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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...
Everywhere you look, bands are looking to recapture that classic heavy metal sound. While many look to the originators of heavy in Ozzy-era Black...
California's greater Bay Area has always been a hotbed for different music. The 60's had an odd hippie wave of bands with The Grateful Dead and Santana,...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
With most bands I listen to, I can pinpoint the exact moment when I discovered them. There is a connection to a time, or...
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....
Hammer of the Witch brutalizes a message of extreme measure, driving home the ethos of Ringworm's hometown, Cleveland, a better dead than dying philosophy.
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...
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...
