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Place yourself in London, 1940–41, during the blitz. Bombs are crashing around you (above you if you’ve taken refuge in the tube), churches and...
Thomas Gabriel Fischer has always been a reluctant ringbearer. Though fiercely proud of his artistic legacy, he's often seemed on unsure footing when he...
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...
Death metal has morphed and grown a lot over the past thirty or so years, with plenty of bands trying to push the envelope...
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...
Orcultus is a band that would like to remain anonymous. So there’s your history. And yeah, that’s really it.
Across the spectrum in today's metal scene there are albums done with computers, triggers, effects, and a ton of studio tinkering, and then there...
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...
Gorgoroth. That’s it. That’s all you really need right? You know black metal, right? Has there ever been a single shred of doubt about...
Fans of The Haunted have been pretty disappointed over the past six years. While the band's first four records are still holding up well...
The topic of ‘supergroup’ or ‘all-star’ band conjures some images of epic failures and some distinguished triumphs; De La Tierra being billed this way immediately...
I've never actually looked forward to the time around Valentine's Day, until 2014. If I'm giving anyone a heart-shaped box this year, that thing...
Calvaiire is a four-piece metallic hardcore band hailing out of Laval, France. And while I'm no French speaker (all the songs are in French,...
What happens when you take one dude from East of the Wall, one dude that used to be in East of the Wall and...
A few weeks ago, Southern Lord Records announced that drone giants Sunn O))) were teaming up with the musical chameleons in Ulver for a collaborative LP titled Terrestrials. At...
Ovid's Withering made a fairly large splash in the metal community early on in 2012 with their Cloud Gatherer EP, and then seemingly vanished...
Not that I have immediate bias against artists on Victory Records, because there are a few I really do like, but you pretty much...
Female fronted doom bands are all the rage these days, and for good reason. The juxtaposition of down-tuned lurching metal with soaring female vocals...
There's nothing quite like an album that's pissed off. An album that is so dead set to kill that the first strikes of its...
