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I'll just come out and say it: The Oath is a nearly picture-perfect, no nonsense heavy metal album. On their debut album, The Oath...
Across the spectrum in today's metal scene there are albums done with computers, triggers, effects, and a ton of studio tinkering, and then there...
To put it simply, if nobody told me Warforged's Essence of the Land EP was a debut I would have just assumed it was written...
What makes Nemesis Divina worth repeated listening and fond waxing in articles like this one is the brilliant creativity and utterly transcendent musicality and...
Blackened death metal. Lvcifyre's style is by now an old, well-established form of extreme music with its own tropes and series of listener expectations....
I love how Caliban has rolled with some of the minor changes that metalcore has had over the years. I got into them right...
The topic of ‘supergroup’ or ‘all-star’ band conjures some images of epic failures and some distinguished triumphs; De La Tierra being billed this way immediately...
Chicago's Murmur burst onto the scene with the awesome bummer of an album, Mainlining the Lugubrious. Since then they're no less bummed but they're also insane...
Fans of early Napalm Death are going to want to listen up.
There is no band like Black Flag. And I can say that finally in present tense because they're back! Joy of fucking joys. One...
In the late 90's and early 00's, Rhapsody of Fire (simply Rhapsody at the time) were one of the undisputed heavyweight bands of power metal. There were...
Let's be frank, shall we? 23 years into the band's recorded history, there have been far more mediocre Deicide albums than truly good ones. No one...
Tres Cabrones is the second Melvins album in five months, and like its predecessor, Everybody Loves Sausages, there is a bit of stunting involved here. Whereas Sausages focused on a...
Five years between albums is a long time but when you've got a hundred other side projects that's just the way shit rolls. And...
It’s hard not to sound like a pretentious, musical snobby doucheface while reviewing a band like Pelican, but I’ll do my best. Pelican is,...
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...
Oranssi Pazuzu (Orange Pazuzu, in the Finnish) don’t easily fit into any particular genre, which makes their music hard to describe. Psychedelic? Yes. Bizarre?...
I was hoping—really hoping—that the new Inquisition album would have an even longer title than the last one did. No such luck. Also I...
On October 27, 2012 Devin Townsend – more specifically the Devin Townsend Project – performed a concert that was to be the most encompassing, career-spanning show...
Fates Warning have been the rock on which heavier progressive music was founded since their inception in 1982, and show no signs of slowing...
Josh Graham inaugurated A Storm of Light in 2007, shortly before exiting the band he helped found, Red Sparowes. Having also spent the entirety of that decade...
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...
