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Dreary as hell, but in a good way – Sweden's Mortuus drags the listener on a gentle descent into the abyss. After an initial...
Perhaps Minus the Herd refers to the hordes of bands mining chaotic metalcore now. Bands everywhere are mixing death metal, grindcore, math metal, and...
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...
Deadlock is a combination of what are probably now the most nauseating ingredients in metal – nth generation melodic Swedish death metal, screamed verses, and...
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...
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...
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...
Despite biting by hordes of metalcore imitators, Gothenburg-style melodic death metal is alive and well. On Stuck Here on Snakes Way, Finland's Omnium Gatherum...
What Gojira was last year, Hacride is this year – a French metallic missile that should detonate devastatingly across the Atlantic. Put away those...
Marty Friedman is best known as Megadeth's lead guitarist from Rust in Peace until Risk. However, his solo career, while inconsistent, has been perhaps...
In some ways, this album (and this review) is a triumph against the odds. First, Equal Vision sent this CD in a plain, unpromising...
With metal progressing and in some ways regressing back to the days of yore, when a riff could stand for itself with its intricacy...
For some reason, the YouTube test of guitar proficiency these days is how well one can play Necrophagist songs. Well, The Faceless would wipe...
By now, rock 'n' roll is hardly a new influence on its twice-removed, thrice-disowned cousins, metal and hardcore punk. Entombed started "death 'n' roll"...
A.C.T. is probably closer to rock than metal, but open-minded folks seeking more than the newest br00tal band would do well to give it...
In American law, the doctrine of "fruit of the poisonous tree" refers to the inadmissibility of evidence obtained through illegal means. For example, if...
The first time time I heard Into Eternity, they opened for Hate Eternal on a bill heavy with growl-and-gurgle death metal bands. Imagine my...
Hailing from Sweden, Crowpath are not playing anything remotely melodic nor anything along the lines of Nasumor Gadget. They are instead treading the...
Knives of Ice is easily the best death metal cd I've heard all year. I wasn't expecting much less whenI heard the mighty...
