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Nux Vomica, Portland-by-way-of-Baltimore's ever evolving crust outfit, is back with their third full length album. The self-titled effort is their first release on Relapse...
The theocracy in Saudi Arabia recently gave its penal code a revamping, ostensibly to bring the kingdom’s policies in line with those of Western...
Last year we celebrated the Collaboration/Supergroup and I was well aware that a few rather interesting ones were on their way. Still on the way,...
Aborted. Only a death metal group could get away with a band name like that, especially for almost twenty years. Death metal has made...
Heavy metal by its very nature is transgressive. The genre embraces the darkness of human nature in a way that no other musical style...
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...
Blame the internet if you’re a purist, but black metal has falling into music genres like mad for a long ass time now. You...
It’s been two years since Howard Jones left Killswitch Engage, and a year since the first recordings started, but the wait is finally over....
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...
It's a shame power metal doesn't get more respect or attention because metal fans are missing out on a lot of good releases like...
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...
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...
Lacuna Coil has generally stuck with their strengths in the mainstream with their brand of gothic metal without drifting too much into uncharted territory....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
The genres of heavy metal have been splintering ever since Iommi hit those first chords forty four years ago. Pseudo industrial hardcore christian dubstep...
Grindcore has a storied history, one which ties together otherwise disparate factions of punks and metalheads and has set the precedent for just how...
