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by James Zalucky Before saying anything else, I'll admit that I wasn't expecting very much from this album. I never really liked MONSTER MAGNET,...
Culling of Wolves is the latest from the Arizona death metal act, Knights of the Abyss. When I started playing this album, the first...
by James Zalucky "Thrilling". "Remarkable". "Brilliant." These are the words that nearly every reviewer has been using to describe the new Iron Maiden album,...
by Graham "Gruhamed" Hartmann “Cry for help.” A single drum sounds, echoing into nothingness. Time after time it comes, foreshadowing the dark and depraved...
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: Navjot Kaur Back in the early days of Feel the Fire, when tape-trading was the way to market yourself in a glam-metal dominated...
By Ben Apatoff From the moment that "Forced to Rock" introduces Virginia tech-death upstarts ARSIS' new album with a piercing series of bended notes,...
By Ben Apatoff Call it "Deeper Colors." Approximately two years after BETWEEN THE BURIED AND ME leapt into headliner status on Colors, they've plunged...
by James Greene, Jr. The term "epic" has been bandied about with such regularity in recent years that it hardly has one drop of...
Review by James Greene, Jr. Dictionary.com defines the word “deflorate” as “past the flowering state; having shed its pollen.” That seems wickedly apropos for...
Now that hipsters, non-metal rock fans, ERIC CLAPTON's label, BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN's producer and mainstream publications have caught on, you no longer need underground metal...
No band has done more for American metal under the Bush years than LAMB OF GOD. For eight years, Virginia's finest upped the ante...
Shouldn't these guys have exhausted their formula by now? CATTLE DECAPITATION's grindcore/death metal format doesn't leave much room for growth, and they're still drilling...
Pitchfork Media tends to be frowned upon by much of the metal community as the spawning ground of many of the hipster trends that...
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...
I'm conflicted about retro thrash. As trends go, there's far worse, like metalcore, deathcore, and symphonic Hot Topic-core with token sex object keyboardists. It...
There isn't much that we can say about this band that hasn't already been said. Having sold over 100 million albums worldwide without any...
Two things jump out about Black Tide. The first is their youth: they're all under 20, and singer/guitarist Gabriel Garcia is supposedly only 15. ...
It is peculiar how two people can rock this much. Consider Black Cobra's bi-bodied brethren: The Spinanes and Mates of State (not that rocking); The...
After At the Gates, Tomas Lindberg has been busy. He's indulged his crust/grind side in Skitsystem, Lock Up, and Disfear. He's continued his work...
In the January 2008 issue of Decibel, Skeletonwitch described their sound as "Immortal beating the shit out of Metallica at a keg party." This...
So much black metal wants to be taken seriously; Deathspell Omega actually deserves such scrutiny. At first, this secretive French outfit seems pretentious. Long...
Below is the inagural edition of Crustcake Presents. Every week, renowned music blogger Crustcake will present to you an album that will sync with...
