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The PR cycle for Psalms of the Dead comes front loaded with some unfortunate news: after five years of fronting Candlemass, singer Robert Lowe...
Sweden’s Marduk has long been one of my favorite Black Metal acts. While they are rightly criticized for their overuse of blast-beats and other...
Legendary British heavy metallers Angel Witch have risen from the grave (once again) with their first studio album since 1998’s Resurrection. This new album,...
Being beaten to death is a pretty rudimentary way to go, in the context of extreme music. Norway’s Beaten To Death, however, are anything...
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...
While in the process of reviewing this album, I had a bit of a debate with a good friend of mine about Trivium. He...
Deconstruction and Ghost have certainly been some of the most anticipated records of the year for me personally, and now the wait is finally...
Nader Sadek is famous for his elaborate stage designs, sculptures, and masks. His clients have included artists like SUNN O))) and Mayhem, whom he...
The best music often renders genre-labels impotent. Drugs of Faith certainly grind, but they also fucking rock. This is a band doing exactly what...
By: Navjot Kaur Sobti Now, I’m not usually a chick who has the patience to get through most doom metal, unless it’s my bedtime,...
by Ben Apatoff Like recent SLAYER or IRON MAIDEN, every new MEGADETH release comes an inevitable wave of "return to form" and "best since...
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...
Cavalera Conspiracy is the musical reunion of brothers Max and Igor Cavalera after a decade-long estrangement. Both have moved on from their origins in...
Two things jump out about Black Tide. The first is their youth: they're all under 20, and singer/guitarist Gabriel Garcia is supposedly only 15. ...
Welcome back, Tomas Haake. It was quite impressive how natural (natural for extreme metal, anyway) the programmed drums sounded on 2005's Catch Thirtythree, but...
Ingredients for a Fortress cocktail: 1 part J.R.R. Tolkien 1 part Molson Canadian 2 parts marijuana 1 part Iron Maiden 1 part Dream Theater...
Ou·tré [oo-trey] –adjective: passing the bounds of what is usual or considered proper; unconventional; bizarre. For being supposedly extreme, death metal has become quite...
What is a band debut doing on Roadrunner? These days, the label seems to trade only blue chips, solely acquiring seasoned veterans with established...
It's odd that George "Corpsegrinder" Fisher, vocalist for the world's biggest death metal band, Cannibal Corpse, and pioneer of the "helicopter hair" headbanging technique,...
Seemingly every metal label now has an entry in the retro thrash sweepstakes; Relapse's is Dekapitator. But to the Bay Area band's credit, it...
For those new kids out there, “Wages Of Sin” was not ARCH ENEMY's first album! For you melodic metalcore kids still high on LAMB...
I’ll admit, I’m pretty open minded when it comes to being entertained by live bands. I thought it was pretty cool to see DARK...
The most famous Nintendo-core band of all (and yes, I found a slew of underground bands playing Nintendo-core back when mp3.com was still cool)...
