coming...
What an album cover! An electric eye sizes up a scantily clad woman, whose hair looks freshly shampooed, and who casts two faint neon...
Deadlock is a combination of what are probably now the most nauseating ingredients in metal – nth generation melodic Swedish death metal, screamed verses, and...
N.I.L. ("Nihilism is Liberation") is N. Imperial – whose long resume includes Krieg, Nachtmystium, Twilight, Weltmacht, and Devotee – and J. Marcheski, who moonlights with...
Something good must be in Poland's water, because top-notch death/grind bands are erupting from there like fluids at a GWAR show. Thankfully, Selfmadegod Records...
Akercocke is one of the few elite metal bands with an instantly recognizable sound. Over the years, its blackened death metal has become more...
"Obscurus Advocam" and "Verbia Daemonicus" are evidently improper Latin for "Invocation of Darkness" and "Speech of the Devil." Latin is the official language of...
Katon De Pena's yowl is just as distinctive as those of '80s greats like Paul Baloff or Steve "Zetro" Souza. However, while his band...
For whatever reasons, Chris Barnes and Six Feet Under cause strong reactions in the metal community. Some have personal beef with Barnes; others deride...
Over three full-lengths and a slew of splits, Poland's Antigama have honed their simultaneously retro and futuristic take on grindcore. The latter aspect has...
Throne of Katarsis isn't for the impatient. On the Norwegian band's debut full-length, An Eternal Dark Horizon, it unfolds five songs over 55 minutes. ...
Crust punk verging on grindcore, Ale to England was originally a 7" that slipped through the cracks due to a fly-by-night label. Not only...
Ever since Martin Brändström joined Dark Tranquillity for 1999's Projector, the band has honed its now-signature sound – keyboard-driven, Gothenburg melodic death metal. Changes...
Straightedge metallic hardcore punk brimming with breakdowns – who needs more of this stuff? Turns out that a well-done X-fest is surprisingly refreshing in...
Death metal is almost 20 years old, and for having such explosive beginnings in Sweden, England, and Florida, its rate of progress has slowed...
Dokken's 1979 demo, Back in the Streets (available for free download here), is worth hearing, as it's quite unlike what the name Dokken typically...
