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Horseback are one of those ephemeral one-man projects that flit about from boutique label to micro-indie with an almost defiant hide-and-go-seek mentality. Following a series...
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...
In spite of several well received tours over the past six years, a successful Carcass studio comeback was never a guaranteed proposition. With only Bill Steer...
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...
Friday night I had one of the coolest metal moments of my metal nerd life. Summer Slaughter kicked off in San Francisco and The Ocean put...
It always seems like a cop out when someone listens to metal and says, “How can you like that? I don’t even understand the...
When we posted the link for the Walk Through Exits Only album stream, you would think the response on Facebook was well…schizophrenic. It was...
As the Norsemen crossed the North Sea, they dreamt of a time when they would conquer their entire realm in an effort to please...
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...
Thrash metal is supposed to be full of politically-charged lyrics, ridiculous guitar work that requires the listener to pay attention at all times, guitar...
Are you about to go on an adventure and you are just plum out of ideas of how to score it? Well, Scale The...
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...
What rolls through my head while listening to German stoner rock trio Kadavar’s second album, Abra Kadavar? This is music to get stoned to....
So you're in the mood for some Alice in Chains, but the doomier styling of bands like Woods of Ypres has been calling your...
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...
Everyone has that band that got them into music, or into a genre. And no matter how mediocre or revolutionary that band is, you'll...
The resurgence of that classic heavy metal sound abounds in a huge way lately, though under the guise of labels like "stoner rock" and...
In the right hands, music is a life-sustaining force. On their second album, Thrawsunblat have channeled the pain of real-life tragedy and death into...
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....
If you can picture yourself sitting in the darkest space imaginable for years with nothing more than a pen to record and isolate your...
