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On the tenth anniversary of the release of Metallica's St. Anger, Rob remembered that I had made some off the cuff remarks that some...
I’ll confess that I didn’t know Orphaned Land existed until Public Radio International’s The World aired a story on the band in February 2011,...
This album has gotten so much bad press that it's hard to approach with an open mind. As a huge Megadeth fan, and someone...
This week felt like both a slow week for albums and a huge week for albums. There were not that many new releases that...
The last time Kylesa took three years between records they came back with two drummers and their career high water mark up to that time, Static Tensions....
Rudiments of Mutilation. Do you even need anything beyond that? It's a title that is immediately identifiable and stands out. It's one of those...
So you're in the mood for some Alice in Chains, but the doomier styling of bands like Woods of Ypres has been calling your...
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...
There aren't many bands that maintain a consistency while constantly progressing from album to album. It seems like everyone wants to renew and reinvent...
Soak in the cover artwork long enough and you already have a pretty solid understanding of what this record is; a hazy trip through...
A couple years ago, I went to go see the first (and so far only) MetalSuck Fest in NYC, and among the many highlights...
Like it or not, the two-thousand-teens are the decade of Prog. Those inclinations needn't be manifested by way of King Crimson clones – the split second...
When you first hear a band name like Chunk! No, Captain Chunk!, you might either get the reference, or groan at yet another obtuse...
Greetings once again all you metal nerds. This was a rough week. Rough in a sense that there was almost too much good stuff...
The Ocean Collective (or just The Ocean) is not a band to be taken lightly, even if that were possible. They are musicians in...
Everyone has that band that got them into music, or into a genre. And no matter how mediocre or revolutionary that band is, you'll...
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....
The resurgence of that classic heavy metal sound abounds in a huge way lately, though under the guise of labels like "stoner rock" and...
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 the right hands, music is a life-sustaining force. On their second album, Thrawsunblat have channeled the pain of real-life tragedy and death into...
The Omega Experiment's self-titled debut has been out for a little over a year now, but the April 9 re-release on Listenable Records is...
It's hard to come up with a genre classification that Italy's Nero Di Marte easily fit into. That makes writing about the band a little...
It's somewhat disarming that, in an era where bands are forced to deliberately misspell (Pyyramids, CHVRCHES) or omit vowels (VYGR, MSTRKRFT) from their names in order...
