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In the world of deathcore, there aren’t too many bands that do it for me quite like Whitechapel. The band, to me, represents all...
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...
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...
A profoundly weird display of blackened noise. Weird, off-putting and almost stark in its eschewing of song-structure, any evaluation of Twilight's III: Beneath Trident's...
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...
My botany in college was shit and is shit in general (mostly because I never took the class), but in case you were wondering,...
Lacuna Coil has generally stuck with their strengths in the mainstream with their brand of gothic metal without drifting too much into uncharted territory....
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...
Back in 2011, Austin Lunn, the mastermind behind one-man black metal project Panopticon, was studying zymurgy in Norway to prepare for the opening of his Hammerheart...
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...
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...
Oblation – noun \ə-ˈblā-shən, ō-\ – defined as "to make a religious offering or an offering of devotion", in this case the first new...
Heavy metal music has a spirit all its own. Many bands reach for this feeling, but only some bleed it from every note they...
When one looks out across the heavy metal landscape and examines the commons threads, it's clear that the "Doom" variety of our beloved genre...
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's nothing wrong with thrashy-riffs, breakdowns and lyrics damning the pitfalls of modern society.
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...
There are plenty of politically charged heavy metal bands, but few of them are as ambitious as Avram. Avram is less a band than a...
If you were to write Hexis off based solely on the knowledge that they're yet another in a long line of blackened hardcore bands, you...
I think supergroups are so hit and miss. They have so much hype that has close to nothing to do with their actual music....
