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Perhaps Minus the Herd refers to the hordes of bands mining chaotic metalcore now. Bands everywhere are mixing death metal, grindcore, math metal, and...
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....
I know this review is about a year over due, but I felt that it was about time someone gave this band a little...
So there's been bellyaching about the production on the new Watain album. Yes, it's cleaner than on previous full-lengths Rabid Death's Curse and Casus...
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...
Except for perhaps Brazil's Violator, California's Merciless Death is the cream of today's "retro thrash" crop. It's hardly infernal overkill to say that Evil...
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...
After the demise of German black metal band Nagelfar (not to be confused with the Swedish band Naglfar), drummer Alexander von Meilenwald formed The...
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. ...
It's pompous. It's polished and perfect. The first instrumental solo is blistering, full of fleet fingering and hot bends – on keyboards. The kind...
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...
Before Behemoth became a death metal juggernaut, it played black metal. Of course, its death metal is often called "blackened," and the Polish band...
