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To what extent criticism of Hunter Hunt-Hendrix is justified is of much less relevance than the fact that The Ark Work seems deliberately fashioned...
A blackened death metal feel is the overall sense this album portrays. The creative foundation that is present in almost every track turns out...
By now, fans know what to expect, and that is the assurance that Taake continually manages to walk the fine line between creative expansion...
For Einherjer, one of the elder statesmen in the post-Bathory world, the rising and falling of trends is of little concern. The answer for...
Having recently witnessed Generation of Vipers live and in the flesh on their home turf, it’s still amazing and somewhat surprising to know that...
Bands like Atriarch that have managed to create some killer cuts up until now. But is their latest offering An Unending Pathway that brings...
Those in the know still get a perverse kick in being able to thrust this band upon the unsuspecting.
What is fast, melodic, technical, progressive, and still heavy? Many things actually, but none of which can compare to Earthborn Evolution, the latest discharge...
Seizures are...a lot of things. Difficult to classify but still worthy of squeezing between genres. The Dana Point, CA unit started back in 2010....
Katatonia have been in a reflective mood of late. After retooling their 2012 album Dead End Kings on last year's Dethroned and Uncrowned, the...
1349 is a perplexing creature among the fork-tongued legions of Satan's choirs. Some folks will tell you they are mind-bending visionaries, while others will...
Where certain oft-criticized bands that changed their sound drastically long ago continue to exercise the fruits of that early fan betrayal on album after...
Listening to Arizona's Take Over And Destroy is almost as fun as writing about them is challenging. How do you even begin describing a band...
When discussions are had about hotbeds of heavy metal activity in the United States, it's safe to say that Ohio is never on the...
In spite of a long, logical progression toward a distilled all-prog sound, 2011's Heritage failed to benefit from the nearly unanimous acclaim Opeth had...
2014 has been great to power metal fans so far. Edguy, Freedom Call, Iron Savior, Sonata Arctica, Gamma Ray, and Sabaton have all released...
Hailing from Minneapolis, Minnesota, Wolvhammer made waves back in 2011 with crusty black metal gem The Obsidian Plains, cementing them as rising shadows in the...
Unlike other contemporary bands who have proven willing to cuckold their more fundamentalist fans by not remaining steadfast to the locked-in-amber ethos of Norwegian...
With Arch Enemy’s new vocalist, former The Agonist vocalist Alissa White-Gluz, there was little questioning whether or not she’d be able to fill the...
Where did the good times go? High Spirits may be the answer to the question and the start of a new wave of American...
In 2011, Decibel handing Tombs the distinction of "album of the year." With Savage Gold, you'd be hard-pressed to find a more eagerly anticipated...
One of the most disappointing omissions from this year's Summer Slaughter lineup is Vancouver's oft-slept on Archspire. Having released a profile-raising sophomore album last month...
There are those who say that lumping bands into genres and sub-categories is a pointless exercise. Nevertheless, us journalists, in our efforts to proclaim...
