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From the mind of Roman Saenko comes a folk compilation of international recording artists whose goal is to bring a piece of heritage from...
Starting off as a fairly prolific crust/sludge quartet from the Pacific Northwest, Trap Them began getting a little leaner in their output as they gained popularity,...
Canada has a knack for producing strange metal. The country has birthed avant-garde proggers uneXpect, thrash weirdos Voivod and the mad genius Devin Townsend. Most would connect Norway...
I think the metal world has a negative stereotype when it comes to youth in metal. We usually see kids who own a Metallica...
One of the most disappointing omissions from this year's Summer Slaughter lineup is Vancouver's oft-slept on Archspire. Having released a profile-raising sophomore album last month...
There are those who say that lumping bands into genres and sub-categories is a pointless exercise. Nevertheless, us journalists, in our efforts to proclaim...
Perhaps it's fitting then that Agalloch's triumphant return finds the band blending the best of each album into one cohesive piece of artistic expression.
Symphonic metal is one of the most artistic subgenres of metal. I feel like there’s a certain way it needs to be done in...
So far, 2014 has been a banner year for great power metal releases. Sonata Arctica and Iron Savior recovered from multi-album slumps to release some of...
Everywhere you look, bands are looking to recapture that classic heavy metal sound. While many look to the originators of heavy in Ozzy-era Black...
It’s been two years since Howard Jones left Killswitch Engage, and a year since the first recordings started, but the wait is finally over....
European power metal has a tendency towards bombast and everything-but-the-kitchen-sink production value. Bands like Blind Guardian and Sabaton build careers on creating music that's as sweeping and...
Deathcore is a genre of metal that, for the purist, is one of the worst sub-genres in metal, and, for the most part, it...
With most bands I listen to, I can pinpoint the exact moment when I discovered them. There is a connection to a time, or...
When you follow heavy metal's many twists and turns, its sometimes easy to forget that the wellspring of its purest form was fed by...
Hammer of the Witch brutalizes a message of extreme measure, driving home the ethos of Ringworm's hometown, Cleveland, a better dead than dying philosophy.
My own journey with Louisiana's Thou kicked off after 2008's Peasant quickly established itself as one of that year's most pleasant surprises (I straight slept on the previous...
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...
The Joy of Motion is everything Weightless should have been and wasn't.
The genres of heavy metal have been splintering ever since Iommi hit those first chords forty four years ago. Pseudo industrial hardcore christian dubstep...
There is music that is meant to comfort us, music meant to disturb us, and music meant to impale our senses with the cold...
By 2002, True Norwegian Black Metal had become a shadow of its former self; many of the subgenre's powerhouse bands had either disbanded or...
