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So far, 2014 has been a banner year for great power metal releases. Sonata Arctica and Iron Savior recovered from multi-album slumps to release some of...
Everywhere you look, bands are looking to recapture that classic heavy metal sound. While many look to the originators of heavy in Ozzy-era Black...
California's greater Bay Area has always been a hotbed for different music. The 60's had an odd hippie wave of bands with The Grateful Dead and Santana,...
European power metal has a tendency towards bombast and everything-but-the-kitchen-sink production value. Bands like Blind Guardian and Sabaton build careers on creating music that's as sweeping and...
Rhode Island is not a place you normally think of when the subject of strong metal scenes arise. Vital Remains and The Body spring to mind, but little...
Deathcore is a genre of metal that, for the purist, is one of the worst sub-genres in metal, and, for the most part, it...
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...
What is the sound of death metal in 2014? With all of the cross-pollination that's happened over the past 10 years, it can be...
Death metal has morphed and grown a lot over the past thirty or so years, with plenty of bands trying to push the envelope...
Andrew W.K., with his self-help speeches and spontaneous one-man shows, is widely recognized in the mainstream media as the go-to expert when you want...
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...
The Joy of Motion is everything Weightless should have been and wasn't.
With a name like Ass to Mouth one can't help but be called back to watching Kevin Smith's Clerks 2 where you learned that...
If you've been fortunate enough to see Gojira live, then you may already understand the intensity of watching one of the greatest live performances...
For a lot of people, one of the enduring attractions to heavy metal is the technical proficiency many of the genre's musicians possess. Without...
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...
Heavy metal music has a spirit all its own. Many bands reach for this feeling, but only some bleed it from every note they...
Grindcore has a storied history, one which ties together otherwise disparate factions of punks and metalheads and has set the precedent for just how...
There is definitely something really honorable about Carnifex, in how they are fine with their label of deathcore and seem to have no problem...
There is music that is meant to comfort us, music meant to disturb us, and music meant to impale our senses with the cold...
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...
One of metal’s best kept secrets, San Francisco’s Slough Feg, has returned and the band once known as “The Lord Weird Slough Feg” isn’t any...
