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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...
My interest in old school death’s rebirth has wandered; more and more bands are making less and less interesting music. On Voidbound, Manipulator stanch...
Beyond Black Sabbath, traditional doom puts me to sleep. My interest in the bleak arts is only piqued by the extraordinary; Pallbearer are precisely...
“All they have is just ‘bow-nuh, bow-duh-da-dow, we-dunna-weow-nee-nuh’” Just from hearing such a sample in “Punisher”, you immediately know that Veil of Maya aren’t...
Taking his adage if not necessarily his credo from Emiliano Zapata, Matthew Widener (Cretin, Citizen) launches a new one man project in Liberteer, the flagship...
Even as a staunch supporter of Richmond’s metal titans Lamb of God, their last album Wrath simply didn’t compare to their previous releases. The...
Many of death metal's greatest moments are martial in nature. From Bolt Thrower's crushing cannonades to Amon Amarth's victorious marches, metal and war are...
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’ve seen Carnifex live a couple of times, first at Summer Slaughter in 2010, and again this past spring at New England Metal and...
Upon graduating from At a Loss Recordings to Southern Lord for their third album, 2009's Chronomega, Bay Area sludge purveyors Black Cobra clearly felt...
With Fuck the Facts, there is no point of reference. The band's fierce creativity renders metal genre taxonomy useless. Beyond grindworthy vocals, their past...
Rwake have never been the type of band to look at a wheel and decide it needs reinventing. This is not a knock… music...
"If I can compare it to any other band, it would have to be Opeth, but it's different from the stuff we've done before....
The Armageddon chord is the first novel by musician and songwriter Jeremy Wagner. In a broad sense, the book is a fun, fast-paced explosion...
People really want Stuart Dahlquist to stay doom. Breathe doom, sweat doom, shit doom. Every new album the guy puts out seems to be...
Flourishing don't play by anyone's rules. This is often a hallmark of interesting music that isn't ultimately engaging or enduring. The Sum of All...
What the fuck is going on in Oregon? Some of the most forward thinking yet hazy, cerebral and generally unhappy music of recent years...
While in the process of reviewing this album, I had a bit of a debate with a good friend of mine about Trivium. He...
As someone who has seen Decapitated twice since their last release, once with Vitek and once without, I have been very eager to hear...
Deconstruction and Ghost have certainly been some of the most anticipated records of the year for me personally, and now the wait is finally...
Ipsissimus are some funny dudes. Last Saturday at a show in Connecticut, bassist and lead vocalist Tichondrius stated proudly: We're gonna play something off our...
In “The Haunter of the Dark,” H. P. Lovecraft describes a man transfixed by a decrepit, abandoned church. “Desolation and decay hung like a...
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...
