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By Ben Apatoff SON OF AURELIUS' label debut, The Farthest Reaches, is already one of the most gushed-about death metal records of the year....
By Ben Apatoff According to founding guitarist BEN WEINMAN, the title of THE DILLINGER ESCAPE PLAN's new album means "being in a situation where...
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 If Scenes from Hell is any indication, Beelzebub's lair is not pretty. Choked-sounding saxophones squeal for help, announcing the arrival of...
By Ben Apatoff Why bother reviewing a new album by SLAYER? You'll enjoy it if you liked the last few, and you'll steer clear...
by Ben Apatoff Like recent SLAYER or IRON MAIDEN, every new MEGADETH release comes an inevitable wave of "return to form" and "best since...
A few summers ago, the Giraffes' self-titled breakthrough established them as one of the best new hard rock bands since Queens of the Stone...
15 years after their last studio release, a famously elusive metal metal band with an enormously influential debut has followed up. That's right, boys...
I love death metal. Like, LOVE it. Without the glorious, blood-drenched cacophonies of Cannibal Corpse, Morbid Angel, Bolt Thrower, Obituary, and Deicide, my tender...
Pitchfork Media tends to be frowned upon by much of the metal community as the spawning ground of many of the hipster trends that...
Every week Whenever they feel like it, the editors of The Apparatus webzine will present a new tech album that you should do yourself...
Testament's The Formation of Damnation has been hotly anticipated for two reasons. First, it marks the return of lead guitarist Alex Skolnick. This resets...
Every up-and-coming metal band should watch Born in the Basement. The DVD, by original Overkill drummer Lee Kundrat (aka Rat Skates), is a metal...
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...
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...
Ingredients for a Fortress cocktail: 1 part J.R.R. Tolkien 1 part Molson Canadian 2 parts marijuana 1 part Iron Maiden 1 part Dream Theater...
Just a reminder for everyone reading these, the reviews I am posting are for the best in general, not in any particular order. In...
Severe Torture has come a long way since "Decomposing Bitch." That, um, composition graced its first record, 2000's Feasting on Blood. Essentially Cannibal Corpse...
High on Fire's Matt Pike is one of metal's most idiosyncratic guitarists. Much of his style probably comes from necessity. As the singer and only guitarist...
What is a band debut doing on Roadrunner? These days, the label seems to trade only blue chips, solely acquiring seasoned veterans with established...
Most people will know Sickening Horror for drummer George Kollias, of Nile notoriety. This is good in that his work on the Greek band's full-length...
North Carolina's Killwhitneydead are locked in a death match with California's Graf Orlock for the title of "cinema core" kings. Their M.O. is the...
I like to think that my current themes of humorous raw black metal reviews are going over well, but for all I know, everybody...
