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Two years after Tierra, Xibalba return with a brief - as in 10 minutes brief - EP in the form of the three-track Diablo,...
Not many long-in-the-tooth metal bands manage to shake things up this late in their careers, but 25 years after their first album Body Count...
Heartless offers a brilliant summation of an illustrious, though youthful, career. Its shift in tone and musical ambition may alienate some of the more...
Stalking the Ghost is not the end-all or grand evolution of the doom/sludge genre, but it is a good incantation.
Overall, I like Torment, but I’m definitely not in love with it. The musicianship that is immortalized on this album is fantastic, and there...
The High Heat Licks Against Heaven blends its disparate elements into an absorbing listen, and as such makes it one of the stronger releases...
The Welsh rockers delver the stoner/sludge goods with their sophomore album.
Two Fistula records in one year? I’d say you’re too kind, 2016, but we all know that’s bullshit. But I’ll take any miniscule amount...
Black Metal is better when its weird and immersive.
It's fair to debate Lotus Thief's classification as metal, but metal's arcane soul and depth of spirit are undeniably present, and anyone with a...
What's this? Another band name that I cannot read because their music is so brutal and heavy, the name/logo has to be too?
Sorceress is a peculiarly strong album, but not heavy in any traditional sense, and Åkerfeldt often seems to have merely broadened his influences rather...
Thinka continuum between 70's almost-punk like the Runaways on one end and 90's riot grrl acts like L7 and Bikini Kill on the other,...
Brooklyn's Family, besides being one of the harder bands to search for on Google, are hands-down one of the most underrated bands in the...
A winsome collection of lilting prog and impassioned melodies, The Fall of Hearts takes us even further afield from the metal scene than usual...
At this point in time, it feels as if all directions of metal have been exhausted. But fortunately, the envelope continues to be pushed...
It would be a bit harder to believe that Opeth have been kicking around the metal scene for a full 25 years now if...
Inverloch is a relatively young project with plenty of room to move outside the shadow of its legacy. I'm just not sure which direction...
The leaders of the new wave of American heavy metal return with their crushing and heart-wrenching seventh album, Incarnate.
Aeons in Sodom tends to play more like Urgehal’s original output: very good black metal that doesn’t really do much to stand out. However,...
Witchcraft's follow-up to 2012's Legend proves these Swedish devil children are the real deal when it comes to good ol' fashioned doom metal.
Purple stands to add every bit as many classics to the band's mixtape canon as any album they've produced thus far, including the more...
