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Fates Warning have been the rock on which heavier progressive music was founded since their inception in 1982, and show no signs of slowing...
You know how there is a four pm? Did you know there is another 4 in the morning? I'm going to introduce myself to...
Imagine a smoke filled room. The acrid air, the fogginess of vision; all the senses permeated by the thick haze. This is the essence...
It is a rare thing these days for a post-metal band to break the mold. So many bands play sludgy, lurching, epic metal that...
Born of Osiris' Tomorrow We Die Alive was going to be a difficult album to write coming off the heels of their extremely well-received...
Finnish folk metal superstars, Turisas, have recently completed their fourth full length album, Turisas2013. It is nothing like any of their previous releases. It...
Sometimes, there’s an album that takes hold of you from the very first playthrough. It could be an album you have been waiting to...
"Maturity" is a polarizing qualifier in the black metal community, straddling as it does notions of both artistic development and selling out, a hitch...
Friday night I had one of the coolest metal moments of my metal nerd life. Summer Slaughter kicked off in San Francisco and The Ocean put...
Autopsy are elders of death metal – their 1989 debut Severed Survival being preceded by few others, and founding member Chris Reifert played drums on Scream Bloody...
Congratulations! If you are reading this, you survived this weekend's Supermoon invasion. It was a little touch-and-go, as we all know, and those we...
The adjective "eldritch" has been getting thrown around a lot lately in the metal community, particularly on Facebook and Twitter status updates, so much...
There's something unsettling about the music of Tristan Shone, a.k.a. Author & Punisher. It's hard to pinpoint, but there's a certain menace about the...
I’ll confess that I didn’t know Orphaned Land existed until Public Radio International’s The World aired a story on the band in February 2011,...
This week felt like both a slow week for albums and a huge week for albums. There were not that many new releases that...
Rudiments of Mutilation. Do you even need anything beyond that? It's a title that is immediately identifiable and stands out. It's one of those...
At one point Killing Joke were one of the most bulletproof post-punk bands around. Releasing their first single in 1978, they were right there with Wire and Gang of...
Soak in the cover artwork long enough and you already have a pretty solid understanding of what this record is; a hazy trip through...
Each week on ‘Throwback Thursday’ we dust off a crucial but underrated album without which heavy metal’s evolution would have turned out quite differently....
When I saw Nails at New England Metal and Hardcore Fest in 2011, I was instantly won over. They had such a raw, no...
In 1986 a demo was recorded in about six hours by small Newcastle band for £25 (about $37). The piece was as rough as...
Not that I would want to subject myself to the hair-splitting involved, but if I had to give you an example of "true metal",...
Shai Hulud is undeniably one of the most important bands of the last 15 years. On the front lines of metallic-hardcore, they had a...
