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I don't think it was necessarily a surprise when Testament knocked it out of the park with 2008's The Formation of Damnation. Fans may...
Dublin, California could just be another American city with a borrowed European name, lest it not be for a band comprised of arguably some...
It's a long journey from paying tribute to being tribute-worthy oneself. It's a common pitfall among many artists: hamstringing themselves with their own sense...
In 2012, just about every new metal band clearly wants to prove to listeners that they know how to shred, blast, and groove simultaneously....
With cover art that looks like Skeletor having 'Nam flashbacks, you might be inclined to assume that Fastkill – relentlessly old school, unapologetically cheesy –...
Is there really such thing as an unlikely location for a metal band to originate these days? Process of Guilt are natives of Portugal,...
Sophomore slump has plagued countless bands, regardless of the genre. It’s always difficult to follow up an album that could have taken any number...
Unlike other old school Swedish death metal bands like Entombed and In Flames, who have frequently tweaked their musical formula in order to evolve...
The PR cycle for Psalms of the Dead comes front loaded with some unfortunate news: after five years of fronting Candlemass, singer Robert Lowe...
Dopesmoker was never gonna fly; not as an album title, not on a major label. It was actually the least of the band's worries....
Owing either to their Italian origins or a discography heretofore released on small, defunct labels or the band's own Supernatural Cat imprint – most...
Over the last decade Pelican have increasingly positioned themselves at the clean, accessible end of the post-metal spectrum, their spare, uncluttered sonority more of...
Along with American juggernauts Cannibal Corpse and Sweden's Spawn of Possession, France's Gorod have helped finish off what has been one of the best...
When you really think about it, Sweden’s Meshuggah is extreme metal’s answer to Tool. Both bands have some of the most supportive and staunch...
Five years is certainly a long time to wait in-between album releases, but when your material is as daunting, dense and brutal as Spawn...
It’s always a bummer when something with the potential to be awesome ends up being pretty mediocre. There’s certainly a lot to like about...
They may not be a stand-out band in the Death Metal world for me, but I have always appreciated Aborted’s guttural brand of blood-soaked...
Not too long ago, I went over to Double-Down Saloon to celebrate Frank’s birthday with the rest of the crew from Metal Injection and...
I would be willing to bet that the early Norwegian black metal bands didn’t anticipate their style of music to actually last for a...
People really want Stuart Dahlquist to stay doom. Breathe doom, sweat doom, shit doom. Every new album the guy puts out seems to be...
I generally try to shy away from direct band comparisons, unless the antecedents were such blatant influences that to ignore them would be to...
Does anyone still care about Anaal Nathrakh? After making waves early on with their love-it-or-hate-it blend of black and death with industrial overtones, the...
Discounting the formative, retrospectively uncharacteristic Retribution – well received at the time but juvenilia in hindsight – Obscura launched themselves to the forefront of...
