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Almost any discussion about black metal invariably starts by referencing bands from the second wave of the sub-genre like Mayhem, Darkthrone, Burzum, and Immortal. It's not surprising since...
Before I started listening to this album, the first thing I thought of was: "funny they gave it the name Sister, there's an old...
Recently I started reading Henry Rollins' Broken Summers and a sentence struck grossly true for myself: “All too often, contemporary music doesn't give me what...
Back in the 1980's Satan was everywhere in the United States. A confederacy of dunces consisting of law enforcement agencies, the media and pearl...
1990 called, it wants more doom! But don't worry, that's a good thing. From the streets of Dallas comes True Widow, a band known for...
Children of Bodom have never taken themselves all that seriously. For a band that is probably known to more random Youtubers for their novelty cover...
For a variety of reasons, The Black Dahlia Murder was once a pariah to many self-styled "true metalheads", who tied them to the metalcore...
The nouveau thrash movement may or may not be dead, but, regardless of how you feel about the genre's well being, Texas' Power Trip...
At one point Killing Joke were one of the most bulletproof post-punk bands around. Releasing their first single in 1978, they were right there with Wire and Gang of...
Each week on ‘Throwback Thursday’ we dust off a crucial but underrated album, without which heavy metal’s evolution would have turned out quite differently....
In 1986 a demo was recorded in about six hours by small Newcastle band for £25 (about $37). The piece was as rough as...
Suffocation are, for all intents and purposes, my death metal home base. I was weaned on the mid-90s death metal scene in New York...
Think of the new Megadeth album like this: take Endgame and add a large dose of Youthanasia and Countdown to Extinction, then mix it...
Recently, while cleaning my house, blasting Rust in Peace and playing air guitar with the vacuum cleaner hose, I began to ponder metal's rejuvenating...
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. ...
Unlike many rockers turned pop culture celebrities, Sebastian Bach isn't overexposed. This is probably because his star turns are so strange. While Bret Michaels has...
Good old stoner rock. And yeah, it’s stoner rock, because I wouldn’t say it’s heavy enough to be stoner metal. The fuzz just isn’t...
Hey! These guys named themselves after a Meshuggah album, so they must be on of those Meshuggah influenced bands! Oh, sorry, that was “ChaoSPHERE”....
Straightedge metallic hardcore punk brimming with breakdowns – who needs more of this stuff? Turns out that a well-done X-fest is surprisingly refreshing in...
