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Last weekend will be a weekend that I will never forget. Vice Magazine and Scion (the car company) teamed up to present Scion Rock...
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...
A few summers ago, the Giraffes' self-titled breakthrough established them as one of the best new hard rock bands since Queens of the Stone...
Pitchfork Media tends to be frowned upon by much of the metal community as the spawning ground of many of the hipster trends that...
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. ...
The name Animal is apt. Two records ago, on 2003's Shut It Down, Animosity developed vertebrae, of thrash, death metal, and hardcore punk. On...
If you are a "deathcore" fan and you haven't heard of DESPISED ICON you have been living under a fucking rock. If there was...
So much black metal wants to be taken seriously; Deathspell Omega actually deserves such scrutiny. At first, this secretive French outfit seems pretentious. Long...
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...
High on Fire's Matt Pike is one of metal's most idiosyncratic guitarists. Much of his style probably comes from necessity. As the singer and only guitarist...
What is a band debut doing on Roadrunner? These days, the label seems to trade only blue chips, solely acquiring seasoned veterans with established...
It's odd that George "Corpsegrinder" Fisher, vocalist for the world's biggest death metal band, Cannibal Corpse, and pioneer of the "helicopter hair" headbanging technique,...
Most people will know Sickening Horror for drummer George Kollias, of Nile notoriety. This is good in that his work on the Greek band's full-length...
Seemingly every metal label now has an entry in the retro thrash sweepstakes; Relapse's is Dekapitator. But to the Bay Area band's credit, it...
Bands have been chipping away at Meshuggah's block for a while now, hoping to take away a piece or two to call their own. ...
What I love about PREMONITIONS OF WAY and EVERY TIME I DIE is the fact that they sound like they locked themselves in a...
I’m a total sucker for vinyls. The 7″ is one of the most underground releases you can make, and having one makes me feel...
I’ve always found it a little sad that DARK FUNERAL have put all their energy into the “all fast songs all the time” routine....
Has anyone noticed the large amount of so-called “experimental” or “art” style bands in the world of metalcore that draw heavily from their peers?...
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...
If there’s one thing I hate about my own reviews, it’s that editing one’s own work is incredibly hard. Just when I thought I...
