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Heavy metal music has a spirit all its own. Many bands reach for this feeling, but only some bleed it from every note they...
When one looks out across the heavy metal landscape and examines the commons threads, it's clear that the "Doom" variety of our beloved genre...
By 2002, True Norwegian Black Metal had become a shadow of its former self; many of the subgenre's powerhouse bands had either disbanded or...
Gorgoroth. That’s it. That’s all you really need right? You know black metal, right? Has there ever been a single shred of doubt about...
After the Burial is a band that has largely remained unchanged throughout the years in terms of their core sound- low tuned guitars that...
Ovid's Withering made a fairly large splash in the metal community early on in 2012 with their Cloud Gatherer EP, and then seemingly vanished...
There's nothing quite like an album that's pissed off. An album that is so dead set to kill that the first strikes of its...
Someone's been listening to their King Diamond. Oh, what the hell… there are so many Venom, Bathory and Celtic Frost clones flitting about – not to mention Sabbath, Slayer and even Blue Oyster...
Motörhead join AC/DC as the two go-to bands that folks mention when they're talking about a band that has essentially churned out the same album over and...
Grand Blood, the new album from Boston metal band Doomriders, represents many of the aspects of contemporary metallic hardcore. At once they manage to...
Touché Amoré is a progressive/melodic hardcore band hailing out of Los Angeles, best known for their excellent song structure and heartfelt lyricism that is...
It's fitting that the resurgence of both Death Angel and Testament coincided with dual supporting slots on the Anthrax comeback tour two years ago: both are Bay Area thrash acts...
Not often does an unknown band blow you away. Boston’s Soul Remnants did just that with their forthcoming album, Black and Blood. And the...
Elder statesmen of the Chicago metal scene, and one of the more seasoned lynchpins in American death metal period, Broken Hope emerged fully formed in 1991...
Heroism looms large in the metal pantheon. Yet as much fussing over the concept goes on, few of the genre's practitioners possess the conviction...
Recently I started reading Henry Rollins' Broken Summers and a sentence struck grossly true for myself: “All too often, contemporary music doesn't give me what...
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...
As far as metalcore goes, The Devil Wears Prada always got the nuances and specifics right. A healthy balance of clean and screamed vocals,...
Masters of everything somber, Katatonia released Dead End Kings in 2012 to solid reception. The album was much more orchestral than previous works and...
Jeff Waters and his ever-revolving door of bandmates in Annihilator are an under-appreciated entity in their genre. As the band approaches their thirtieth year, the...
Týr have long ago laid claim to their seat in the folk metal genre. In the eleven years since How Far to Asgaard, they...
Over the past decade or so Jason Newsted has been a meandering soul in the metal community. Jason played with the Canadian Prog Thrash icons...
1990 called, it wants more doom! But don't worry, that's a good thing. From the streets of Dallas comes True Widow, a band known for...
