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The best music often renders genre-labels impotent. Drugs of Faith certainly grind, but they also fucking rock. This is a band doing exactly what...
By Atanamar Sunyata Flashback (eleven years) to college: sitting in a friend's apartment, drinking 40s and watching the “Over The Edge” WWF pay-per-view event. ...
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 Ben Apatoff JULIE CHRISTMAS could sing a bus schedule and make it sound compelling. On The Bad Wife, her solo debut, she roars,...
by: Noa Avior James LaBrie, you didn't continue life as a battered woman. Mike Portnoy left you for a young piece of meat but...
by James Zalucky Before saying anything else, I'll admit that I wasn't expecting very much from this album. I never really liked MONSTER MAGNET,...
By: Navjot Kaur From the metalhead to the Gaga-worshipper (or those folks who fall into the area in between), there’s something instantly "alluring" and...
Culling of Wolves is the latest from the Arizona death metal act, Knights of the Abyss. When I started playing this album, the first...
By Ben Apatoff Fear no more. Denver deathgrinders CEPHALIC CARNAGE still sound brutal on Misled by Certainty, their first album without mainstay guitarist ZAC...
by James Zalucky Blood in the Gears is the new album from southern metal act, The Showdown. The album begins with the snarl of...
We sent old-school death metal fan James Zalucky to the NY stop of the Summer Slaughter tour to get an old school fan's perspective...
By Ben Apatoff “Legend” is one of the most overused terms in music writing, but SLASH unquestionably deserves it. Don’t kid yourself into thinking...
By Ben Apatoff Everything that you could guess about BISON B.C.'s music from their name is probably true. It can shift a plodding stomp...
by: Shannon Joy Swedish metal trio, KONGH, prepare for the official US release of their progressive doom-metal masterpiece, Shadows of the Shapeless. Presented via...
By Ben Apatoff ROB ZOMBIE is one of the most creative frontmen in contemporary metal. Sonically and visually, he's reshaped alterna-metal and rock radio...
By Ben Apatoff Until the Light Takes Us, a new documentary chronicling black metal-related crimes in Norway in the early '90s, tells a fascinating...
By Ben Apatoff Shame on anyone who pronounces thrash metal to be dead. Bands like MUNICIPAL WASTE and SKELETONWITCH are fanning the neo-thrash flame...
In most movies, Manhattan is made out to be a high-fashion metropolis with everyone in black pant suits on 5th Ave and super chic...
As a visionary for NILE, KARL SANDERS re-imagined death metal as hymns of the sphinx, anthems for the pharaoh, the cover art of Powerslave...
Last weekend will be a weekend that I will never forget. Vice Magazine and Scion (the car company) teamed up to present Scion Rock...
Welcome back, Tomas Haake. It was quite impressive how natural (natural for extreme metal, anyway) the programmed drums sounded on 2005's Catch Thirtythree, but...
Black metal lyrics generally fall into three categories: (1) Satan, Satan, Satan; (2) Odin, Odin, nature; and (3) kill yourself, but not before buying...
Bullet for My Valentine are more metal than you think. They're also less metal than they think. The result is music of the most...
