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Summoner sport a lack of unique ideas yet boast a superb affinity for a beloved template that ought to earn them more respect than...
The latest album from Sweden's long-running Pain of Salvation is worth a listen or two, even if the band has fallen a bit by...
Wrekmeister Harmonies are masters of their craft and have put together a stunning record with the dudes from Godspeed You! Black Emperor. Now to...
Surgeon are back and better than ever with an album that takes their sound to new, more epic extremes.
On their twelfth release, the group fully embraces the notion of distancing themselves from their rivals. Theories of Flight excels at both showcasing their...
At this point in time, it feels as if all directions of metal have been exhausted. But fortunately, the envelope continues to be pushed...
A) Sludge Metal B) Progressive Metal C) Post-Metal D) All of the above
Dissvarth are spacey, weird and powerful - expanding sonic platforms and forcing us to approach weird new realities.
Liturgical Black Metal of True Trinitarian Orthodoxy.
Simply considering this music to be 'appropriate for a horror movie soundtrack' would not be giving justice to the blood-boiling standards presented. The samples...
Extol is a band that needs no introduction. They've always been at the forefront of forward-thinking, truly progressive metal, and each of their albums are...
Unsacred has managed to focus their sound from their previous albums and target a mood that can't be ignored. This undeniable direction makes False...
2014 has been great to power metal fans so far. Edguy, Freedom Call, Iron Savior, Sonata Arctica, Gamma Ray, and Sabaton have all released...
A profoundly weird display of blackened noise. Weird, off-putting and almost stark in its eschewing of song-structure, any evaluation of Twilight's III: Beneath Trident's...
Fates Warning have been the rock on which heavier progressive music was founded since their inception in 1982, and show no signs of slowing...
Josh Graham inaugurated A Storm of Light in 2007, shortly before exiting the band he helped found, Red Sparowes. Having also spent the entirety of that decade...
It has been six years for Thy Light since they released new material. Now, with the release of No Morrow Shall Dawn, the duo...
A five year break is an eternity in the internet-driven world of rotisserie trends and frenetic meme turnover, but sometimes a band just need...
Overtly sinister sonic imagery requires some suspension of disbelief on my part. Either I’ll buy into a band’s bombast and bluster, or their attempts...
Venomous Maximus – debuting on LP here after an independently released EP earlier this year – are 80's metal children, to be sure, but not...
It's a retro world. That's not a value judgment, just a statement of fact. Some lament this fact as if its a permanent turn...
Woods 4 was a resplendent, sprawling and morose masterpiece. Its protagonist, ultimately, was victorious in his travails, leaving the listener in a state of...
The twin pillars of Angels of Darkness, Demons of Light represent the extended dissipation of the energy and tension first formed on 2008's The...