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In the heart of every music fan there is a shrine of sound, a cache of albums that comprise our sonic comfort zone. Most...
Upon graduating from At a Loss Recordings to Southern Lord for their third album, 2009's Chronomega, Bay Area sludge purveyors Black Cobra clearly felt...
While in the process of reviewing this album, I had a bit of a debate with a good friend of mine about Trivium. He...
Lurching entreaties to rage and windswept howls of purging catharsis are two of the many pleasures offered up by Brooklyn bootstrappers Batillus. With a...
Path of Totality isn't the album I was expecting from Tombs; this is a good thing. The band enlisted John Congleton (Baroness, Explosions in...
Discounting the formative, retrospectively uncharacteristic Retribution – well received at the time but juvenilia in hindsight – Obscura launched themselves to the forefront of...
On The Parallax: Hypersleep Dialogues, Between the Buried and Me unleashes a flurry of genre-blending forms and influences to craft an enjoyable, entertaining listen....
In “The Haunter of the Dark,” H. P. Lovecraft describes a man transfixed by a decrepit, abandoned church. “Desolation and decay hung like a...
By Atanamar Sunyata As part of Black Metal History Month, we will be highlighting some of the most important black metal releases of all...
by James Zalucky On the back cover of Insecurity Notoriety, a little computer screen rendered as a skull and bones symbol is pictured with...
by James Zalucky When it comes to creativity, few bands can match the power and brilliance of AGALLOCH. Over the course of their career...
by James Zalucky Blood in the Gears is the new album from southern metal act, The Showdown. The album begins with the snarl of...
by James Zalucky When it comes to THE ACACIA STRAIN, I usually enjoy their music live rather than on record. Vincent Bennett's brutalizing growls...
In short- the album is great, go buy it, and go see the band live as soon as you can.
In the January 2008 issue of Decibel, Skeletonwitch described their sound as "Immortal beating the shit out of Metallica at a keg party." This...
What is a band debut doing on Roadrunner? These days, the label seems to trade only blue chips, solely acquiring seasoned veterans with established...
North Carolina's Killwhitneydead are locked in a death match with California's Graf Orlock for the title of "cinema core" kings. Their M.O. is the...
I’ve been into AS I LAY DYING since “Frail Words Collapse” in 2003. I think that album is a landmark in time. Not only...
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...
Ever since Martin Brändström joined Dark Tranquillity for 1999's Projector, the band has honed its now-signature sound – keyboard-driven, Gothenburg melodic death metal. Changes...
Straightedge metallic hardcore punk brimming with breakdowns – who needs more of this stuff? Turns out that a well-done X-fest is surprisingly refreshing in...
With metal progressing and in some ways regressing back to the days of yore, when a riff could stand for itself with its intricacy...
