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After two EPs Atlanta, GA's Dead in the Dirt has unleashed their first proper full length on Southern Lord Records. The band has already...
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...
Are you about to go on an adventure and you are just plum out of ideas of how to score it? Well, Scale The...
Holy hell, you guys! The metal gods heard my complaining last week. I made the mistake of bitching about not enough notable releases, and...
For a variety of reasons, The Black Dahlia Murder was once a pariah to many self-styled "true metalheads", who tied them to the metalcore...
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...
On the tenth anniversary of the release of Metallica's St. Anger, Rob remembered that I had made some off the cuff remarks that some...
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...
What is it about mid-Spring that causes so many Stoner/Doom bands to bloom? Uncle Acid & The Deadbeats, Orchid, Kadavar have all dropped in...
TesseracT has made a good name for themselves in the world of progressive metal. Alongside such bands like Periphery, and Between the Buried and...
A couple years ago, I went to go see the first (and so far only) MetalSuck Fest in NYC, and among the many highlights...
Like it or not, the two-thousand-teens are the decade of Prog. Those inclinations needn't be manifested by way of King Crimson clones – the split second...
Greetings once again all you metal nerds. This was a rough week. Rough in a sense that there was almost too much good stuff...
Listening to a new, young band like Starkill is sort of like playing a game of audio charades. Who do they most sound like?
The Ocean Collective (or just The Ocean) is not a band to be taken lightly, even if that were possible. They are musicians in...
The resurgence of that classic heavy metal sound abounds in a huge way lately, though under the guise of labels like "stoner rock" and...
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....
All in all, it's a great time to be a fan of heavy music. There are an abundance of bands out there who are...
Körkarlen, or The Phantom Carriage, was released in 1921 and directed by the father of Swedish cinema, Victor Sjöström. According to its story, the...
If you were to make a list of the most influential U.K. hardcore/punk and metal bands, you could not avoid putting Heresy on the...
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",...
Suffocation are, for all intents and purposes, my death metal home base. I was weaned on the mid-90s death metal scene in New York...
Short on technical ability, long on old school spirit, Australia's Vomitor evoke something Quorthon might have released on Black Mark had the label been around in 1987. Back-to-basics...
